Unfulfilled Promises

[kingandy]

January 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.

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[kingandy]

Chill, chill. Nobody's ungrateful for the immense work and effort that's gone into this. Nobody's suggesting just plonking the thing on a website and leaving it at that, relying on word of mouth and broadband intarweb connections to support the Volcano God.

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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[delvy.livejournal.com]

Ultimately you will be able to dsownload it, but not in the form that it went to the printers in, and any other form takes time to produce. It is not as simple as cutting and pasting text in, especially when you have tables, or maps, or the suchlike; if only it were. *sigh*

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[delvy.livejournal.com]

I should also point out that I have had a minimum of five people per day asking me if it is out yet, if the website is up, etc, etc. On average about 10 per day. Since Decemeber. I make that about a total of 600 pokes, including some real whinges about it, as Mr Raff will himself confess. This was just the last I was willing to take lying down given that we are stuffing envelopes as quickly as we can. Heh, if I'm blowing off steam here, at least it's not at teh event.... or when writing plot docs, as I am at the moment. Which group you going with Mr Mason? ;-)

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[kingandy]

I'm still officially undecided (I've been holding off until the rules come out and I get to find out all about the rich, verdant tapestry that you have woven), but I am being slowly drawn in by the veritable maelstrom of froth that is the Sunderland Massive (Clan Anaguma).

I get to wear japanese clothes! And honour! Wheeee!

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[myki.livejournal.com]

I'm to understand I can say whatever I want as long as I end my post with the word "fluff"... with that in mind..

So what your saying is your haven't got it done yet? Tsk, in my day we'd off destroyed the world by now.

fluff

Hmmm doesn't seem to work... makes me sound like a cretin.. Oh well, all I need to know is... Should I start making my curtains material frock coat or not? To hell with the rules! I want to be dapper.

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[delvy.livejournal.com]

There are cultures with frock coats. There are some with ruffs. There are even some with turbans. And fezs.

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[myki.livejournal.com]

Another satisfied customer...

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[arwel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Fez's are just great aren't they. Must get one for when I GM next.

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[ghostbritain.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. You've (or somebody like you) has hyped (or allowed it to be hyped) the system beyond all expectations.
People loved Omega, and then when they were still in mourning, Maelstrom was announced.
Then the froth started as people started suggesting things, and, frankly, it IS THE MOST ANTICIPATED LRP EVENT THIS YEAR, OR JUST ABOUT ANYOTHER YEAR!
Then you make promises that you don't keep.
So far, as i can see, it's entirely bells and whistles, and currently no substance.

You may as well be proclaiming that you've developed safe and reliable cold fusion, then not actually letting people see the lab test.

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[kingandy]

Seriously: STFU. The current delays are due to printers failing to deliver. When you get Ghost Britain off the ground you will have room to twine about how easy it is to produce a LRP system in six months, but until then keep schtum.

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[ghostbritain.livejournal.com]

I havn't set up a website, or fed fanboys scraps.
Plus, i am bored. And jaded with the next best thing in larp. We should all go to the gathereing and count ourselves lucky.

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[delvy.livejournal.com]

What website? We set up a holding page for a domain name and thats a very very different thing. And the fanboys fed upon each other.

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[ghostbritain.livejournal.com]

It Said "the maelstrom website will launch Jan 01"
Excsuse me for calling it a website, when actually it was just more froth fodder.

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[delvy.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It said the website would launch, which unfortunately has had to be put back a bit. It was not the website, and the website is not ready.

TBH If you don't like the way we have done things then you don't have to be involved. When you have produced a system on the scale of what is being done for Maelstrom then feel free to make all the snide comments you like.

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[arwel.livejournal.com]

You can hardly blame the organisers for the frothing fanboys who proclaimed Maelstrom the best thing ever as soon as Matt Pennington mentioned the possibility on pagga. So they're a bit late with the mailshot, does it really matter? It's not like they've taken our money and run or anything. I think the Grolsch adverts have an important point to make on the matter.