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Re: Changes at Hero This is so sad. I have continued to support Herogames due to Steve and all the fun he supplied me over the years. I wish the best for him and Darren.

Re: Champions Villains Volume Three: Solo Villains when will it be on the shelf? NNU again in Friday update.....

Re: Champions Villains Volume Three: Solo Villains when will it be on the shelf? No apology needed, I don’t think you should have even said this. You had a rant, your passionate about hero, he replied, he clarified a few items that you may have not known, ie. sales. It probably should have stopped there, but you have your voice and he, albeit arrogant and condescending it is, has his voice. I never felt you broached talking for the fanbase. He "may have received comments from others", but wasn't from me. Ranting at Hero doesn’t help, yes, but asking after a bit of time the status should be acceptable, especially if done with a little less rant. I get everything that has been said: 1. Poor sales (for what ever reason, 5e being around, waiting for set, price point, GM vs player resources, etc); 2. Strategic resource allocation/prioritization for maximum revenue stream, especially for an industry wide event; 3. Bad supplier and/or supplier management with a printer they may or may not have a lot of influence/leverage with; 4. Deciding to continue other products to maintain revenue stream and increase capital that may be needed to print these products. I have managed 15 years in an industry leading company to understand this. The only thing I don’t understand is why this never gets brought up in the weekly homepage communication from Mr. Long. I understand not bringing this into every weekly update, be it lack of new developments or purely not to be doom and gloom, but even it was included biweekly or monthly (its been that long) with a simple communication snippet about status would help defuse tensions. And this is the official communication method, I am not asking "Steve, Fred and the Fraim Brothers to stop work on other projects" to communicate in the forums, that they do communicate with fans says something about them and their company, but is not expected in any form. That the official communication method doesn’t address this, say once a month, is surprising.

Re: Champions Beyond I have to say I hate Steve Long...... I was boycotting hero products until the CVIII hardcover came out. Unfortunately, at the FLGS today I picked up Champions Beyond. It was a really good book so I had to buy it. Lots of good fluff and adv ideas, a lot of archetype like stuff (GL, Nova Corps etc deja vu) but different enough to be interesting. The Gadroon chapter made me actually interested in the Empiress book coming out. I would say the best Herogames "Cosmic" Book yet. Darn your good writing and your little dog too.... Only negative.....it referenced CVIII for Galaxia....... Tommy

Re: Champions Villains, Volume 3: Solo Villains

Re: Champions Villains, Volume 3: Solo Villains Is there any update on this product, its been about 3-4 weeks since it was in a printer logjam? None of the frontpage updates have had a mention of it other than Darrin is working printer issues.

Re: Champions Villains Volume Three: Solo Villains when will it be on the shelf? 1) Its was a joke. 2) I am glad you are graced with such a princely attribute. I unfortunately do not have patience, helps with my job as Program Manager for tech firm, sucks with my personal life. 3) I was playing champions from the BBB on, was a huge fan of the Pre-DOJ Steve Long Dark Champions, I own almost champions product printed in my collection so yes, I remember those days too, and also the time before that in the BBB/pre-BBB era where output was pretty good too. I use the Three Galaxies (Palladium) for space games, L5r (AEG) is a huge portion of my budget, I know near zero output and missed schedules...... 4) I also dont use Pulp Hero, Fantasy Hero, or Star Hero. I switched to M&M two years ago for the system and Freedom setting ( dont like M City at all, but do use Vibora Bay) but use as my villains CCC/Champions universe villains, old friends I know well, M&M for crunch/Champions for Fluff. So I only care about the champions villains books. 5) I love the Champions Villains, but after 4+ revisions of Champions (including CtNM, some cool ideas there), I pretty much have 3-4 books with the same villains that are in these books, but A) I love the artwork, I like some of the changes, and C) again fan/supporter of Steve/DOJ. Otherwise, I wouldnt be paying a good chunk of change for what I really already have. I bought the core books and dont use them just because I hope that helps keep champions alive. So sorry my joke offended, hadn't posted in a while, probably wont again. Take care. T

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