| From: | Sommers sommers@*****.umich.edu |
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| Subject: | Man & Machine - is it out? |
| Date: | Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:32:28 -0400 |
> Well, I don't work for FASA, don't know anyone at FASA personally,
> but I do
>know this from the publishing world: on the paper I work at, we are
>consistently
>there later than we had anticipated. If we think we'll be done at
>midnight, it'll
>be closer to 2 am when we finish. Things happen. And it's a consistent
>thing (of
>course, if we think we'll be done at 2 am just like last week, we'll be
>done at 4
>am.) So my point is, well, I really have no point, just an observation.
There are some people on the list generally associated with FASA, from
freelancers to people who are in weekly contact with DLOH (ate least it
seems that way). I understand the general concept of the deadline creep,
and things taking a lot longer than they should. And maybe its because I
pay more attention to SR than I do most other games, but it seems that SR
tends to go later than most other games out there.
And I think that part of the problem is lack of information. This thread
started with someone being told that it was both out and not out yet. K
thinks that October 15th is the release date. And Dvixen said that it has 5
weeks to go. Why isn't there any official statement that "yes, it should
come out on <this date>."
The best one I've seen for this is SJGames. When one of their books is
getting close to ready, it goes to the playtest files for a few days. When
that's done they're taken off and cleaned up more. About a month or two
later there's a message that Title X has just been shipped off to the
printers, and should be going out to the retailers X weeks after that. Then
when its shipped out another message goes out saying that these games are
now going to the distributors.
I'm hoping that if the Decipher thing goes through this is one of the
things that will improve. I know that not everyone has web access, but FASA
is really wasting a valuable resource. My local game shop has web access
and a web site. It would be nice, even if I didn't have the access, to be
able to go to my game shop, ask them about release dates, and have them be
able to look it up.
Sommers
Insert witty quote here.
