Re: [DL] Rant!

[Marguerite Frey <natasha_corey@yahoo.com>]

Excuse me for the large quote, but Allan you just
perfectly captured my sentiments:

--- Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com> wrote:
> I've been a fan for a large number of games -
> several of whom ended up 
> disappointing me - TSR and the selling out over
> demons, Hero games with the 
> 4th edition and large gap in releases, White Wolf
> and the 3 month 2nd 
> editions and annual Christmas pink slip party, L5R
> and their lie to me, 
> WotC and the money over gameplay decisions with
> magic - and three years ago 
> I found a game company that was honest to their
> fans, didn't blow them off, 
> that seemed to seriously care about the quality of
> their products, AND 
> actually listened to our suggestions.
> 
> In short - I found a damn good company.  

> Excuse me if this sounds hostile, but you have a
> HELL of a lot of ground to 
> make up before you can EVEN hold your head up as
> high as Shane's.  Instead 
> of raising all of your child companies up to the
> level of PEG, you've 
> brought PEG down to the lowest common denominator - 
> Hero - a part-time 
> garage run company - and whose only  way to make a
> profit was to keep 
> repackaging the same rules and selling them as new
> and improved.  5th 
> edition my foot.  You've been sitting on that for
> over a year now.  And you 
> expect us to believe you when you say that Pinnacle
> stuff will be coming 
> out "soon".

AMEN.  Pure and sweet.  *sigh*  It's a -really- good
thing I found what seems to be the ONLY copy of
Collegium that made it to California.

Marguerite of EMGB, otherwise known as Maggie Jensen

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