Why does MONEYFORK cost 70€ (Early Bird) or 100€?
I get this question a lot, and the honest answer isn't a marketing trick.
Look at what's in the box: 272 cards. 12 block cards with a dry-erase surface for the physical blockchain. 6 player boards, also writable. A foldable world map, 600×400mm, dry-erase front. 186 tokens. 2 dice. 2 whiteboard markers. 3 booklets.
For comparison: strategy games with this component count typically retail for 50-70€. On Kickstarter, with special components like dry-erase coating, comparable projects often land higher.
Two things most people overlook:
First: about 27% of every euro pledged through Kickstarter disappears immediately — platform fee, payment processing, German VAT. Before a single card gets printed.
Second: the first production run is 500 units. That's not mass production. I'm not a big publisher ordering 20 or 50k units and driving the per-unit cost down. Small batches mean higher per-unit costs — that's basic economics of scale, not padding.
So MONEYFORK at 70€ isn't inflated. It's the real cost of a full-scope strategy game, produced in a small batch, under actual Kickstarter conditions.
Standard price after: 100€.
🔗 kickstarter.com/projects/julianorangepillug/moneyfork-bitcoin-strategiespiel
I get this question a lot, and the honest answer isn't a marketing trick.
Look at what's in the box: 272 cards. 12 block cards with a dry-erase surface for the physical blockchain. 6 player boards, also writable. A foldable world map, 600×400mm, dry-erase front. 186 tokens. 2 dice. 2 whiteboard markers. 3 booklets.
For comparison: strategy games with this component count typically retail for 50-70€. On Kickstarter, with special components like dry-erase coating, comparable projects often land higher.
Two things most people overlook:
First: about 27% of every euro pledged through Kickstarter disappears immediately — platform fee, payment processing, German VAT. Before a single card gets printed.
Second: the first production run is 500 units. That's not mass production. I'm not a big publisher ordering 20 or 50k units and driving the per-unit cost down. Small batches mean higher per-unit costs — that's basic economics of scale, not padding.
So MONEYFORK at 70€ isn't inflated. It's the real cost of a full-scope strategy game, produced in a small batch, under actual Kickstarter conditions.
Standard price after: 100€.
🔗 kickstarter.com/projects/julianorangepillug/moneyfork-bitcoin-strategiespiel
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