Heroquest remake by Hasbro - The BIG discussion thread

[whitebeard]

Just released this pic of the minis:

Well... At this point I'm not interested in the miniatures anymore. Lots of other great stuff in there. New cards, missing tiles, quest books. But if I can change my shipping address I would gladly sell my deluxe version at cost to someone who wants it.

[Kurgan]

Just released this pic of the minis:

Well... At this point I'm not interested in the miniatures anymore. Lots of other great stuff in there. New cards, missing tiles, quest books. But if I can change my shipping address I would gladly sell my deluxe version at cost to someone who wants it.

Are you going to participate in the forum unboxing? If not, you have 90 days to return it from receipt (unopened). Then again I'm sure there's somebody on the forums who would be interested, rather than paying a scalper 3-4x the price.

Just released this pic of the minis:

They look delicious... I like the cherry ones the best.

Seriously though the holder looks like the type of thing you'd have Christmas candy in, it will get broken up with much use (meant as throw away, rather than permanent storage). Yeah, still the sharp cornered beta looking dice. The Green minis have some kind of residue on them. The lightning looks off, so yes, the "yellow" minis looks white.

There is a GREY mini in there, the Chaos, I mean Dread Sorcerer, to the left of the Green figures.

[j_dean80]

Those minis look so cheap and generic-made. The colors are very bad.

[cornixt]

Just released this pic of the minis:

This looks like the minis are being packed into trays, pre-assembled (they do look to need assembly…) Interesting. I wouldn't have expected that.

That's a feature of CMON games, so they may be using the same manufacturer. If it is, then the miniatures are going to be good casts with lots of detail, with a hard but bendy material. I've painted up most of my Rising Sun set and the paint sticks well.

[Kurgan]

Don't get me wrong I'm glad they're using the colors rather than making them all the same gray (or beige). I'm expecting reaper bones level of bendiness, and they've shown examples painted (but not he process... reapers are easy to hand paint, I don't have an airbrush).

It seems very little has changed since the fundraiser ended. Other than the disappointing dice demos (why didn't they just use the dice demos those random youtubers got as "samples"?) and one or two pieces of card art, we haven't seen anything new in terms of content, just the physical version of the digital mock-up.

I want to see text for stuff we haven't seen before, but I'm guessing they're saving that till last (if they reveal it at all prior to delivery) since it will be the easiest to change before it hits the printers.

[Shadzar]

Other than the disappointing dice demos (why didn't they just use the dice demos those random youtubers got as "samples"?)

That has been answered.

https://twitter.com/heroquest/status/1403355874299686912

I PREFER DICE WITH CORNERS SO THEY CAN DOUBLE AS CALTROPS

Bait & Switch

[Kurgan]

Guess that German Guy is getting more business after all in that case...


Hasbro, why are you so cheap? If he can afford rounded dice, so can you! Nothing but the best for evil overlords, not cutting corners to be an IRL corporate villian through annoyance.

[Shadzar]

Hasbro, why are you so cheap? If he can afford rounded dice, so can you! Nothing but the best for evil overlords, not cutting corners to be an IRL corporate villian through annoyance.

Now this says a lot when, and no offense meant K, but a HQ 2020 apologist is showing anger emotes in their posts over things.

I wonder what other bait & switch will occur under the guise of

Digital concepts shown. Actual product may vary.

Kurgan has been the most supportive of.. well everything shown since the beginning and now even he is not happy with silly changes being made.

HASBRO you still have time to fix this and find the marketing company that sent out those rounded dice and the painted dwarf prototype and fix these dice before it gets too late.

Look at every other die offered on the market in the past 30 years and none but the cheapest Chinese crap is sharp corners, or casino dice that require them.

So if you stop trying to play "D&D" while making HQ and "roleplay" on Twitter, then you might have a chance at not looking like a fool, HASBRO.
(and I know for a fact HASBRO is aware of this thread and the YouTube videos made about the new HeroQuest)

[Edge]

I want high quality, rounded dice, too. But if someone at Hasbro is monitoring this forum, I don’t think hyper-aggressive negativity is the way to get what we want. It keeps coming up, so there’s no way they aren’t aware of it. It’s good to keep pointing out, “This is a thing we care about. This is a part of the brand for me. This matters to my HeroQuest experience.” They might actually hear that. If you start with accusations and end with, “You fools!”, your message is likely to be completely ignored, if not resentfully dismissed.

I actually want to get the dice. Please don’t make it easy for them to not care what we want.

Also, the Twitter engagement you’re mocking is fun. Some jokes land better than others, and there’s not any really substantive new information yet. It also has been less than a week since “Zargon took over”. There is daily interaction so far and a noticeable breath of fresh air. Someone has decided to make real effort to connect, to build community. To lighten the mood. A corporate PR campaign isn’t likely to overtly address a self-created problem like the lack of communication since the funding campaign, but Zargon’s tone seems, to me, to be a clear attempt to redress this situation.

We’ll see. If a few weeks go by and we’re still not getting higher res photos and more substantive details about lore, gameplay, and whether backers are going to get those final two unlocks and the Tomb dice box; I’ll go back to being more skeptical, too. At the moment, though, it looks like they’re making real effort to turn a corner. Let’s give them a chance?

[Shadzar]

I want high quality, rounded dice, too. But if someone at Hasbro is monitoring this forum, I don’t think hyper-aggressive negativity is the way to get what we want. It keeps coming up, so there’s no way they aren’t aware of it. It’s good to keep pointing out, “This is a thing we care about. This is a part of the brand for me. This matters to my HeroQuest experience.” They might actually hear that. If you start with accusations and end with, “You fools!”, your message is likely to be completely ignored, if not resentfully dismissed.

If HASBRO can't handle being called foolish for their decisions, then:

1. They shouldn't be in business to sell products to the public as customers don't have to agree with their every decision, and this is a case they took the money first and changed later, after mailing our dice that looked like what everyone wanted.

2. HASBRO shouldn't have called people racists and bigots last year, if they don't like name calling.

the minis colr chang was in response to Youtube complaining all the minis are grey. HASBRO has allowed this palc to exist for 20+ years, and it wodl be foolish of them to not know what goes on here since they decided to re-release HeroQuest.

HASBRO doesn't have a palce to say anything to them, no real customer support, only glorified secretaries reading off teleprompters with canned scripts.

We all want god product, that is what we thought we are paying for, but there is really no place else to inform or voice our opinions without being forced to... get a Twitter account? HASBRO is now run by Jack Dorsey?

I prefer to discuss HQ in a place for HQ, not filled with raving lunatics, and this is the ONLY place on the net that has been about HQ for its ear entirety of its absence form the marketplace. The HASLabs Q&A for HeroQuest proved Mark Twain correct

It is better to keep your motuh shut and let everyone think you a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.

When they had no answers for anything not even the direction they were going with the game, and have since provided none either and only want to play games. Customers can play games also. Does HASBRO want mass refunds? Can they handle the revenue loss after the damage Disney Star Wars has done? Will HASBRO end up a subdivision of WotC? Do they think the MtG failures recently and changes, as well the D&D changes will make for any future revenue streams?

...No, I will not go quietly into the night...

Each new bit of information is putting more an more people off their purchases, and the delay in information isn't helping HASBRO's case at all for the world's largest toy manufacturer to be this tight lipped and slow.

We can also see evidence of other problems from the "Summer of Lore" for D&D being changed to "Lore Week" before summer even gets here... so what other changes are there going to be?

When you take $4 million of people's money, they have a right to expect something of value in return.



EDIT: oh and if the twitter "jokes" came with updates to the website that was last updated in 2020/oct/21 then maybe it would be less concern for people what they are doing on Twitter, but they have neglected that entire site for 8 months.

https://heroquest.avalonhill.com/en-us