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JoeJoeBinks wrote: ↑12 August 2024, 21:53

Rythos wrote: ↑12 August 2024, 07:41 Ok buddy XD. I get that this news might be disappointing, but publishers are allowed to distribute their games as they choose. It's not as though there's been some sort of betrayal here.

I found the Keymaster plant!


Kidding. We know but we can still be disappointed and react accordingly.

Absolutely!

Disappointment: Reasonable
Reconsidering personal value of BGA subscription: Reasonable
Angry boycott of publisher: naaaah

I heard back from Keymaster today...

Thanks for sharing your feedback with us. We love having Parks available on Board Game Arena, and it's awesome to know that it is how you discovered our games! We are definitely planning for a future full of hiking there, and although we did need to take Parks down for a bit, be sure to keep an eye on the horizon for what's to come! Thanks for your understanding, and please pardon our dust for any interrupted hikes.

Looks like we might be back on the trail soon!

I received too, a couple of hours ago, a similar answer to the e-mail that I sent them:
This is what the Keymaster support wrote me:

Thanks for sharing your feedback with us. We love having Parks available on Board Game Arena, and we are planning for a future full of hiking there. Though we did need to take it down for a bit, be sure to keep an eye on the horizon for what's to come! Thanks for your understanding, and ask that you please pardon our dust for any interrupted hikes.

It seems that Parks will come back, in the future! Let's hope so.

Rythos wrote: ↑12 August 2024, 07:41

_Mister_Iks wrote: ↑09 August 2024, 07:51...Keymaster whose games I will NOT buy anymore in protest

Ok buddy XD. I get that this news might be disappointing, but publishers are allowed to distribute their games as they choose. It's not as though there's been some sort of betrayal here.

And we are allowed to react to their anti consumer decisions as we choose. I have now cancelled my plans to buy both this game and the roll and write until the BGA implementation is returned.

Wylie28 wrote: ↑14 August 2024, 00:22And we are allowed to react to their anti consumer decisions as we choose.

Therein lies the problem.

PARKS developer here... Keymaster has been in contact with us about the situation. I don't want to speak on their behalf, but I will say that it wasn't a "decision" they made, anti-consumer or otherwise. Likewise, BGA didn't make a "decision" to pull the game, either.

Keymaster has done a great job with PARKS and they've already responded to individual inquiries communicating their plans to get things up and running again. In my book, they're very pro-consumer.

Hoping for the game to return! Thanks to anyone working towards that

What's the physical/digital licence status for this one?
Could it be that the licence went to another publisher, who didn't want to allow digital implementation ?

JoeJoeBinks wrote: ↑13 August 2024, 20:44 I heard back from Keymaster today...

Thanks for sharing your feedback with us. We love having Parks available on Board Game Arena, and it's awesome to know that it is how you discovered our games! We are definitely planning for a future full of hiking there, and although we did need to take Parks down for a bit, be sure to keep an eye on the horizon for what's to come! Thanks for your understanding, and please pardon our dust for any interrupted hikes.

Hello,
I received exactly the same answer word for word.

Kayvon wrote: ↑14 August 2024, 00:28 Keymaster has done a great job with PARKS and they've already responded to individual inquiries communicating their plans to get things up and running again. In my book, they're very pro-consumer.

Thanks, Kayvon! And also thank you for such an awesome implementation of PARKS. It sounds like there is some other entity at work here. I’m speculating, but I would bet it has something to do with the amazing artwork in the game, as has been discussed by others. The book that comes with the game credits dozens of artists for what they used in the game. I’m sure it would only take one of them to have a problem for things to get messy.

Are there any updates?