I pre-ordered Skull & Shackles Part 1 awhile back thinking of an early March shipping date. However, this morning Amazon.com sent me an email stating that the release date has been pushed back and now the estimated delivery estimate is July 16-20, 2012!
What's going on?
Thanks.
Big D!
The current offical-estimate release date is late April.
The short version of "why" is that the paizo staff are trying to juggle many balls right now and they weren't able to get Book 1 to the printer sufficiently in advance of when Asian New Year kicked in and their printer went on extended holiday.
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The truth is we wouldn't hand the printed version over to the salty land-lubbers at Paizo until they paid us the pieces of eight we demanded.
Ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!
The truth is we wouldn't hand the printed version over to the salty land-lubbers at Paizo until they paid us the pieces of eight we demanded.
Ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!
And here I was, thinking you were taking extra time to plan out yet more blood-spattered encounters for us GMs to beset our players with.
Like bonus encounters with sharks any time one of the hapless characters or NPCs falls overboard. Hey: it's a Richard Pett adventure - I'm just running it as written!
Well getting Paizo stuff out of the US always takes longer time.
Also credit cards are not as cheap and available elsewhere.
Having a Paizo distribution center that is directly stocked from China could make things easier.
Anyway, does Paizo have stuff members that can speak chinese or now chinese costums?
There are some players that can speak chinese and japanese, looking for a job at the end of the year. *wink*
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Well getting Paizo stuff out of the US always takes longer time.
Also credit cards are not as cheap and available elsewhere.Having a Paizo distribution center that is directly stocked from China could make things easier.
Anyway, does Paizo have stuff members that can speak chinese or now chinese costums?
There are some players that can speak chinese and japanese, looking for a job at the end of the year. *wink*
China to US postage would kill the business, are you ready for 20 USD p'n'p on every package? :)
Of course its shipped from China to US on containerships.
I suggested to ship some directly to europe.
Here you have to wait and pay for international shipment.
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Paizo did try an EU distribution center back in the Dragon/Dungeon era. It didn't work.
Frankly, non-US/Canada sales of any RPG business are some 20-30% of total at very best (and that's entire rest of the world), so it's a long road ahead until making a tighter focus on EU customers becomes a top priority for anybody in the business. Sad, but true.
Ah i see you are european too. Nice!
Pathfinder is actually translated into german and sold here by one publishing company, but that always takes ages.
How do you know those numbers?
Huh i don´t really know.
In germany the most famous RPG´s are probably Shadowrun and DSA ( a german one), then Midgard and D&D.
Also warhammer and wargames are quite famous. Judging to the distribution of warhammer stores all around here, represantation is a factor.
You see a lot of Comic and Mangastores too.
People here really love games, probably we have the most board games in the world.
Only RPG´s are somehow underrepresented.
If that would/could be changed, things could change too.
Just my opinion.
A cool computer game could help a lot there too.
I've had a stint in a company that deals with RPG accessories at some point, and since I was handling some of the sales I've learned the brutal truth about RPG sales worldwide. But that was some years back, maybe things changed since.
Which company was that?