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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:55 am

well if someone brings one along to GenCon for me, so i can get my hands on it THERE and THEN...i will buy it.

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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:26 pm

Wow, I'm really starting to feel like a sucker...and I only bought a SE.

Hmm, no, I don't have a gambling problem, I'm winning, and winning is not a problem. That's like saying Michael Jordan has a basketball problem, or Def Leppard has an awesomeness problem. So why don't y'all pour some sugar on that?

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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:48 pm

To add insult to injury, is Aaron listing it at a 10% discount to boot? I still haven't received my SE yet...

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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:08 pm

islestrike wrote:Bottled City is now available for purchase from NobleKnight ...

Not good. Not good on many, many levels ...

I mean no offense to Allan and others who have posted here to keep us up to date and who probably feel like they are caught in the middle, but PPP needs a complete restructuring ... and that's if it's even a viable enterprise still.

I can't see too many people getting excited about extending the company an interest-free loan again. Especially when many of them aren't being repaid more than a year later.

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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:16 pm

Still waiting on my copy from PPP but just ordered on from NK. Lets see which one arrives first.

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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:24 pm

Nice to know that Aaron was able to get his stock before the people who actually paid for the f**king thing got theirs. :roll:

According to Rob on the PPP site, they are supposedly all shipped out now:

http://p085.ezboard.com/fpiedpiperpubli ... 41&stop=48

So its going to be interesting to see what happens now. I am really curious to see if he has also started paying his people who worked on it yet as well.

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:23 pm

Unfortunately, I've seen this sort of thing before with small press operations (although not RPGs). I'm still waiting for a book from Darkside Press, a short story anthology, that I paid $150 for in Nov. of 2006 which was supposed to be released in Dec. of 2006. It's been more than a year since, and the book has yet to be printed let alone shipped. From what I understand, the contributors have not been paid either, etc., much like this situation. Incidentally, the excuses given by the publisher (it's a one-man show) were health-related too, until the excuses (and replies to e-mails) stopped entirely.

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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:03 pm

Just ordered from Noble Knight. It was even offered at a discount to the cover price

Glad I waited on this

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:32 am

Looks like I should order mine from NK too. :lol:

I wonder if they have my check.

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:38 am

Jaybird216 wrote:Looks like I should order mine from NK too. I wonder if they have my check.

You know what makes it even even more infuriating? Someone over on DF posted that they ordered a copy iof the SE from NK and already got it. :evil:

BTW, from what I understand, there is at least one other individual who worked on the project who is still waiting to paid that you may not even know about. What a bunch of sh*t.

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:48 pm

Pre-order placed in May ('07). Still no BC here. Waiting not so patiently for it to arrive.

Forecast for future preorders from PPP: not a snow-balls chance in h***.

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:49 pm

Just received mine, in record time (ordered Friday a.m., rec'd at app. 2:30 p.m. Monday) from NK (minor corner bump upon arrival, but no biggie

. Seems interesting, if a bit slight; from what I can gather by cursory perusal it only covers one level of the city. The maps are cool, and I leafed through the booklet briefly, but I think I'll wait for the free .pdf download to read it through so I don't add more wear/tear. Of course, the link to the password-protected download doesn't work properly, so I am now in line with everyone else waiting for PPP to get its act together...

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 2:54 pm

Pretty Purgatorial Publishing.

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:03 pm

This is all strangely reminiscent of the great "Eight Kings" fiasco of a few years back. There is quite an entertaining read here where RJK takes a nice lambasting from Clark Peterson over similar tardiness:

http://necromancergames.yuku.com/topic/ ... tml?page=1

You guys can make up your own minds if this is a part of a pattern or just freak coincidence. If the remainder get their books in the mail soon you can at least be thankful it didn't take over 2 years!

Cheers!

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:32 pm

islestrike wrote:There is quite an entertaining read here where RJK takes a nice lambasting from Clark Peterson over similar tardiness ...

Wow, that is one ugly thread!

I didn't think it was possible for me to be less impressed with PPP; I was wrong.

Time to hit my knees again to thank God that I never pre-order anything ...

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:42 pm

And that wasn't the last instance either. Two more companies got screwed by dealing with RJK.

As for the SE, I think mine was #18, so we can maybe see up to what number has been sent out if others post any later #s

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:54 pm

Yeah it get's quite nasty in some places. I thought the best bit came from one of the onlookers:

"If we had an emoticon of a smiley eating popcorn, I'd use it."

With all the revelations and bitch-slaps it's like being a little kid watching some movie you know you were not meant to see.

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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:15 pm

Yikes, that is pretty bad.

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