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Oct. 28th, 2003
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Oct. 28th, 2003 02:13 pm-10:39 AM: Blah.
I got a wedding invite in the mail, yesterday. It's for a friend I kept in touch with through high school and college, who went off into the Navy, became really shallow, and is now marrying the little sister of a mutual friend.
Of course, it's the little sister of my best friend, whose wife just had a baby girl last week. The Christening is the middle of November.
I guess I'm happy for people, but it doesn't make me feel any less wretched and worthless.
I got a wedding invite in the mail, yesterday. It's for a friend I kept in touch with through high school and college, who went off into the Navy, became really shallow, and is now marrying the little sister of a mutual friend.
Of course, it's the little sister of my best friend, whose wife just had a baby girl last week. The Christening is the middle of November.
I guess I'm happy for people, but it doesn't make me feel any less wretched and worthless.
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Oct. 28th, 2003 02:15 pm-11:17 AM:
So while Crossgen has been having some major problems lately, resulting in wiping out most of their Sigilverse books over the next few months, there have been other aspects that are continuing. They're releasing new books, and are keeping some titles (Way of the Rat, Sojourn, El Cazador) while taking out a lot of the main unverse things (Scion, Crux, Ruse...and let's face it after Waid left Ruse's writing could suck the copper out of a penny.)
But.
What I found out this morning was this: They're cancelling Crossovers.
Now, Crossovers goes under Crossgen's 'Code 6' imprint. Meaning that it has no Sigilverse connection, and stands alone. It ends with issue 9.
Which comes out next week.
This is, of course, after later issues, up to #12, were being solicited as recent as last week. We seeing the problem, now?
Now, I'm going to wait until said last issue comes out next week before I jump to any conclusions, or open that little lock inside my head that keeps my temper on a very tight leash. But...there's a better-than-average chance that this book is going to be cancelled in Mid-Story. In. Mid. Story.
I'm not so sure I have issues with books being cancelled. It's happened so goddamn often in my life I've sorta numbed myself to the feeling of loss that comes with it. And...while I love this one book, books get cancelled. It happens. Cancelling a book in the middle of a storyline is just poor business, though. I mean, they might have a plot resolution already done, an 'emergency ending' perhaps. It will be abrupt, but I will deal.
But if they cancel a book in mid story...I will more than likely drop every Crossgen book out of a wish not to deal with a company that does business in this fashion. This would involve me dropping 11 books, and @ $2.95 each gives me a monthly savings of $32.45.
If the book were cancelled, with another issue or two to finish the current storyline, hey, fine, I can deal with that. But just cutting it off in the middle of a storyline is a sure way to alienate readers. And I will be one of them.
If that is how it happens. We'll know next week.
Bright side, though: New New Mutants this week and next, and another issue like 2 weeks after that.
So while Crossgen has been having some major problems lately, resulting in wiping out most of their Sigilverse books over the next few months, there have been other aspects that are continuing. They're releasing new books, and are keeping some titles (Way of the Rat, Sojourn, El Cazador) while taking out a lot of the main unverse things (Scion, Crux, Ruse...and let's face it after Waid left Ruse's writing could suck the copper out of a penny.)
But.
What I found out this morning was this: They're cancelling Crossovers.
Now, Crossovers goes under Crossgen's 'Code 6' imprint. Meaning that it has no Sigilverse connection, and stands alone. It ends with issue 9.
Which comes out next week.
This is, of course, after later issues, up to #12, were being solicited as recent as last week. We seeing the problem, now?
Now, I'm going to wait until said last issue comes out next week before I jump to any conclusions, or open that little lock inside my head that keeps my temper on a very tight leash. But...there's a better-than-average chance that this book is going to be cancelled in Mid-Story. In. Mid. Story.
I'm not so sure I have issues with books being cancelled. It's happened so goddamn often in my life I've sorta numbed myself to the feeling of loss that comes with it. And...while I love this one book, books get cancelled. It happens. Cancelling a book in the middle of a storyline is just poor business, though. I mean, they might have a plot resolution already done, an 'emergency ending' perhaps. It will be abrupt, but I will deal.
But if they cancel a book in mid story...I will more than likely drop every Crossgen book out of a wish not to deal with a company that does business in this fashion. This would involve me dropping 11 books, and @ $2.95 each gives me a monthly savings of $32.45.
If the book were cancelled, with another issue or two to finish the current storyline, hey, fine, I can deal with that. But just cutting it off in the middle of a storyline is a sure way to alienate readers. And I will be one of them.
If that is how it happens. We'll know next week.
Bright side, though: New New Mutants this week and next, and another issue like 2 weeks after that.
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Oct. 28th, 2003 02:15 pm-12:40 PM
Something one of my gamer friends RL said a long time ago. "People want the D&D games to play like a video game, with levels and fights, and that's where they get disappointed."
In some ways, I can see this being true. I know a lot of gamers who tend to get listless during downtime, and I have done so myself. But, something struck me a few minutes ago, in my wandering throughts.
The games I usually play, console-wise, are RPGs. Most of my Rom files are RPGs...
And you know something? In a good console RPG, you end up giving a damn about the characters. I know one MUSher who said she wants to be Chris from SUikoden 3 when she grows up. (I wouldn't mind being that tough, either, but I would have serious issues with having breasts, like Chris does. I'd much rather be Fred.) I know people who are STILL pissed over Aerys in FF7. I know I was made virulently angry at the end of Phantasy Star 2 (ask![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kaibara about that one. She knows I am still cheesed over that ending).
Why?
Because they're characters that, as players and viewers of the story in a console RPg, we care about. We keep playing the game so we get more of the story so we find out if they succeed, and what happens to them. Because we care about what happens to the characters. (Oddly enough, I stopped playing FF7 because I found myself not caring what happened to them.)
And it hit me...Eur-fucking-eka. That's it.
That's what I want out of my tabletop. Characters and stories like THAT.
I am almost flipping out right now, actually excited. I finally know what I want out of my gaming.
So now, ladies and gents, it's time to make things happen.
Something one of my gamer friends RL said a long time ago. "People want the D&D games to play like a video game, with levels and fights, and that's where they get disappointed."
In some ways, I can see this being true. I know a lot of gamers who tend to get listless during downtime, and I have done so myself. But, something struck me a few minutes ago, in my wandering throughts.
The games I usually play, console-wise, are RPGs. Most of my Rom files are RPGs...
And you know something? In a good console RPG, you end up giving a damn about the characters. I know one MUSher who said she wants to be Chris from SUikoden 3 when she grows up. (I wouldn't mind being that tough, either, but I would have serious issues with having breasts, like Chris does. I'd much rather be Fred.) I know people who are STILL pissed over Aerys in FF7. I know I was made virulently angry at the end of Phantasy Star 2 (ask
kaibara about that one. She knows I am still cheesed over that ending).Why?
Because they're characters that, as players and viewers of the story in a console RPg, we care about. We keep playing the game so we get more of the story so we find out if they succeed, and what happens to them. Because we care about what happens to the characters. (Oddly enough, I stopped playing FF7 because I found myself not caring what happened to them.)
And it hit me...Eur-fucking-eka. That's it.
That's what I want out of my tabletop. Characters and stories like THAT.
I am almost flipping out right now, actually excited. I finally know what I want out of my gaming.
So now, ladies and gents, it's time to make things happen.