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Visit a store? Which stores have these 7 Wonders replacement cards?

Visit a store? Which stores have these 7 Wonders replacement cards?

Yes, "visit a store" is vague, I admit. Asmodee had reported that it reprinted as many Age III decks as the number of games that had a problem with miscolored Age III cards. To get these replacement decks, game stores need to request them from a distributor as the distributor will receive these decks directly from Asmodee – and while some stores might proactively do this, in other cases I imagine that you'll need to ask the store to do this for you, assuming (I suppose) you bought 7 Wonders from that store in the first place.

I haven't seen the final cards myself as I played on a preproduction copy, so I don't know how severe the problem might be.

A terrific rebuttal which appears to have completely ignored what the game is doing in other countries.

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So after being so recently being bit by the card color problem in the base game, no one thought to check the production line for the expansion for the same problem? Are these people completely asleep at the wheel?

Problems... problems... problems... with Repos products. Now can you tell me how we can get the replacement cards if we bought the game online? And what can we do when they reply that they know nothing?

Instead of asking for proof of purchase (send a miscolored card back for example) and directly sending replacements, we'll now have to persuade/beg online retails to get the replacements for us (if they care to do so).

No more Repos products for me!

Yes. This is quite the turn-off. What are those of us that received this as a gift supposed to do? We are doubly screwed. This whole "solution" really ticks me off. They really do not seem to be interested in making right with their customers. And then to have the same problem with the expansion? That wreaks of neglect.

@Tom: All our license partners have their own PDF with the Famiglia Solitaire rules and will upload them in the next day/weeks on their websites...

Just a little bit more patience :-)

Have fun with famiglia,

Henning

I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter where you got the game from, just that you have to get the replacement from an actual store. They might ask for the other cards back, to prove you have the game, but they are probably getting the replacements through their distributor. It makes it much easier to manage than sending replacement cards to ALL the people, instead they just use their normal distribution channels and have a large number for store owners to give out. Plus it gets people to the store and could encourage purchasing products, all at no cost to the store itself.

Lots of frustration voiced with the new 7 Wonders, but has anyone actually had the problem, do we know how widespread it is? The game hits shelves this week so I guess we'll know soon enough. Until then . . . . .

Oh, and for those who bought online, I truly mean no offense, but easy solutions to these kinds of issues are just part of what you lose to receive those deep discounts.

Lots of frustration voiced with the new 7 Wonders, but has anyone actually had the problem, do we know how widespread it is? The game hits shelves this week so I guess we'll know soon enough. Until then . . . . .

I actually have 7 Wonders: Leaders in hand (got it in my local store last Friday) and yes, the 3rd Age cards can be distinguished from those in the original game. It is noticeable, even when I'm shuffling the cards.



No offense, but I will take offense. I had a friend pick up 7 Wonders from Essen for one reason - the fact that Repos Production advertised that they would have extra material (it wound up being the 7 Wonders: Manneken Pis Promo) that would only available in the limited edition sold at Spiel in Essen. Of course, as we all know, it later became available through the BGG Marketplace, but no one was sure that this was going to happen beforehand. It wound up costing me a lot more money than it would have cost me to get the game in my local game store. As long as publishers put out exclusive content that a FLGS will never be able to get, there will be an incentive to order games directly from Essen.

I can't believe that, after the problems with the 2nd Printing of the base game, they screwed up again in the same way.

Sadly, this habit of Asmodee making the same error over and over again is not new. I posted about repeated printing problems with Dungeon Twister and Expansions back in 2007: