by bakija
ras2124 wrote:
Lol. It is not a Tetris graphic, and perhaps ironically to you I am constantly getting compliments via replies and GMs about it from those in the know. :laugh:
Heh. For what it is worth, I find it pleasing and hypnotic :-)
While you can certainly play without sleeves, I think it should be clear that many people would not like such an option even if gameplay is mostly unaffected. That being said Iello also promised official sleeves to address this problem when 2nd edition was announced and we still have not seen that come to pass either.
Again, this is one of those things that likely only very few people are particularly concerned about.
King of Tokyo is a game that is, I suspect, by and large, a game that is purchased by a very wide cross section of people, and has a large audience outside of the "hard core gamer" population. Most people probably buy the base game, play it once and a while, enjoy it, but that is as far as their interaction goes with it. There certainly are people who really delve into the game, and have all the expansions and whatever, but generally speaking, I suspect that they are the minority of people who interact with King of Tokyo (I am part of a large group of gamers in a town with a lot of gamers; I know many people who have purchased and played base level King of Tokyo in either edition; I pretty sure I'm the only person I know who has, like, anything other than the basic game; the day the new Power Up was released, I went into my local game store to pick it up, and bought the first set they sold, very late into the day). I'm sure Iello likes to encourage and develop more committed gamers for King of Tokyo (see: expansions and promos and whatever), but in the end, really, it seems like the very committed King of Tokyo gamers are probably few and far between compared to people who just bought a base game and play it once and a while. And as such, that is where the focus probably needs to be.
That being said, going back to my Battle Tech example, the company never released that set of plastic tiny giant robots for individual purchase. But eventually (a few years later), they did start producing and releasing small sets of plastic tiny giant robots when, presumably, they set up production and distribution for that. I was pleased. They made, likely, good money on that (as you'd get 4 plastic tiny giant robots for, like, 10 bucks, which was a good deal relative to buying metal minis, but more expensive per miniature than you'd get the original set of robots for, even paying the $50 for the box set). It seems perfectly possible that if, for example, the Cthulhu monster pack sells well, they might very well throw in and produce a set that is stand alone Cyber Kitty and Space Penguin (with different art, to suck in the super completists), and all everyone's hopes and dreams will be realized!
Well, except, I'd still be unable to get Kraken and Cyber Bunny without shelling out for a 1st edition set. But somehow, I'd soldier on.