Fantastic rundown jmoschner! I write and produce video, and it's always frustrating how people seem to think making a product is as easy as consuming a product....
Did I miss something?
Or three of the writers died in a horrible dairy accident.
Completely true fact: What forced WEG out of business was not the parent shoe company mismanaging funds, but that the lead editor was caught with an albino transvestite dwarf in a industrial rice pressure cooker accident and killed, thus completely throwing off the product line's schedule. The company never recovered from that.
Fantastic rundown jmoschner! I write and produce video, and it's always frustrating how people seem to think making a product is as easy as consuming a product....
That's funny, my day job is annimation, motion graphics, and visual effects.
Must be nice to be a playtester, even if you can't say you are... and I'm not saying YOU are... but I doubt many of us would be surprised if you (or at least one of your crew that we don't listen to) happened to be one.
Oh I'll say it; I am.
Look at "Stay on Target", "Desperate Allies" and the "Force and Destiny GM Kit". Whether I'm testing anything now... *shrug*
And it has been fun. They occasionally put out a call for playtesting groups. Get involved and apply, if you can get a group of dedicated gamers for it.
Edited by DarthGMheh heh... best post I've read today...
The boat is trapped on Gilligan's Island in the Bermuda Triangle we must mount an immediate rescue operation utilizing Euclidean Geometry to find it...
In regards to products being "on the boat" for so long, I wonder if part of the issue is that those products were held at the docks to wait for additional products to be ready to be shipped overseas as well.
Much as we may not like the extended wait, if FFG can cut their shipping costs by grouping several products together on a single boat, then that's more than likely what they'll do, especially if overseas storage for those books that were finished printing sooner (such as Strongholds and Gatekeeper) is cheaper than it would cost to have those various lots shipped separately.
In regards to products being "on the boat" for so long, I wonder if part of the issue is that those products were held at the docks to wait for additional products to be ready to be shipped overseas as well.
Much as we may not like the extended wait, if FFG can cut their shipping costs by grouping several products together on a single boat, then that's more than likely what they'll do, especially if overseas storage for those books that were finished printing sooner (such as Strongholds and Gatekeeper) is cheaper than it would cost to have those various lots shipped separately.
They already had 2 books. several x-wing packs. that went on the boat before those books. So that doesn't make much sense... More likely they are stuck in customs from the backlog caused by the strike.
Edited by DaeglanOr they just leave it as "on the boat" until they're ready to say they're not on the boat for whatever reason. I'm sure there are many processes that their product must go through before reaching us.
Well, I'm sure X-Wing packs sell a whole lot better than RPG books do, so there's probably more incentive to get those boosters to store shelves.
But as Mouthymerc noted, could be any host of reasons why those books are still listed as "on the boat." For FFG, said status could be used to represent anything between "at the printers" and "currently shipping." So probably best to read "on the boat" as not being literally on a boat, but rather in a state of limbo until it gets to FFG's warehouses stateside.
It's been mentioned, but the updating on the "Upcoming" page appears to be very unreliable. Keeping the Peace was announced, yet never showed up on the page until just a few days ago "On the Boat". Either somebody dropped the ball and didn't update the products, or accidentally updated them to the wrong category.
Probably did not update it.