Kickstarter Dust Operation Babylon - La suite du naufrage...

voici donc les dernières news:

pour rappel, Dust Studio (la boite de Paolo Parente, le créateur du jeu) et Battlefront, le distributeur se disputent pour savoir qui va payer les freebies, les figs gratuites promises lors du Kickstarter.

aux dernières nouvelles DS avait proposé à BF une ristourne à 10% tandis que BF les voulait gratos car pour eux ils faisait partie de la commande qu'ils avaient passé pour les figs "standards" et donc compris dans le prix.

Les backers n'ont reçu pour l'heure qu'au mieux la vague 1 (army box Babylon + livres + anciennes références). Nous sommes en attente de la vague 2 (accessoires de jeu + nouvelles références) et des freebies.

une médiation devait avoir lieu.

ce week-end  DS a envoyé ce mail à tous les backers a qui il avait réclamé un scan du bon de livraison de BF, soit disant pour pouvoir produire les figs nécessaire car BF refusait de leur fournir...

“Dear Babylon Kickstarter Backer,
We are heartbroken to send you this message: Battlefront refuses to pay the amount due for the so called “Wave 2” of the Babylon Kickstarter campaign and therefore Dust Studio cannot deliver the items to Battlefront for distribution.
After four weeks of negotiations we still have not received a purchase order or a payment, regardless of our final and generous discount offer on the debated freebies.
During these four weeks Dust Studio has been bullied and blackmailed instead, with
Battlefront demanding the impossible from us in order for them to fulfill their obligations! They have asked us to pay them for editing and graphic design work their staff did on our rulebook, demanding a fee of over US $100,000.00.
They have requested we buy back their Dust stock — the stock that was eventually paid for to the factoring bank precisely with the revenue from the Babylon Campaign KS!
Battlefront is holding your money hostage, attempting to force us into an unbearable position and capitulate.
Please accept our apologies but we cannot accept any further humiliation. Our brand has been dragged through the mud and our reputation seriously damaged. Enough is enough!
Dust Studio has manufactured all the units listed as “Wave 2” in good faith but cannot afford nor are we willing to pay for jobs that Battlefront was never hired for in the first place, or for stock of products that have been discounted on the market for the past six months. These issues have nothing to do with the Kickstarter!
Being in breach of both our distribution and the Kickstarter agreements, Battlefront has been notified that our business relationship is officially ended.
What happens next? Why are you receiving this letter? A follow-on offer of how to receive the products you ordered will be published Sunday, May 17. In the meantime we strongly suggest that you contact your credit card company and ask for a full refund.
Please accept our most sincere apologies. And thank you for your continued patience and support.
Dust Studio Team


dans la foulée, Battlefront a publié un message sur la page du Kickstarter:


We absolutely and utterly refute the statements made by both William Yau and Paolo Parente in their letter to backers.
The wave two product has only just been completed and despite asking for the last four months what exactly has been made we have never had that information. They have simply refused to share any detailed information in trying to resolve the dispute.
We will send out a formal response to all backers early next week to not only refute this one sided propaganda but illustrate just how much these two men have chosen to leave out when claiming to be the victims in their own farce.
BF 

D’après les premières rumeurs, il semblerait donc que DS propose la semaine prochaine aux backers de "racheter" les figs qu'ils nous doivent avec l'argent que nous sommes sensés réclamer à BF, en demandant un remboursement à ce dernier.
Bref, ils comptent se servir des backers pour récupérer l'argent... mais BF a pour l'instant refusé tout remboursement.

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