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.

Comments

Re:

[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.

Re:

[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.