I was disappointed when I heard that you were dropping from your 12 issues a year schedule to a 6 issues per year schedule.
It's not happening. Will it return to at least 6/year?
The Sword of Rhiannon March 2009
Robots Have No Tails June 2009
The Ship of Ishtar Oct 2009
Steppe Dec 2009
The Complete Silver John Mar 2010
This is 1/quarter schedule
Please move it back to 6/year or 9 or 12/year if you can. I do understand that many of your subscribers were falling behind and understand that change, but always hope for more.
Kata the ...
I was disappointed when I heard that you were dropping from your 12 issues a year schedule to a 6 issues per year schedule.
It's not happening. Will it return to at least 6/year?
The Sword of Rhiannon March 2009
Robots Have No Tails June 2009
The Ship of Ishtar Oct 2009
Steppe Dec 2009
The Complete Silver John Mar 2010This is 1/quarter schedule
Please move it back to 6/year or 9 or 12/year if you can. I do understand that many of your subscribers were falling behind and understand that change, but always hope for more.
Kata the ...
I may be speaking out of turn here (so please correct me if I'm wrong) but I think the major cause of delay, and why we only saw 4 books from March to December, was partially due to the PFRPG schedule. I'm not sure how much Eric helps with the RPG and the game setting material, but I've a sneaky suspicion that the scope of the project on gaming side interfered on the Planet Stories side. I remember some delays being mention, specifically about the "Ship of Ishtar" and that book alone being late may have pushed the others back (my search-fu is weak though, so I'm not sure where the info is, or how accurate.)
If you look at the current schedule, from this point, till the end of the year, there are six books coming out. Now hopefully there will be no other delays and we'll be able to get those books when they are scheduled to release. It does look like the next couple of months we'll be getting one, then the schedule will be caught up again and it'll be back to the 6 a year.
(If anybody has contradictory info that is more accurate, and more enlightening, please post)
I may be speaking out of turn here (so please correct me if I'm wrong) but I think the major cause of delay, and why we only saw 4 books from March to December, was partially due to the PFRPG schedule. I'm not sure how much Eric helps with the RPG and the game setting material, but I've a sneaky suspicion that the scope of the project on gaming side interfered on the Planet Stories side. I remember some delays being mention, specifically about the "Ship of Ishtar" and that book alone being late may have pushed the others back (my search-fu is weak though, so I'm not sure where the info is, or how accurate.)
A fair assessment. Erik, James, and I (along with all hands here at Paizo) have been rolling the giant boulder called the Pathfinder RPG up the nearly vertical Schedule Mountain, trying to keep everything on track. Without Pathfinder, of course, Planet Stories would not exist. The good news is, we are seeing returns for our efforts and Planet Stories looks to be catching up.
What Chris said. Sos the Rope should be coming in before too long, Walrus and the Warwolf is at the printer (with an AMAZING cover and a China Miéville introduction!), and after that we expect to catch up pretty quickly. I suspect that we'll be back to a solid every-other-month release schedule in the next book or two. Thanks for being patient!