Recent content by jolt

Then it should never have been brought up in the first place. In fact, the entire MegaDeal Customers section of that post should have been left out. If that whole section of the post is to be called into question the it makes me leery of accepting anything Matt is saying there; including...

I got it from Matt's post. This part here: Megadeal Customers Some of you have uncompleted Megadeal subscriptions. Regretably, we are now unable to proceed with these beyond Book 17. After consulting with Mr Dever to find a fair resolution to this, we have both agreed to the following; *snip*...

Matt, you already have that information. You've mailed 17 books to me, book number 8 twice. I'm tired of playing the "chase Matt" game for little dribbles of info (at best). I don't feel like doing so anymore just to give you information you already have. I don't understand what further...

Holy freackin' hell! Hundreds of dollars in the Megadeal down the drain. Everything I've heard about Mr. dever indicates that he's a great guy but I have trouble believing he's going to absorb the need to fulfill the remaining 15 books to the Megadeal customers. Does he even know who we are?

And May really means June or July. I'd say I was disappointed but I already said that one book a year (two if we're lucky) is all we're ever going to get. It's clear Mongoose doesn't give a rat's ass about the LW fans and customers. They blame things that never occured like "the bottom...

Updates are only meaningful when you can trust them. Three straight State of the Mongose reports have promised more LW support; it has yet to happen. I can't see how the current one is likely to be more truthful than the previous. We get "straight talk" at the beginning of every year and then...

The problem with rpg's these days is that the market is almost too successful across multiple purchasing venues. There really is no 800 pound gorilla anymore; just a lot of 400 pound ones. With sites like RPGNow and DriveThruRPG offering cheaper pdf formats than buying even a softback people...

Which brings up my largest concern. If the current schedule of it taking another 10 years holds true, is Mr. Dever really interested in commiting the next 10 years of his life to doing so? I don't know the man and maybe he is willing but I'm skeptical of that. I remember when these forums...

It wasn't so bad early on, though still wasn't even close to the promised release schedule (and rather absurdly re-promised two State of the Mongoose's ago). It's not just the missed deadlines that's frustrating but that they always promise news and "Expect an update soon!" but never give it...

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I agree. In fact, I started worrying years ago. When I first heard about LW being released again years ago at GenCon I was pretty excited. I did the original Mega-Deal but months of (supposedly) printer errors kept me from getting even a single book for some time. Books 1-4 arrived all at...

Considering the plethora of "printing issues" that seem to plague almost every LW book it seems highly unlikely that we'll ever see more than 2-3 books per year. If we're lucky, 18 is out by GenCon (August) and 19 by XMas. More likely, we'll see 18 in October or November and 19 by March or...

IMO, mega-games are only good when they feel like mega-games. High level strategic decisions are different than squad level tactical decisions but too few games reflect this. When a base representing 46 ships uses virtually the same rules as a game where a base represents one ship it isn't...

There's a limit to how much time and money people can devote to a game. Dystopian Wars was hugely looked forward to in my area but the quality issues killed the game. Most gamers don't have time to constantly troll forums looking to see if errata 5.54Q-13 is still valid. Errata is always...

I'd like to see more information in the main rulebook. The system isn't very complex and information is already spread out over so many books, and not done particularly well, that the game is feeling quite fiddly.