Heroquest remake by Hasbro - The BIG discussion thread

[Kurgan]

Or Battlemasters (since it's on my mind)? I never saw nor tried HeroScape, but it sounds like it had a really dedicated following, and was very expandable (all good traits that HQ had as well). You stack up checkers to make terrain?

My brother and I were talking and he brought up something I should have said in that podcast, what we'd like to see finally get released... the Dwarf and Wizard quest packs (even if they weren't done, finish 'em and release 'em!). But who knows what they'll really do...

[Daedalus]

If they do release the Wizard and Dwarf Quest Packs, at least the figures should turn out better overall. Some of the originals were really sketchy.

[muscularis]

I'm sure it's been mentioned here, but I received an update on the release date from customer support at EB games in Australia, who were licensed to sell the pre-orders down here.
Originally they sent an email saying the pre-order was nearly here on the 28th of September, and that I'd be debited the balanced soon. When the balance wasn't debited from my account I contacted them and received this reply:

14/10/2021 9:19 AM
Hi
Thank you for your response.
Having looked at your email unfortunately I can see that the release date for this HeroQuest + Mythic Expansion Board Game been pushed back to December 2021.
As we were expecting to see this sooner, the reason for this being may be due to COVID-19 restrictions and manufacturing delays, ultimately pushing back the release date.
Regarding the deduction for the remaining balance , this process occurs after the release date; typically within a 48 hour timeframe.

[Kurgan]

On the one hand, it would be a pity for those of us preparing to open the box next week, on the other, we've waited this long, what's another two months? Just in time for Christmas instead of just in time for Halloween? Remember we're still planning that unboxing and they're supposedly going to show it to us (whether we'll still need the unboxing is anyone's guess after that) in three days (I won't be able to watch it live as I'll be at a wedding). Supply and other issues are around producing delays according to this recent article (Oct 6).

Here is an older article (not sure if there have been any updates) but wonder if that might have anything to do with it, Hasbro and china (also here). In the process of tracking that down I hadn't realized that the CEO actually died last week (see here).

[FainFlynn]

Hi there, I am one of the ones who agreed to do an unboxing. Can someone let us know after this Sunday's reveal if you all still want a user's unboxing? I am happy to still do it, just don't want to reinvent the wheel if they do a pretty thorough showing this Sunday.

[elvyler]

Noticed a little something in the background during the Avalon Hill presentation.

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[Leathaface79]

Yup, saw that also. Not much else was discussed, Backers will see it “very soon”, companion app is coming along with the most popular requested features, they will be looking at adding more classic expansions as well as newly designed ones and Zargon took over their Twitter and won’t give it back.

[Blayze]

Imagine being so tone-deaf that the corporate line is to apologise for a lack of communication and then tell the customer absolutely nothing.

[Leathaface79]

I would say that based on the comments today, This was a passion project that surprised Avalon Hill (Hasbro) by how well it did in the limited markets the crowd funding was available in. They have pivoted to a full blown retail release and have tried to put together a team during COVID and I can tell you, I work in Sales for a manufacturing company and we have struggled to get workers. 5 years ago the average worker made about $13/hr. and today our starting pay is $18/hr. higher skilled jobs such as painting and welding make $22 - $25/hr. Our Vendors are having the same issues and it is disrupting our supply chain causing many delays.

I don't know Avalon Hill/Hasbro's situation with launching a new product line but they may be having trouble with getting workers, maybe not, like I said, I don't know their situation but if it is anything like what I'm seeing in my industry, I can understand that they may be working with a skeleton crew and that is causing the lack of upfront marketing (customer touch) while they are hopefully focusing on getting the product launched, the upcoming expansions that based on today will be happening and also the companion app, which I for one am excited for. I have limited people in my circle that would enjoy playing heroquest and none of the ones that will would be willing to play often. I will most likely get a lot of use out of the app if it functions as advertised. I'm hoping they can have a Windows version to download as iOS and Android versions will need to be patched often and if it doesn't do well I'm sure the app will not be a priority to be updated with new OS versions.

[Kurgan]

<---that's not at you, that's at this PulseCon video! So I return from a four day event to see that their "update" on HeroQuest was a whole lot of nothing, just 4 minutes of recapping stuff we already knew, and a slight easter egg tease that there's a frozen horror poster... (design all the stuff you want, if you can't deliver it, what's the point?) Not too impressed right now, and I'm holding back most of the knee jerk rants I could be posting.

The app better not be a replacement for the physical game, even if most of the internet doesn't know those types of game versions of HQ already exist in various forms.

They're treating this like it's some hobbyist working in his basement to create something free for the fans in his spare time, rather than a serious, big budget professionally made product for a devoted fanbase (and not only them) that they actually expect to sell. Yikes... so keep waiting.

And yes, there is still a need for the unboxing, when it finally does come out, whenever that may be. If they knew it was coming out at the end of October, they would have said so in the video instead of being so vague. What are they afraid of?

I can understand them wanting to keep the public in the dark, but what about the people who paid for the product already, why the lack of transparency? If they told me "hey, we are short 10,000 hirelings in the factory, there's going to be at least a six month delay while we get more staff" at least that means something rather than "I understand it's hard to wait and we're sorry for the lack of communication, stay tuned for updates."

At least if it were somebody making a fan project in their spare time for free, they wouldn't owe anybody anything, but this is different. This could lead people to demand refunds even faster, so not very smart on their part. We didn't buy someone's "passion" we paid for a game, a tangible physical product with an expected delivery date, and we want answers or we're going to start cancelling. Prove me wrong Hasbro, prove me wrong.