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[frumpyjones]

Wow.

My disappointment is way high now. We're coming up on mid February and still not even a peep.

I still dunno how people can defend Jimmi globe-trotting on the money he asked us to give him so he could develop the new game.

Question for the room (Vacant as it has become): How many of you are one-time pay for lifers? And how many are still paying subscribers, and is there anyone who is planning on renewing this time round, given the present (non) state-of-affairs?

[Rhox]

I'm part of the Lifetime Membership generation of this game. Therefore I will probably be playing Quadradius forever.
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[Polymorph]

I have at least 4 years to my name.
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jimmi -You fucking ungrateful bastards! Screw you all. Oh wait. That should probably go in the "I'm drunk" thread.

Russian Mike -Ahh yes... the much rumored Qrysis!

[cinder]

[bizpimp]

QÜAD 4 LiFE



'member NPT yooz guyz

[J]

Or maybe Frumpy don't like the flav of the Kool-Aid.

[OncoByte]

[mattmonyo]

[quote="cinder"]

[Rhox]

We have no clue what Jimmi is spending the money on. You don't know him personally so assuming he's blowing it all on hookers and drugs just because Qrimson isn't finished is dumb. Jimmi doesn't have to make Qrimson. He's got a perfectly good game already. He has probably hit a wall in the creative process, maybe he has lost the spark that was originally there. It happens. Don't insult the man.
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[OncoByte]

[cinder]

[Rys4k]

[Polymorph]

I'm thinking that Jimmi runs on Valve Time. He said he'll be gone for two weeks. So I'd say it's a safe bet to see him in March or April.
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jimmi -You fucking ungrateful bastards! Screw you all. Oh wait. That should probably go in the "I'm drunk" thread.

Russian Mike -Ahh yes... the much rumored Qrysis!

[frumpyjones]

You're reading too much into my posts, methinks.

How I feel is simple:

1) I bought into the game under false pretenses (According to the "become a member page" at the time there was supposed to be new power Tuesdays, yet that had actually stopped something like half a year before I got there).

2) Jimmi tells us that he's quiting his job and working on QRIMSON full time and needs our money to help, if we can (buy subsriptions and give them to friends...etc). People donate, he works, give us updates for a little bit, then disappears.

3) Little updates to QRimson continue for bit, but no real development and no word from Jimmi except for all the places he's now travelling to (Gaming Conference in San Francisco... heading off to Texas... I'm going to Japan, update in two weeks!)

If Jimmi doesn't want me to speculate then he should get his ass in here. But here's my actual guess:

He's burned out. He has hit a wall, and has no real news to report, He needs people to buy subscriptions to game, but he's done nothing with it for years and now he's tired of the new thing, the money's gone, and he doesn't know (read: have the guts) to come in and tell us, which leads to speculations like this.

There's an old adage in Customer Service that applies here: "The customer can take good news. The customer can take bad news. But a customer can never handle no news."

Not that ANYONE will have any idea what I'm talking about here, but Todd Rundgren did the same thing with The Interocitor. He led subscribers along for over a year on this really cool thing he was developing, and then finally, after many many many people complaining and speculating, and getting no news when promised, he finally came out and said it was dead and promptly everyone moved on.

An finally, I'm a paid subscriber to jimmi's work, I have every right to complain. I'm his audience and his potential customer. He'd do well to listen to me rather than all the free-for-life people who are yessing him.

I like the game. A lot. But it needs to be improved, Jimmi promised improvement and took peoples donations towards it and has nothing to really show almost a year later.

How am I the bad guy? Because I'm noting it? Because I'm not sympathetic to his need to travel the country and the world while the people who donated and subscribed to him scratch their head and wonder WTF?

You may find this next part hard to believe but I want him to succeed. i think the game is fantastic and challenging and frustrating. But he's got to be honest with himself and us.

It's as simple as that.

[J]

Frumpy, you are violating the "Dont bash Jimmi" rule posted by a moderator some time ago.