Shipping is tremendously expensive today. As a boardgame collector myself I know this, but as a boardgame designer I have become even more aware of the figures behind the scenes. I realize from your comment that we may have to explain this further in an update to all. In short, the shipping cost you pay is calculated on 1 game. Shipping costs is a jungle of fees and regulations (in complexity on par with an Ion/SMG game actually, maybe I and Phil should make a game about it But to give you a rough breakdown of one case, Bios Origins, that you want to back, sent to the US:19 USD shipping paid-1 USD to Kickstarter as a fee-1 USD to Amazon as a fee (they take as much as KS for collecting the money)-0.5 USD per game to ship them to the warehouse from the manufacturer-1 USD per game receive/handling-23.92 USD shipping incl pick, pack, track etc (we only have this combined price information)Total: 19-27.42= -8.42So Ion/SMG 's cost is USD 8.42 more than charged, on each order of 1 Bios:Origins sent from this campaign.This is for one game. If the parcel weigh more than 2 kg, which it will if you buy any of the other two games too, the shipping cost for us will increase with 18 USD, but we keep it at 19 USD for the backer, so our cost will be 26 USD more than we charge, per such order.We are taking the loss on the shipment cost because we want to show appreciation to all who backs the game in Kickstarter. The prices of the games in themselves are also considerably lower when you back them here than our MSRP and what they cost on our web page later. This is also part of that we want to be kind to all great backers that believe in the games. But if these two ways of lowering the cost for backers is not clear, perhaps we need to communicate it more. I hope this answer made things clearer for you at least.Shipping costs were even worse in the previous campaign which really hurt Phil's business. I am, as a personal close friend of Phil's doing, whatever I can to find the best path in the shipping jungle. Any information you can share is of course welcome because my and Phil's goal is to bring as good games we can to you at a cost which is as low as possible. As always, you can email info@sierra-madre-games.com concerning this. Shipping is at the moment the most problematic area, cost wise./Jon
Buenas:La preorder del Bios Origins sigue abierta en 4 dados por 59 euros. Pero me pregunto. ¿Saldrá mas barato luego en tiendas que lo vendan de importación?Un saludo