PSVITA Digital codes and Shipping Updates!
almost 3 years ago
– Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 03:03:22 PM
Hello everyone! As everyone should be aware, we have begun to fulfill our physical backer rewards, but as several global issues have heavily effected both manufacturing and shipping we are sending things out as soon as we are able to do so. We have completed ALL PSVita only Europe North America and South America region orders.
If you have not received an email from Easyship about your order mailing out, it is for one of the following reasons;
- - Your order contains some other physical item we have not received yet. These include Nintendo Switch copies, PS4 copies, PC copies, CE boxes, OSTs, standees, mousepads, and posters. We are unable to split orders and ship items seperately, so once we get all the things we need for your order it will be shipped out quickly! We will go over what we are waiting for and when we expect it below.
- PS4 physicals - in production currently, we expect these to arrive to us late spring/summer at the latest.
- Switch physicals - in production, we had hoped they would be complete this month, but we may have been too hasty. Once we get an update from the manufacturer we'll let everyone know.
- PC copies - on the way! We should receive them by May 1.
- CE Boxes - they have safely arrived and are waiting to be packed!
- OSTs - Arrived today!
- artbooks - arrived sunday!
- Posters - delivery scheduled for tomorrow!
- poster tubes (for protecting the posters) - have been shipped but appear to be stuck in California, we hope to have this sorted soon.
- Standees - Arrived and waiting to be sent out!
- mousepads - arrived with the standees!
- IMPORTANT- If your order is from the ASIA or AUS shipping regions.
Due to the far higher than normal rates, and incredibly long courier times we are presently holding off on shipping these out until we find a reliable and speedy courier we can afford. The Suez Canal issue and pandemic related changes have made things very difficult to work out for us as first time shippers. We had originally intended on having these packages sent out from Hong Kong, but the costs, risks and delays associated with getting our products back to Hong Kong from the US proved to be too high on all fronts. We have found a solution though, and are planning on shipping these out ourselves from here in Texas as soon as we can.
- IMPORTANT-If your order had an error or was canceled for some reason
To be clear, If you received an email from Easyship stating that your package label was created, that means we have prepared the box or envelope for a pickup by the USPS or DHL. I have a schedule set up for pickups on wednesday of each week that we have items to ship out. This gives me time to prepare for large groups of orders to go out together, and allows me to try to reschedule a delivery if the ever reliable and trustworthy US postal service decides to skip our scheduled pick up time. (DHL is amazing though) IF, and it is very likely, the USPS skips 3 days of scheduled pickups I will be taking the boxes to the post office on Saturday morning of that same week. So just keep checking your easyship tracking for that "package received by USPS/DHL/UPS" note!
If you are unsure about your order status please feel free to DM me via the "message the creator" button here, or send an email to [email protected]. I will do my best to help you out as best I can.
That brings me to the other news! Thanks to Top Hat Studios we've finally secured a release date for the digital version of Sense for PSVITA. On April 27th, Sense will be available for download from the PSN store (NA only at this time - from what we understand they are in contact with Sony regarding Vita; complications stemming from old, deprecated PEGI-related tools for Vita releases and them not being an EU company) on your PSVITA! That means that if you backed for a digital Vita copy, you will get it on or around April 27th in an email from Backerkit. If you don't receive that email by, say May 1, please send me a DM or email and I'll check on your order and manually send you your code.
As we've discussed before, the Vita version does have flaws and is unfortunately not the best version of Sense, despite being playable beginning to end and including all the same content. The road for Vita development was hard, and it was accentuated by even more unfortunate unclear deadlines, shortened timelines, and increasingly deprecated backends and SDK tools. However, we're still broad to be shipping the game on Vita, even in light of all of the troubles it may have caused during development.
With that said, we greatly encourage our Kickstarter/backerkit customers who got a PSVITA copy digitally or physically to fill out the survey here to get your complimentary PS4 or PC download code. https://forms.gle/oCPkuqCAisyLR16s6.
Once again, thank you all for your continued support and patience. We are so excited to be nearing the end of the project and getting you all the promised rewards! We are so grateful to have been given this opportunity and learned so much from the process. As always, if you have any further concerns or questions we welcome them in both DM and in the comments below!
PSVITA Copies being shipped out Friday!
about 3 years ago
– Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:05:44 AM
Hello everyone! we received our stickers yesterday afternoon and spent the evening testing out the label printer and packing a few orders to get things all figured out properly. We have scheduled our first mail pickup for friday and should have the majority of all PSVITA orders shipped out by then! Any orders that have additional items like the standees, mousepads, etc. will go out as soon as we have those other items in hand. CE boxes and artbooks are still in transit, and mousepads/standees should arrive pretty soon.
As stated before Switch, PC, and PS4 copies will go out over the next few months when they arrive.
You will get emails from easyship with tracking numbers(where available) when I prepare your package. Please keep a look out for those!
Lastly, For international backers and customers, once again please keep in mind your duties/taxes/fees as we will not be able to cover those or any long-term storage fees.
Thank you all for your patience, physicals are finally going out and I can't wait to see them on your shelves!
PSVITA Copies Have Arrived and Survey Info for PSVITA backers!
about 3 years ago
– Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:43:05 AM
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Physical Item Shipping Plan and Exciting Announcement!
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 09:23:41 PM
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Switch 1.01 Patch Info, Vita Info, Reward Fulfillment
about 3 years ago
– Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:23:23 AM
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to drop in to give everyone some quick information about the Switch version, the vita release, and the upcoming physicals. Firstly, we'll just give a quick recap of the 1.01 Patch on Switch - this was recently submitted to Nintendo and is currently awaiting their approval prior to the rollout. As a reminder, this patch will be on-cartridge for the Physical release.
The 1.01 patch features fixes to various small things; mostly notably, it increases the graphical fidelity of the Switch version, especially Mei, who some people noted had quality loss when playing on a full-res TV as opposed to the Switch handheld. Besides this, however, there are some smaller but useful QoL changes; the team has also refined some mechanics which some people found frustrating and/or buggy - most notably, the "timed" events (such as the key melting/cooling) which gave some players issues have now been refined in order to work instantly, no longer requiring the timed element. Some other minor QoL improvements have been added as well throughout the game. This patch should be out relatively soon. After the patch, we will allot an extra 1-2 weeks before finalizing physical manufacturing just to ensure there are no other small things requiring changes prior to the finalization of the physical ROM.
The above patch was pre-included in the recent PS4 rollout and will also be pre-included as a day 1 patch in the upcoming vita release. With that said, this now brings us to the status of the vita release. Unfortunately, the delay here is still on Sony's part. Much as we had discussed issues with the SIEE release of the game, we are now experiencing issues with SIEA; while we *are* in contact with Sony for delivering the release, so it's not as if we're ghosted here, this is admittedly been quite the hassle and source of frustration, so we do not really have a timeframe other than "whenever Sony fixes their backend for us to be able to deliver the product". This is unfortunately also the case with other upcoming vita releases of ours (i.e. Synergia, namely), so it is not as if Sense is exclusive in experiencing this. Unfortunately with the Vita sunsetting, trying to coordinate releases through Sony has simply been a nightmare. We will update everyone once we receive more info.
With that said, there is better news regarding the physicals. Those are all good to go, and we will begin fulfillment of them to backers relatively soon. We will have more info (and pictures!) very soon about that. The same applies to the Switch version, but those will likely go out shortly after (just because the Switch versions were put into production later). For those of you who ordered other physicals, such as PC, those will be fulfilled around the same time as the Switch. Most backers should receive their copies before retail buyers receive theirs.
Other digital reward backers, such as those who pledged for the OST & Artbook, will have their rewards go out shortly, likely within the next 2-3 weeks or so. We are just making final preparations for those to go out - we apologize for the extended delay on those deliverables.
That should be everything for now - if there are any questions (or anyone needs assistance, such as changing shipping addresses), then please feel free to reach out. We hope you all have been enjoying the game in the meanwhile, and thank you all for the support as always!
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With just barely over 2 days to run on Kickstarter, Ova Magica's campaign has a great selection of rewards and a very special limited edition physical game available for Switch, and PC DRM-free!
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