On 3/27/2019 at 4:32 PM, Starbane said:

This is nothing like when destiny came out in my area. When destiny came out we got approximately 11 booster boxes and 8 of each starter for the whole area and the restock took 2 or 3 times as long to get here. That didn’t even come close to meeting demand. The store I bought from was allocated less than a third of his order.

Just by the nature of the game Destiny requires more product to both play and stay fresh. The early days of Destiny were dark days indeed.

My area received enough KeyForge product to support way more players on launch day than it did of Destiny. We had 15 at our release tournament with stock left over at the end of the day. I don’t even think my store was allocated. If it was we still had product for sale going into at least the second week.

I was talking less about the release, and more about how the game kind of died because the stuff didn’t get out there while there was still hype.

i don’t know about why their supply is going the way it is, but I do foresee dark forebodings for the game if this continues.

Feels like two different situations.

When Destiny came out, everyone felt it would be big, because it was a Star Wars game. So a lot of collectors bought in early and invested deeply, thus accounting for the lack of product. The irony is that this meant a lot less people got into Destiny early, which meant that all those hoarded Destiny boxes were of less value because they cut off the demand before it began.

With Keyforge, many people were skeptical that it would be popular. The lack of deck customization, the humourous art, the use of a new technology, and the graveyard of so many failed CCGs before it meant that a lot of retailers chose not to carry much, if at all. Thus FFG made less because one link in the chain (the retailers) misevaluated the demand. Hopefully with AoA, we'll get a supply equal to the demand.

On 3/29/2019 at 5:03 PM, TwitchyBait said:

Or they might have just bought some and used them as prize support as the playmats have been available for a while.

The thing was that you needed to order those mats right at the beginning as Premiere kits, once you missed the deadline you couldn't order more copies. So it will be interesting to see how many retailers get of the Season One/Two ones.