More info: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/54/tikal
[1] http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65244/forbidden-island
Telling us about "Wow, that KS project got 2M$ in ten minutes" is nice and often appreciated for the angle. Now making an account on HN just to advertise a board game that's missing 10K funding and has 9 days left? This is just cheap advertisement.
For the interesting bit, it's sadly pretty absent: there's no "story" to this, no angle. Just "look at my KS" and even on the KS page, no story, nothing about the creators,...
Why wouldn't you make a post on HN to try to get some extra eyeballs? It isn't like you can pay to have posts on the front page - you still need support from viewers to move it up top.
TechCrunch is a different issue. Yes, cross-posting everything here through ghost accounts is a sucky move, yet their subjects are "relevant" (when it's about tech, silicon valley life),...
And I wouldn't go as far as say "People don't post on HN for extra eyeballs", but there's a difference between a member advertising a tech product and someone who creates an account just for advertising a non-tech product. If not, what's next? Anybody here trying to sell his car?
Many reviewers have said that players who love Catan will love Relic Expedition, so I thought it seemed like a good description.
But the majority probably do not.
