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The Backer's Playing Cards Deck by Diana Voroneca (KS)
« on: October 27, 2014, 01:00:02 AM »
 

Rob Wright

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The Backer's Playing Cards Deck






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High-quality cards

Packed with grate information folly functional playing cards are printed on 310gms cardstock with a linen texture that is grate for card games and even magic tricks. Manufacturer is MPC, which is now a renown name in the games manufacturing industry.



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Re: The Backer's Playing Cards Deck by Diana Voroneca (KS)
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2014, 02:04:00 AM »
 

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Full, non-early bird price: 10 GBP (about USD$16), plus 2 GBP for shipping outside the UK.

Kinda steep, considering the deck.  The back is a near-perfect copy of the Virtuoso decks.

Keeps spelling "great" as "grate".  "Creators" as "craters".  "Do you know" instead of "Did you know".  There's more but it's like shooting ducks in a barrel and it's not simply a case of Britishisms versus Americanisms.  Your pounds sterling at work educating the United Kingdom's next generation!  She makes Jackson Robinson look like a spelling bee winner.

Advertises them as being made by a "well-known American company" - and lists MPC, a company who prints their cards in China.  Not exactly "made in the USA", is it?  At least not until the US becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of mainland China - hell, we're probably half-way there!

She states her stretch goal for printing by USPC is 200% - and in the very next paragraph states that the stretch goal is 2,500 decks pre-ordered.  So which is it?  Depending on how pledges go, they're not necessarily the same.

My opinion - too much of a novelty.  A Kickstarter project to make a deck of playing cards about making a Kickstarter project, from a woman who has never before made a Kickstarter project, though she has backed four of them.  It's like a guy writing an autobiography about a guy writing an autobiography, though he's never written anything before.
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Re: The Backer's Playing Cards Deck by Diana Voroneca (KS)
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2014, 08:45:16 AM »
 

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There are tons of typos on the project's page... but the following two are the ones that stood out for me.
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Re: The Backer's Playing Cards Deck by Diana Voroneca (KS)
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There are tons of typos on the project's page... but the following two are the ones that stood out for me.

Now...The Bakers Deck would actually interest me more...  :P
 

Re: The Backer's Playing Cards Deck by Diana Voroneca (KS)
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2014, 12:47:33 PM »
 

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The back is a near-perfect copy of the Virtuoso decks.


I thought it was a new Virtuoso at first. Wouldn't be surprised to see a DMCA soon.

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Re: The Backer's Playing Cards Deck by Diana Voroneca (KS)
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2014, 03:03:10 PM »
 

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There are tons of typos on the project's page... but the following two are the ones that stood out for me.

Now...The Bakers Deck would actually interest me more...  :P

hmmm i'll make a cake deck :P