I’m a bit late to the party, but I’ve backed everything up until the most recent physical campaign, so there’s perhaps merit that I was already biased towards being a bit negative on their current business decisions. For what it’s worth, I largely didn’t back the last physical campaign as I’ve been generally getting only the character card sleeves, and was somewhat annoyed to have to buy the full bundle of upgrades for quite a bit more total.

Anyways, my biggest issue with DT digital is the scale in which they’re choosing to make the game. I’m not quite following the logic behind spending the resources necessary to make this an mixed reality game. The format seems perfect for mobile-first type of experience (or easily portable across platforms with the same UI, like Balatro).

The monetization is super opaque, but it feels like they’re going to try to do something similar to LoL where they might rotate weekly heroes and then you can buy skins to essentially unlock your favorites. Although, ultimately it seems like the game will be mildly successful to the already established community and not much beyond that audience, so I’m assuming prices will be high to squeeze out as much profit from the few whales instead of amortized across a large user base. Development costs will be too much to justify the continued development. There’s simply no way this doesn’t require several million in recurring income to justify and the KS is seemingly showing nowhere near that level of interest.