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For me it's board games, and more specifically expansions. The last expansion I bought had slightly differently colored card backs than the base game, meaning y
by joombaga 7y ago
For me it's board games, and more specifically expansions. The last expansion I bought had slightly differently colored card backs than the base game, meaning you could tell if someone had expansion cards and making the expansion unusable. I had to compare them both to a friend's sets to know which was counterfeit.
- dragonwriter 7y agoOutside of the biggest major game manufacturers, that's long been a problem with legitimate board games having inconsistencies like that, for instance because different printers with slightly different process were used for different print runs of the same expansion. Its perhaps a sign of the times that counterfeits are perceived to be common enough that the natural assumption when this occurs is "counterfeit" not "QC/supply chain issues".
- joombaga 7y agoMy natural assumption was "QC/supply chain issues", because I've seen those too. In this case the designer actually posted about the issue on a forum, which was later linked by the publisher.
- cthalupa 7y agoYou might be getting counterfeit boardgames, but the slightly different colors on the cards isn't a great tell. Manufacturers are not great at getting card color to match, even for the same item, even in the same manufacturing run. I've got three kickstarters that have outstanding shipments to send out replacement cards because colors were mismatched on the backs in the very same box, and more that have already done it. I've only purchased Kingdom Death Monster expansions from the official store, and card colors are hit and miss. QC on color accuracy is pretty shitty in the popular factories used to produce boardgames, unfortunately.