Gloomhaven came out and it sold well so it proved that there is a market for expensive games that play without a DM. Board game companies decided it sold well because it was expensive rather then despite of it. So now a ton of companies are making overpriced games that go in to the hundreds of dollars. I honestly have no idea why but I am never going to pay this ridiculous amount of money on a game.

So you get average games but with better miniatures, if you look at kickstarters they focus on the quality of the miniatures more then gameplay. Look at this angel hero and how cool it looks or this female pirate (all pirates are female now in all games). I for one do not care much about the miniature, if it somewhat resembling the monster we are fighting I'm ok.

Gloomhaven came out and it sold well so it proved that there is a market for expensive games that play without a DM. Board game companies decided it sold well because it was expensive rather then despite of it. So now a ton of companies are making overpriced games that go in to the hundreds of dollars. I honestly have no idea why but I am never going to pay this ridiculous amount of money on a game.

So you get average games but with better miniatures, if you look at kickstarters they focus on the quality of the miniatures more then gameplay. Look at this angel hero and how cool it looks or this female pirate (all pirates are female now in all games that have them). I for one do not care much about the miniature, if it somewhat resembling the monster we are fighting I'm ok.