Weekly Updates June 19 and June 26

[Jaymz]

June 19

Weekly update

www.palladiumbooks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=727:palladium-booksr-weekly-update-june-19-2014&catid=52:weekly-updates&Itemid=183

Sale - good variety

RRT - Um....ok so is there some reason you guys haven't bothered to show us the sprues of the remaiining units to be manufactured adn only a select couple or so?

MiF - I personally do not care how much wow factor you are adding. Get the damn thing done already. Sadly I await the excuses for the for why this does not actually go to the printer in the next 2 weeks or so.....

NG hardovers - cool. personally I think all world books should have a "regular" hardcover option for a slight increase in price available....just a musing of mine not a complaint.

DR: GE - July....yeah right.

UEEF Marines - By Gencon? or this summer? BAHAHAHAHAHA

You are all fired up? good get shit done so we can see it's great instead of constantly telling us it's great.


June 26

Weekly Update

www.palladiumbooks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=728:palladium-booksr-weekly-update-june-26-2014&catid=52:weekly-updates&Itemid=183

Kevin....I do not care about your 15 hour days. Honestly. Many of your customers do this as a matter of course. Stop telling us.

Extending the sale was nice. Thumbs up.

Apparently only part of it is being manufactured since you are still confirming manufacturing specs and approving manufacturing proofs.

Megaverse in Flames - Kevin you have to have this book done by July 15 to get it out in July. I await why it isn't though I hope it is. I want the damn book. I hope you really are as close as you say you are and not as close as you were for months on Lemuria, NG 1, and NG 2.

Glad the NG 2 HCs are pretty much all out.

DR: GE - Art is assigned and you still think you can get this book done by July 15 as well? Oooooookay.

Rifter in July.....lets hope so because the last couple of years it has been a hit and miss as to it being released in it's regular month.

R:EF Marines in summer? Not bloody likely. With having to get all the RRT stuff shipped and Gencon? Not. Going. To. Happen.

I feel for you Kevin. You have indeed lost some people close to you. It is never easy. All you can do is carry on. I hate to say this though.....you are in your 50's. It is time to start realizing this will happen unfortunately and while you can never prepare yourself to deal with it, you can prepare yourself to carry on from it.

[MacrossMike]

Jun 29, 2014 1:06:14 GMT Jaymz said:

RRT - Um....ok so is there some reason you guys haven't bothered to show us the sprues of the remaiining units to be manufactured adn only a select couple or so?

Heh.

Jun 29, 2014 1:06:14 GMT Jaymz said:

UEEF Marines - By Gencon? or this summer? BAHAHAHAHAHA

Is anyone truly going to shed any tears that ironclad proof that Robotech's creatively bankrupt and increasingly desperate is going to be yet another delayed release? 

I know I'm not.  If Tatsunoko had an ounce of sense, they would've told Harmony Gold to fuck right off when they asked if they could adapt that MOSPEADA concept art.

Jun 29, 2014 1:06:14 GMT Jaymz said:

You are all fired up? good get shit done so we can see it's great instead of constantly telling us it's great.

Now, if Kevin worked for any competent gaming company and delivered the way he does now... he'd just be fired, not fired up.

Jun 29, 2014 1:06:14 GMT Jaymz said:

Apparently only part of it is being manufactured since you are still confirming manufacturing specs and approving manufacturing proofs.

It's a good thing Kevin hasn't reached the point where he needs to borrow money from a loan shark... as quickly and consistently as Kevin delivers the goods, the loan shark would run out of bones to break before Kevin ever managed to pay him back.

Seriously though, I'm glad this has turned into a complete and total disaster for Robotech.  It's been a great opportunity for Robotech's more clueless fans to get to grips with the simple, honest truth that Robotech is a fucking mess that will never fail to disappoint them.  Why?  The people responsible for the franchise are cack-handed twits and well-meaning incompetents who don't understand the industry they're in, and they hold the intelligence of the fans in particularly low regard.  The backers got fleeced for sure, but it's nice to know that the sheer bloody incompetence of the con men involved eradicated any profit they might've taken home from their scam.  If nothing else, the suckers who put their money into the Kickstarter can rest easy, knowing that there truly is karmic justice in the world... and if that's not enough to sate their ire, I can always sell them some headlamp fluid as a consolation.

I still say they'll fuck around and delay shit until next year, when they can pretend that it was always their plan to release this as part of the 30th Anniversary spectacular that nobody in the industry besides Harmony Gold will notice or give a shit about.

[Jaymz]

Well I'm only in at the 130 level. It WAS a good deal so I'll be happy to get it. As I have said before though, I'll likely get significantly more use out of them for Battletech or doing SDF Macross games using Mekton or Silcore. Upside I may be able to pick the items I didn't get on Ebay pretty cheap at a later date.

[Josh Hilden]

He had a finished and polished Robotech manuscript for years that rocked, but you know since he didn't want to pay someone he was mad at...

[MacrossMike]

Jun 29, 2014 19:47:39 GMT Josh Hilden said:

He had a finished and polished Robotech manuscript for years that rocked, but you know since he didn't want to pay someone he was mad at...

That he thought rocked... his standards for quality tend to be quite a bit lower than the average person's.

[Josh Hilden]

NO it actually rocked, I'm talking about Jason's manuscript. His writing may not be everyone's cuppa but he's a damn better writer than KS.

Not speaking out of my bu either

[MacrossMike]

Jun 30, 2014 16:37:05 GMT Josh Hilden said:

NO it actually rocked, I'm talking about Jason's manuscript.

Eh... in all fairness, the book "rocking" in comparison to Palladium's other work is still setting the bar low enough to be a trip hazard in Satan's wine cellar.  Doubly so where Robotech is concerned.  That is, after all, both a game line and a franchise where simple mediocrity is a level of quality well above average. 

Jun 30, 2014 16:37:05 GMT Josh Hilden said:

His writing may not be everyone's cuppa but he's a damn better writer than KS.

Having read some of Jason's work for other companies, I'll agree he's a decent writer and absolutely deserved far better treatment than he got from Kevin... but surely you can give him a better endorsement than that.  I mean c'mon... Kevin still hasn't figured out how alphabetical order works.

[Josh Hilden]

well yeah but then I'd have to tell you he's a better writer than me and I won't give Marker the satisfaction.

But on a serious note I've read a lot of Jason's robotech stuff before KS and HG got their hands on it, what was done was kinda criminal.

[ninjabunny]

Jun 30, 2014 17:46:28 GMT Josh Hilden said:

well yeah but then I'd have to tell you he's a better writer than me and I won't give Marker the satisfaction.

But on a serious note I've read a lot of Jason's robotech stuff before KS and HG got their hands on it, what was done was kinda criminal.

up note though other companies have treated him far better. (And I am pleased to know he helped with Star Wars: edge of the empire.)

[Josh Hilden]

Jun 30, 2014 18:16:20 GMT ninjabunny said:

Jun 30, 2014 17:46:28 GMT Josh Hilden said:

well yeah but then I'd have to tell you he's a better writer than me and I won't give Marker the satisfaction.

But on a serious note I've read a lot of Jason's robotech stuff before KS and HG got their hands on it, what was done was kinda criminal.

up note though other companies have treated him far better. (And I am pleased to know he helped with Star Wars: edge of the empire.)

Yeah he's done some damn good work for Fantasy Flight

[ninjabunny]

He has a great knack for sci-fi and capturing that feel and bring it to a game setting.