Unfulfilled Promises
Feb. 2nd, 2004 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyJanuary has come and January has gone, and Maelstrom has failed to materialise. Allegedly the mailshot has/willsoonbe gone out, but that's just not good enough. We were promised January. I demand my money back!
It's something I've found myself saying a lot lately, but is no less true for it: if you give somebody something for free they get annoyed when you take it away. And even if you know it belongs to you - you were being generous letting them use it for a time - you feel bad about depriving them. Especially when they look up at you with their big, brown doe eyes and say "Oh please Andy, I won't be much longer, I just have to finish chatting to everyone then you can have your computer back..."
Really, it's like kicking a puppy. Which is why I found myself watching the X-Men movie last night. Sigh.
It's something I've found myself saying a lot lately, but is no less true for it: if you give somebody something for free they get annoyed when you take it away. And even if you know it belongs to you - you were being generous letting them use it for a time - you feel bad about depriving them. Especially when they look up at you with their big, brown doe eyes and say "Oh please Andy, I won't be much longer, I just have to finish chatting to everyone then you can have your computer back..."
Really, it's like kicking a puppy. Which is why I found myself watching the X-Men movie last night. Sigh.
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Date: 2004-02-02 02:41 am (UTC)You don't own it, you haven't paid for it and it's our ball so play nice :-)
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Date: 2004-02-02 02:46 am (UTC)I'm mostly annoyed about the website... We demand instant gratification! None of this "Hard Copy" kerfuffle.
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Date: 2004-02-02 02:59 am (UTC)Seriously though, I'm not suggesting you rely entirely on the web. Just slap a big-ass PDF up there for those of us who are capable. You know you want to.
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Date: 2004-02-02 03:06 am (UTC)Just hang in there for 3 or 4 more days, thats all it is.
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Date: 2004-02-02 04:11 am (UTC)And boy, do I enjoy wasting it.
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Date: 2004-02-02 04:15 am (UTC)We love you really. I'm just saying, we could love you more.
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Date: 2004-02-02 10:07 am (UTC)As far as i can tell, 90% of your audience have web access and read Pagga.
And as many bells & whistles your rule book has, the larger majority of those who wish to attend would be more than happy with html text version they can cut & paste, download, print off etc.
The argument 'not everything has to be done on the web' is fair enough, but i'm guessing it's going to be a right royal pain personally posting out the finely engraved and platinum gilded rules that are, i expect, illuminated on the cured skins of unborn calves.
I'm not a computer nerd, but even i know that setting up a basic html link with text takes no actual time. And is user friendly, and doesn't disappoint, and doesn't invite comparisons to both 'Matrix:reloaded' and 'StarWars:The Phantom Menace'.
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Date: 2004-02-02 10:46 am (UTC)As the saying goes "Rome was not built in a day."
And, with the greatest of respect, you do no have any rights to demand the rulebook. You have nothing invested in it. You have paid nothing. In four months about thirty people have spent all their spare time and more trying to create a new, exciting and vibrant Fest system. This takes time, no matter how much effort goes into it; some of us only just managed to cling onto real lives.
90% of our audience do *not* have regular access to the internet despite what some people seem to think; in fact it amazes me that some users believe everyone else spends as much time on it as they do. Websites take development. We are creating a professional site for Profound Decisions; you might want the rules slapped up in a cheap and cheerful fashion but we are not going to provide that. We are trying to present a high quality product, above and beyond those that have gone before. I am sorry if you find that offensive.
Mr Raff, if you're listening, that was the end of my very long ad polite tether. I'll go and calm down now.
And as Mr Wilkin said. "It's only a fucking game"
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Date: 2004-02-02 12:15 pm (UTC)Your right... we have no right to expect anything. However... this game has provoked an unprecedented level of expectation. It seems to be far exceeding even GDs pre and post event hype.
Its all the more amazing considering the short space of time its been done in.
However..... (theres always a however)
Most of us need to acquire costumes, sort out backgrounds etc, and we don't have a huge amount of time. I've got even less time, because I need to sort out stuff for Everichon a few weeks before.
So.... please understand our eagerness/impatience (delete whichever causes you most annoyance).
Perhaps we could bribe you?
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Date: 2004-02-02 12:31 pm (UTC)We're just surprised that, given we have previously assumed the rulebook will ultimately be in some sequential, paper-based format, it's unavailable for download at all. Certain obfuscated hints have led us to believe it is in a format unrenderable by the inkjet printer or computer screen, leading to the hypothetical gold-ebossed calf-skin nature of the thing.
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Date: 2004-02-02 12:35 pm (UTC)Alright, you win.
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Date: 2004-02-03 07:11 am (UTC)Currently Maestrom only exits as a pagga board and as a word of mouth myth.
That is why i believe most of those who are interested in the system have net access.
Because it only exists on the web.
I for one have not been made aware of any other format it exists in.
Also, i'm not demanding a rule book, i'm suggesting that the website should be up, with a basic, temporary, version of the rules, which would instantly stop wankers like myself pestering you.
The only person i know who has any solid idea of the system is Katy Bacon, who sneeked a peek at Matts paper copy of the rules.
Now, if Matt has a paper copy of the rules, then i guess that the rest of us can as well.
I've nothing against fancy rule books, i own limited edition fancy WoD books that cost £50.
But really, they make no actual difference, and i would have been happy with a straight, normal copy.
Currently i'm reserving judgement on the whole thing until i can actually see the finished product. I don't want to turn up thinking it's the best thing ever (as all froth suggests) and then leave thinking it wasn't all that.
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Date: 2004-02-02 11:31 am (UTC)90% of their audience on Pagga, do me a lemon, we're a minority in a minority. If they want to get the numbers they want they should have leaflets and posters in every RPG shop in the country and possibly even an ad in SFX. THATS how to advertise, Pagga is just a tool for people who already know about stuff and want to go to events, most people need a push to get off their arses and book. If it was as simple as you claim myself and Ed would be sitting on a beach in the south of france spending the profits of Pagga.con.
As for PDF's, wait until you see the rulebook, I'll be there waiting for the apology.
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Date: 2004-02-02 12:44 pm (UTC)Not even in jest.
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Date: 2004-02-03 07:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-02 06:19 am (UTC)She needs a laptop and then you can just fight over the phoneline, until you get broadband. It's the only way our household will survive I'm thinking.
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Date: 2004-02-02 06:40 am (UTC)Hmm, maybe I'll buy that new computer I've been thinking about and set my old one up as a Windows server. It may require the occasional reboot but at least it'll be running...
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Date: 2004-02-02 08:06 am (UTC)So, is that basically a pre-configured combined gateway and hub, or what?
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Date: 2004-02-02 08:40 am (UTC)The 54-g actually runs linux so you can do flashier things with it if you like that sort of thing (e.g. traffic shapping). But really thats just for eggheads, normal operation doesn't require knowing about its guts. Fret ye not ;-)
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