Hey chaps,
Odd you say this as we have done some research on this, that's not to say its completely sound
have a look here:
http://gotgeniusgames.com/kickstarter-s ... ch-matter/It suggests that starting TTG campaign in January and finishing in February has the greatest chance of success, nearly 50%, where as the summer and going into Xmas time has the lowest.
Further my experience of sales to stores/distributors shows that January is an excellent sales month too.
We held off launching earlier as we knew we couldn't get everything together for an October launch so we decided to give ourselves more room and delay to January, due to a few factors, one being this research- which is duplicated on other sites- but also that we couldn't get sufficient advertising slots with BoW, we also wanted to have most of the stretch goal models made: recon, dropships, manned robots, tank killers and other types, so that we could deliver the KS promptly once we finished, plan is to have everything shipped within a 3 month window on closing the KS, to our mind too many KS's deliver far too late, further with folk being able to see the models, rather than a sketch, it would hopefully give them more confidence in vesting in the project.
Happy to discuss this further.