Update for Player's Guide and Clanking City?
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Hey...
Take a look at the Mongoose blog over at Planet Mongoose. In today's entry msprange wrote this about future RuneQuest titles...
So I'd say it'll be late April or early May, when we costumers will hold those books in our hands.
But I'll give them the delay time.
There are two reasons for this:
1.
In house printing is way better than having to ship off your stuff. Maybe we'll even see better product quality and more pages for the same (or hopefully) fewer bucks in the future...
2.
Let them print the paranoia stuff on the new printing machine first.
Give another setting the possibility of a bad trail run and have the certainty, that the books for strong selling series like RQ and Babylon 5 will come out ok and shiny!
Last but not least, be sure that the Mongoose people are most likely doing whatever they can right now to be able to get this new printer into working order and have it print loads of new books.
Remember: That's what they do for a living! Write, print, publish and finally sell books!
The first steps on that stair don't make them money. The opposite is true: Writers have to be paid, licenses have to be paid and printing is a costly enterprise.
So rest assured that the output downtime we are experienceing right know, will come to an end rather soon and will be followed by months of many realeases. So use the remaining time to put some money away. I have the feeling that we'll need it quite soon to be able to keep track of all the new releases that will see the light of day!
Here's hoping. :lol:
All the best, Mongoose and good luck with the new printer!
Take a look at the Mongoose blog over at Planet Mongoose. In today's entry msprange wrote this about future RuneQuest titles...
So I'd say it'll be late April or early May, when we costumers will hold those books in our hands.
But I'll give them the delay time.
There are two reasons for this:
1.
In house printing is way better than having to ship off your stuff. Maybe we'll even see better product quality and more pages for the same (or hopefully) fewer bucks in the future...
2.
Let them print the paranoia stuff on the new printing machine first.
Give another setting the possibility of a bad trail run and have the certainty, that the books for strong selling series like RQ and Babylon 5 will come out ok and shiny!
Last but not least, be sure that the Mongoose people are most likely doing whatever they can right now to be able to get this new printer into working order and have it print loads of new books.
Remember: That's what they do for a living! Write, print, publish and finally sell books!
The first steps on that stair don't make them money. The opposite is true: Writers have to be paid, licenses have to be paid and printing is a costly enterprise.
So rest assured that the output downtime we are experienceing right know, will come to an end rather soon and will be followed by months of many realeases. So use the remaining time to put some money away. I have the feeling that we'll need it quite soon to be able to keep track of all the new releases that will see the light of day!
Here's hoping. :lol:
All the best, Mongoose and good luck with the new printer!
Sinisalo said:
Because I think they use all available people right now to get books ready to be printed and the printers ready to print them. Maintaining a high profile on the webpage isn't a top priority right now. That's fine be me. Just take a look: The number of posts by MGP officials in the forums are also lesser than usual. Just give the guys a break they'll have some books for us...sooner or later, anyway!
CharlieMonster
Mongoose
Cut said:
It is good that you are patient and supportive but how long can a company operate without new output? It has been three months since anything has been produced. My LGS have said they will only order new RQ products by request because they are worried the line is about to implode, leaving them with product they cannot sell! Patience and loyalty of good, but so is not wanting to see something you love wither on the vine!
CharlieMonster said:
You're right of course. The switch of printing facilities wasn't the best timed one in the world, that's for sure. But the company has products ready to go, once the ptinter goes online finally. You'll see, within the next 4 weeks new books will be published. There are finished titles in the pipe. Completely written, fully paid. Titles that will be big sellers (RQ: Clanking City and the quite interesting Player's guide to Glorantha!!!)
What we could do, is spread the word (at LGS, with friends and fellow gamers) that the company is doing ok, that they just have changed logistics (the printer!!!) and will be back quite soon.
I feel, somehow, the Mongoose should honour my actions on their behalf
CharlieMonster said:
Three months? In the Good Old Days, we sometimes had to wait ten years for a RQ supplement! Three months gives my wallet time to recover before the next batch.
CharlieMonster said:
Seriously, three months isn't going to kill RQ. If nothing comes out for a couple of years I'd be worried, but even one supplement every 3-6 months would be enough to keep things ticking over and I can't see things falling back to even that level.
Sinisalo said:
Hi there,
Sincere apologies for that - normal service will be resumed from the end of this month onwards.
Verisimilitude
Mongoose
I can wait, but can't, if you know what I mean.
I was hoping to start my new eight player campaign by the 25th, and I probably will still... But now I have to "wing it" and then "fix" things when the Player's Guide comes out. Not as promising as I had hoped but better than my RQ1 campaign decades ago, hee hee
It's not nearly as Pressing for me as the new hardware is for you.
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I was hoping to start my new eight player campaign by the 25th, and I probably will still... But now I have to "wing it" and then "fix" things when the Player's Guide comes out. Not as promising as I had hoped but better than my RQ1 campaign decades ago, hee hee
It's not nearly as Pressing for me as the new hardware is for you.
.
CharlieMonster
Mongoose
Are We There Yet?
Practically yes - have a peek at the latest post on Planet Mongoose
My credit card company are gonna love this news, my bank balance might not smile as hard, but congratulations on persevering and hopefully the avalanche in publications mentioned in Planet Mongoose will long continue. My current list is Players , Clanking , Uz, Spells...
elgrin
elgrin said:
My current list is Players , Clanking , Uz, Spells...
The Player's Guide does indeed look like it will be one of the first off the presses!
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