Upset That You Missed The Kickstarter For Our CIA Card Game? Pre-Order Now
from the don't-wait-too-long dept
Earlier this week our Kickstarter campaign for our adaptation of the recently declassified CIA training game, called CIA: Collect It All ended, closing out with over 500% of our target goal. Even so, we know that many people missed out on the campaign who now want to order the game as well (trust me, we've gotten your emails!). So, as we continue to get the game ready, we're now opening up a pre-order system using Celery for others to purchase the game, to be included in our list of backers when we ship out the game later this year. You can now pre-order the game right here for the next month or so until we start manufacturing the cards.
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Was that a real last chance or a James Clapper® last chance?
Also, when was manufacturing originally scheduled to begin?
Is it being delayed to collect more orders?
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We received so many requests to get in on the campaign after it ended that we opened up this other method to accept more orders until manufacturing starts.
Also, when was manufacturing originally scheduled to begin?
Nothing in the schedule has changed. We still are doing lots of design changes, filling in missing cards, playtesting, and the like, as explained in our campaign update. Manufacturing won't begin until later this summer. The project was always set up to deliver in November, and nothing in our schedule has changed. We're just opening up another avenue for pre-orders since we received so many requests.
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It was always stated that they planned to take additional orders after the Kickstarter campaign ended. Leigh Beadon may not have been aware of that.
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Hey "THAD": you accused "Blue" of doing the "Last Chance" spam,
but NOW what do you say? Is "Blue" doing this too?
You simply don't know Masnick the way I do. One CANNOT out-parody him. The few times his flailing meets with any success, he repeats endlessly. He got a little popular for advocating piracy 20 years ago, and he's STILL doing so despite "sharing" being declared illegal in every major case! He'll be pushing this CIA card game from now on, even LONG after he's dead!
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Re: Hey "THAD": you accused "Blue" of doing the "Last Chance" spam,
Blue, an intellectual, I don't know him, and he sounds like a pleasant, marvelous fellow who is quite handsome and devilishly clever, as well as always right, and in fact, it sounds like he gave out those last chances entirely out of the kindness of his heart, his regal magnanimity and generosity, serving his own self-interest, his sense of purpose in creating a better world. This can Only be accomplished by performing the same action until the World is Ready for him, and it is evidence of his Fortutide and Devotion that he continues to do so.
U+002F U+0073
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Even the sun shines on a dogs ass once in a while.
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He'll be pushing this CIA card game from now on, even LONG after he's dead!
Well... yeah. Copyright means that his corpse will hold onto it for seventy years after he passes. Which your heroes of copyright ensured, so nice going there.
Alternatively you could put it in the public domain... except that you're deathly allergic to the idea someone, somewhere might get something for "free".
You're just missing every fucking pitch, aren't you blue boy?
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Probably not. There are other FOIA'd public domain CIA board games, such as KINGPIN: the Hunt for El Chapo which is arguably a much better game than this one (at least in its original heavily redacted form)
It would be very surprising, especially after the huge success of this Collect It All card game, that KINGPIN (or one of the other FOIA'd CIA games) is not next in line.
And here's another prediction: the surplus games printed up will be offered for sale a few weeks after orders ship out and that will be the final FINAL FINAL ** FINAL ** chance to get it.
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Funny, that.
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One thing I learned a long time ago, is that whenever dealing with salesmen, never take tham at their word, especially when it comes to the word "FINAL."
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Hi blue.
Have fun eating that crow.
Also, you're fucked in the head.
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