my information is useless.

Well at Least we are now all in agreement 



The things we can prove with proper editing. I need to work for Fox news

Won't pay $15 when others paid $1.

Know that we wouldn't call you a moron here simply for having an opinion contrary to the majority.

Don is right.
We have much more sophisticated ways of belittling the opinions, of people we disagree with, here.

This is like the twelve gazillionth 8Bit deck on kickstarter. I think the number runs just under steampunk and cthulhu and just above zombies.
Yet they take a lot less effort... (ok to be fair I have seen some steam punk and zombie decks that have taken no effort)

I have to say this is not even the best of them.
Something seemed off with the cards
At first I thought it was the dull color scheme . But then when Shebhnt (that is a fun screen name to say out loud) mentioned the 3D affect, I knew he hit in something.
It is off putting since the images should be 2D the third dimension is just a thick line (not to be confused with the 5th Dimension , which was a Motown, R&B group)

people keep hinting that there is more in the box besides the cards and the letter from JJ, I highly doubt it, someone would have leaked it by now

Info on the Mystery Box

Those of us who bought the box were asked to keep this quiet by J.J Abrahms himself (or I am assuming he did, since I didn't actually bother reading the letter)
and having not opened my mystery box
I can definitively say
"There definitely MIGHT be something inside the box other than cards"

Remember you heard it here first

Bad dog!
I'm getting the spray bottle.

Speaking as someone who was trying to sell uncut sheets on Ebay recently I can answer your question as such.

Not Much

I have seen the IAOCP sheet go for as low as $25 and has high as $50 (with deck) recently

No one wanted to pay $45 for mine

Never package items for retail sale in Japan or to Japanese people in sets of four, such as a sake service set or kitchen tableware.  The word "shi" means both "four" and "death" in Japanese, though with different kanji, making it an unlucky number - even when going out socially, the Japanese will try to avoid groups of four, favoring a higher or lower number of people.  In fact, many older Japanese buildings are missing a 4th floor in much the same way as many older, taller American buildings are often missing a 13th floor.

This is also true about the number 9. Which is "Ku" which also means pain, suffering, or torture.
There are a lot of Japanese Buddhist rituals around the number 9 to ward off suffering.

"The shatterer can communicate through his sound waves"

That is an awesome power. Think of all the cool things you could do if....

Wait a minute isn't that just talking?

This year the best gift that we gave was to one of our friends who is a huge fan of Frank Herbert's "Dune"
My wife knitted a 3 ft long mini maker (baby sand worm) for him.

The best gift I ever gave was to my mother.
My mother is a Nurse. She went to nursing school at Hahnemann in Philadelphia. Back in the day seniors in nursing school would be given a cape. You may have seen old pictures of young nurses wearing capes, these were student nurses doing their intern.
Anyway
This tradition eventually faded out in most school. The senior class right before my mothers was the last class to receive these capes. Needless to say my mother was rather disappointed and never forgot it.
So one year I spent the better part of six months hunting down a nursing cape. Some how I even managed to find one from Hahnemann. I gave it to her that Christmas. Needless to say there were a lot of happy tears that year.

Anyway
There you have it.

How can you put these two decks together in battle.
It is like pitting brother against brother. This is a card civil war not battle.

These cards are a set
Making  us choose is like making us decide which ventricle of the heart we like best.

I refuse to take part in your shenanigans sir





I said "Good Day"

I completely understand what 4PM is doing here and I feel that most of the arguments and statements are quite valid.

The only thing for me is that this shows one of the huge flaws in kickstarter. There is very little investment in it for the creators. Now I am not saying this is true for everyone as some companies (not typically on the playing card side) have already spent a budget on design and prototypes. But usually for the playing card market all that is at risk for the creator is the time they spent designing, which I am sure is considered valuable to them, However should not have a monetary value unless they are doing the design of the deck as their job. (i.e. as their source of income and not in their spare time, as many designers do). In fact for many decks it is coming down to the creator only coming up with a concept and only putting the minimal amount of work into it before the campaign and then working on it while the campaign is active and much more so once the campaign is funded.
In my eyes there should be more risk for the creator. As it is now the major risk goes to the buyer and for the most part none to the creator.  this is why the number of fraud and failed successes is so high. Because creators don't risk, so if they see a chance that they will have to spend their own money at some point, they see this as taking a loss and not like investing in their project. As Lukeout said (or maybe only implied) it is the inventory after the completion of the kickstarter orders that should help on the profit.

Now I know someone will try to bring up the creator and investor example. And say the person who pledges is an investor and therefore takes that large risk on themselves as in a business scenario. With investors a creator gets rid of a portion of their risk (notice I didn't say all). However this scenario does not work for kickstarter. The people who pledge are not truthfully investors. We are pre-sales to help a project get finished. If we were investors we would expect to see some of the profits from the excess stock that is sold (like maybe a penny or two on each of the $50 decks Jackson sells).

Creators obviously can do what they like. And 4PM backing out of this project now in hopes they can run a more successful campaign next time is certainly a legitimate strategy. Many creators have done it and come up with many more pledges the next time and I hope that is what happens here as I do like these decks. But in the end the reason this happened is because they don't want to invest too much in their own project while still creating the best deck that they can that will be the most attractive on resales.