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Actually, the KS cash has been sitting in our account more or less untouched since the day Kickstarter transferred it to us. We've pretty much agreed that paying out salaries this early is a waste (we rather use the funds to create to more MJOLNIRs, which we can sell and generate revenue for future THOR ZONE projects).


Everyone on the team works in programming/consulting fields, so not much has changed for us since this outbreak started (apart from that we work at home).


The 2nd launch is there for 3 reasons:

  • Commercial release has been delayed by the virus, but there is a lot of new interest (email list has doubled). We might as well do a short order-window before production rather than after.
  • We have 570 cases to produce, which means that we only need 570 of certain parts (e.g. power cable). Some parts have MOQ of 1000 pcs, and although we can pay the difference from the profit, this creates more risk because profit = emergency funds. If the 2nd launch brings us closer to 1000 cases, we'll not need to use any emergency funds from the get go.
  • Convenient time-slot to get those Booster Cell orders going (or Pokeboll as you noted ?).


As always, happy to discuss anything with you guys ? Now let's hope that things return to normal soon so that we can finally get going!