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Thanks for the reply, Aarik. So at this stage, you cannot guarantee EU friendly shipping, you can only say that you'll try your best to make it happen. In other words, it's still an IF, not a WHEN...

No comment from Obsidian?

Well, I can live with that if they offer us the option to reduce our pledge from physical to digital-only lateron, if they fail to provide an EU friendly shipping option... As I said. I've been burned one too many times by this kind of thing already...

Agreed, it's a bit worrying that "we are going to work on..." and later statements sound a lot less sure than the innitial Feb. 4 statement. So it would still be good if Feargus could provide some up-to-date info here...

Yeah, I hadn't read that "we WILL be distributing from within the EU" comment yet (searching in the Fig comments section is horrible), that sounds pretty definitive. All the other comments (some of which I had read) sound more like "we will TRY to find a partner to ship from within the EU, and IF we find one, it shouldn't be a problem".

If the items are shipped from Paradox in Sweden, that would be perfect. But I've been burned one time too many by other Kickstarter to just take it on faith, so I would like an official statement from Obsidian on this. If they already had a solution in place for the first one, and are planning to use that same approach for this one, then that would be perfect...

As Paradox store doesn't give out GoG keys, those coupons are useless to me anyway. I'll wait until the game is on sale on GoG and buy it there..

Okay, this will be my last attempt to get a response from Obsidian on this, as all previous posts (by me and a few friends) on the Fig page, during streaming sessions, and during a Reddit AMA, were ignored and remained unanswered. I am located in Europe. Right now I have pledged all-digital. I would gladly upgrade my pledge to include a physical box (such as the Collector's Edition), but only if I could get some kind of guarantee from Obsidian that they will ship the physical items "EU friendly". Which means, either (best scenario) ship them from within the EU, in which case we (the pledgers) won't have to worry about additional taxes and administrative charges at all, or, failing that, at least pre-pay the taxes for us, and include a customs clearance document that clearly states that taxes are pre-paid (which is the way that eg Amazon US does it). In the latter case, you can charge those taxes to us, but at least we won't have to worry about the additional administrative charges... having to pay both the import taxes AND the administrative charges, simply adds too much to the tiers, making them uninteresting for us EU backers. Please Obsidian, can you let us know what we Europeans can expect when we pledge for a physical tier? Because I know there are several people, like me, that have been hesitant to increase their all-digital pledge to a physical one because of this. A good answer to this could give the campaign a much-needed boost towards the next stretch goal... See also: https://stonemaiergames.com/kickstarter-lesson-47-this-project-is-eu-friendly/