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

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[ghostbritain.livejournal.com]

Wait, i've just thought!

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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[kingandy]

"Currently Maestrom only exits as a pagga board and as a word of mouth myth."

True, but this does not comprise a goodly portion of the mailshot. The rules and associated snackies are being sent to everyone on the Omega mailing list, each and every customer who ever went to Omega, including the ones who've never heard of Pagga.

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[ghostbritain.livejournal.com]

So, those who didn't get to go to Omega are ignored?

I don't read pagga that often, i was never at omega, all i know is what bacon tells me, really, and that i've been watching the maelstrom site since before Jan 1st, and it actually doesn't exist anymore (that i can see).

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[arwel.livejournal.com]

The organisers have to know you exist before they send you the mailshot. Send Matt Pennington your address. The Omega mailing list is one source of potential intrested parties along with their addresses. I suspect when the web site is back up there will be some means for you to contact the organisers and request the mailshot. Eventually.

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[kingandy]

There's been an open call for people who want a mailshot and never went to Omega to send word to the Volcano God. Presumably people who want to go to the event and don't find out until after the mailshot will still be able to send off for one, as with any normal system.

Think about how other games operate ... a website goes up, or word of mouth spreads, and then people send off for booking forms and player packs. That stage is still going to happen, only there's also an initial stage, before the website goes up, where all the Omega players are thanked for their custom by being given an advance screening of the Maelstrom system. Then the website goes up, then people start booking etc.

[blue-room.livejournal.com]

Mark W: No of course not, the organisers will have picked your address out of your brain at range with their telepaths. You won't have to tell them where you live because they already know.

*sheesh*