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viktor_haag) wrote2008-12-12 04:03 pm
viktor_haag) wrote2008-12-12 04:03 pm
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Writhing with frustration
I feel mightily ripped off. I paid out about 20 bucks to my FLGS for the latest BatteLore supplement: "For Troll and Country". What did I get for that?
• 1 little plastic Troll figure, with a broken base (apparently a common problem)
• 1 dully printed paper map, with low contrast
No creature card. No terrain cards. No scenario booklet. All that material is printed on the map; where it's hard to read, and also not generally usable with the rest of the game.
One little plastic figure and a poster sized sheet of construction paper for twenty freaking dollars. And guess what? The poster map doesn't even fit in my freaking BattleLore game box.
I gather that this product was all Days of Wonder and not FFG: it's FFG clearing out the last of the "products" from their Days of Wonder purchase. But frankly, I don't care. This product should not have gone out the door, no matter whether it was DoW or FFG selling it. I understand that most of my frustration comes from having bought this without carefully reading reviews about it first, but it's a huge ripoff, and I'm so mad, I probably won't ever buy a BattleLore product again. What a come down from what has otherwise been a high-quality (if a bit pricey) line of games. The price hasn't changed, but the quality has gone right, straight, into the crapper.
Stand well clear.
• 1 little plastic Troll figure, with a broken base (apparently a common problem)
• 1 dully printed paper map, with low contrast
No creature card. No terrain cards. No scenario booklet. All that material is printed on the map; where it's hard to read, and also not generally usable with the rest of the game.
One little plastic figure and a poster sized sheet of construction paper for twenty freaking dollars. And guess what? The poster map doesn't even fit in my freaking BattleLore game box.
I gather that this product was all Days of Wonder and not FFG: it's FFG clearing out the last of the "products" from their Days of Wonder purchase. But frankly, I don't care. This product should not have gone out the door, no matter whether it was DoW or FFG selling it. I understand that most of my frustration comes from having bought this without carefully reading reviews about it first, but it's a huge ripoff, and I'm so mad, I probably won't ever buy a BattleLore product again. What a come down from what has otherwise been a high-quality (if a bit pricey) line of games. The price hasn't changed, but the quality has gone right, straight, into the crapper.
Stand well clear.
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"For Troll and Country" sounds craptastic. Thanks for the warning.
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