Like i've a pre order for the raider, i still want it but i was *excited* about it three or more months ago. Now i just feel like im picking up a parcel that accidentally got delivered to a wrong address and lost in the post for a third of a year.

Oh, come on Gadge, be serious. I'm pretty sure you're going to be tearing that box open and bouncing up and down in excitement when it arrives.

That is on my to do list, yes.

As is sitting and staring at it quietly.

Continuously humming the Imperial March of course.

Its all been pre revealed and we run off print outs so i dont need the cards.

That's your mistake right there, shouldn't've been working with proxies of unreleased stuff. .

And of course you're going to be excited for the Raider once it arrives, you mean to tell me you haven't dreamed up a single scenario of some smuggling operation and Imperial patrol?

Something like the Bacta transfer mission out of X-Wing Alliance perhaps?

Like i say, i did think up cool scenarios and was excited about them.... months ago.

Lot goes on in my life in a few months. I practically feel like the Raider had arrived on time and its done now.

Like i say, i'll pick up my pre order, i'll probably play a game or three with it but i wont be desperate to get it on the table immeditately like i was before.

Point being it is still going to be the thing it was then, its just now been over spoiled and under delivered. Thats just not GOOD thing.

I've always believed that in business its better to promise little, deliver lots than promise lots and fail to live up to that promise.

Works that way for me on the other end as a customer too. If company tells me 'product x will be out in March here lets take your order', and its still on order in August i'm less impressed than if a company took my order for *september* and then said 'hey, great news its a week or two early', and gave it me in August.

Gage, you're generalizing your individual experience and advocating FFG change its business practices based on what works best for you. And, hey, maybe there's a huge silent majority of people just like you, and maybe they should change their practices. But maybe not.

One thing that's actually realistic, though? If reading spoiler articles breaks your excitement, don't read spoiler articles. Crisis averted, excitement maintained.

No, im not at all.

You're making stuff up though

I asked whether people thought things were spoiled too early, i personally think they are and very clearly stated that. I also clearly stated that i wouldnt like to see a GW approach where it was under a veil of secrecy til the last minute.

If you actually READ the thread and responses you see in it to date you'll see i'm clearly not alone in thinking its a bit unnecessary to totally reveal something six months in advance and be revealing the next wave before the last one is even in the shops.

Not just me, quite a few of us, read em.

Im being pretty moderate considering SOME people on this thread would like zero reveals.

Have you like just replied to the last page or did you actually read all the responses before joining in as it certainly seems like the former...

And its Gadge with a D in it.

Its also hard not to see spoiler material and keep up to date with the game, given that every time something is revealed 10 identical threads pop up about it, many with clickbait titles.

Gage, you're generalizing your individual experience and advocating FFG change its business practices based on what works best for you. And, hey, maybe there's a huge silent majority of people just like you, and maybe they should change their practices. But maybe not.

One thing that's actually realistic, though? If reading spoiler articles breaks your excitement, don't read spoiler articles. Crisis averted, excitement maintained.

Is mxlm ribean? Seems dead set on flaming people and trying to pick fights of late.

Not just me, quite a few of us

Well, half a dozen.

Have you like just replied to the last page or did you actually read all the responses before joining in as it certainly seems like the former...

That was actually not my first post in the thread

Sorry about your name, though.

Works that way for me on the other end as a customer too. If company tells me 'product x will be out in March here lets take your order', and its still on order in August i'm less impressed than if a company took my order for *september* and then said 'hey, great news its a week or two early', and gave it me in August.

Oh absolutely. The habit of spoiling and announcing stuff so incredibly early is hurting their reputation as things get pushed back and back without any official statement on why stuff is getting pushed back.

As it stands, it looks to me as if they have no grip on their production process.

I think announcing the first half when they go on the boat seems sufficient.

That feels about right to me. It's usually about 8-10 weeks from new releases getting on the boat to them hitting the shelves.

If FFG started releasing spoliers only once they knew new releases were being shipped, it would allow ample opportunity to offer previews and more or less accurate expectation for when we can get our grubby little fingers on them.

I don't think my excitement is diminished when I read spoilers; I like it from the perspective that ill know what to expect, but you can never account for real life; someone in your local game group could come up with a sick new combo using them.

I like too that it lets me check what I want when it hits the doors; as a mainly imperial player, the articles on the punisher made me think about using more bombs in my lists as well as more ordinance.

I don't think my excitement is diminished when I read spoilers;

Of course your excited when your reading them. The question is whether your still that excited 5 months later.

I don't think my excitement is diminished when I read spoilers;

Of course your excited when your reading them. The question is whether your still that excited 5 months later.

I think it makes me still excited to see them on the table; being seen in the somewhat sterile environment of the web, and seeing the 'spoiled' ships in action across from you, or in your squadron makes it equally exciting for me.

If there's too much news, we complain that everything is being spoiled.

If there's no news for a long period of time, we start worrying about there being no news.

Poor FFG, they can't win!

Welcome to dat enter-webs...

:lol:

I don't think my excitement is diminished when I read spoilers;

Of course your excited when your reading them. The question is whether your still that excited 5 months later.

It really has no effect on me. Because I haven't been able to play with the new stuff before (or often, much later after) release.

The LCG's are hard enough to keep track what is coming out next and what I have to wait for.

I don't think my excitement is diminished when I read spoilers;

Of course your excited when your reading them. The question is whether your still that excited 5 months later.

^ This ^

It's not the spoilers that are the problem - it's the interminable wait - compounded with inevitable delays that are such a pain.

Something that occurred to me yesterday. If the long lead time on the spoiler articles is, for some reason, unavoidable, something FFG might do to fill the empty void between announcement and release and keep us talking about productive things would be to publish some online scenarios that feature recent releases might be a good idea.

If they wanted to get ambitious, they could even serialize a series of linked missions and put up 1 every 2 weeks or so.

I don't think designing, writing and layout on some missions would consume too many company resources.

I'm fine with the spoilers. The real excitement happens when you finally get to fly them. They could spoil everything 6 months before hand but I'm still super excited to receive it and play it. Besides, you learn the most when you actually get it on the board and try it anyway.

Well, the blood is in the water and it's a feeding frenzy of spoilers out there.

Wave 7 hasn't hit the stores yet and people are already list building with the spoiled wave 8 cards.

Time to take shelter and weather the storm for a few days at the least.