If you haven't yet checked out Eclipse Phase, please do remember that it's Creative Commons licensed and freely re-distributable. So, give it to your friends! (or beg one of them for it, as appropriate.... )

I <3 Catalyst and Posthuman for making EP CC. I burned the PDF onto CDs and gave them to my buddies. Sadly, they're all D&D4E addicts.

It took a lot of effort to convince Catalyst that Creative Commons and lower PDF prices was the right thing to do ... but it was the right thing to do, and Posthuman is all about that.

The Eclipse Phase PDF is not hard to find, really.

I'm not entirely sure, if it is ok to post a link to a downloadable pdf here, though.

Bye
Thanee

It should be ok, though the link should probably go in General Gaming since it's non-Shadowrun, I would guess. The Creative Commons license that it uses makes it available for free via Torrent Downloads. The only caveat is that if you like it, please consider buying it once Posthuman Studios gets sales sorted out. It's a great game, and Rob, Brian, Adam, and Co did a fantastic job with it, and deserve to be supported for it.

Bull

There you go!

Eclipse Phase Download

Bye
Thanee

Not to be a bother, but the stated timeframe is long past. Any update on when we'll hear new information?

I just want to point out that it's not just free via torrent downloads. It's freely redistributable, period, as long as you don't take away anyone's permissions. Share it via torrent, P2P, put it on a thumbdrive and pass that thumbdrive around your gaming group, print out a copy for your friend and a second copy for when he accidentally drops some papers into the bathtub.

More readers, more players, more better. Peer-to-peer is not a crime. It's how we have shared things, forever. Technology just makes it better, and gives us more peers.

Well, i thought i'd throw this in here:
http://www.complexactions.com/comic/084.jpg

Bahaha, nice find

I concur. We were supposed to receive an update last week. The lack of an response is rather disconcerting.

Sorry we haven't had a definitive date yet. The LEs will be sent by a distributor, so we're waiting to hear from them about the definitive date. Stephen McQuillan previously said the LEs are in the distributor's warehouse.

Jason H.

I hope this doesn't come off as jerkish...

You said Randal Bills was going to make an announcement, and that you were going to do what you could to make that happen. Why couldn't Mr. Bills give *anything* at all? Was your original timeline simply too optimistic? Are they not giving you information enough to let you realistically measure this stuff?

Honestly, as a consumer, it's feeling more and more like these things are never going to show. It's disturbing that every timeline given passes with no reason or comment until the fan base starts making a stink. I love this game. I've enjoyed the work CGL has done to bring SR along. But for pete's sake, if the spokesperson for the company keeps giving false information (whether intentional or through misinformation from your own superiors and cohorts), then how are we as consumers supposed to feel? I want to trust that CGL will make it, and that things will get better, but this constant misinformation is making it really hard to do.

I'm sorry the official announcement hasn't come--we're waiting to get the official street date, and as soon as we have it (which I'm told will be soon), you'll all know it.

Jason H.

I'm starting to feel like the rumor about them being in limbo has some truth to it.

And I concur, it seems like the odds of these books showing is dwindling steadily.

And in this thread alone, it's shown that we were intentionally mislead, not even about the timeframe, which can be a mercurial thing, but about the process that we get the books shipped to us.

What I want to know is if the dude who asked is getting his money back. If he gets jerked around or not is going to be of intense interest to me.

Chances are that will fall under the "not our business" category. Unless the poster in question decides to out the info that is. And even so, it's not really our business.

It would however be the business of other parties, such as the Better Business Bureau or such.

Just a note (which I also posted in the Spec thread #6). In Battlecorps my pre-order used to say "Pending" which I just checked it today and it now says " SR4LE Pre-order".

Jason,

I have a great deal of sympathy for your position here. I understand that you can not pass on information that has not been provided to you.

Please advise those who do have the information that making promises about release of information and then failing to do so only harms your reputation on this forum and only adds to the speculation / rumour / innuendo and falling credibility of Catalyst amongst its fanbase.

No doubt this is stressful for you and I hope that management do the right thing and provide you with the information which will alleviate the pressure.

Hello all,

Just dropping by to post an update...was hoping to have a specific Street Date today, but the distributor asked for another day to verify on his side.

Regardless, the SRLEs are in house at two of the three primary distributors we use (on its way to that third distributor now). They're starting shipping and I hope in the next day or so to get a verification from the warehouse of the exact Street Date (note that usually speaking, from the time it's in the warehouse until the street date is less than 21 days...but it's been in warehouse for almost a week already).

Thanks for all your patience...

Again, as soon as I have more specific info, I'll post it.


Randall

I want to be the first to say: Halle-frickin-lujah!

OH CRAP! I just put 2 and 2 together!

SR4A LE is printed on iPad 3Gs!

That explains it all!

Yeah, if only life were that good!

Shadowrun 20th Anniversary Limited Edition Street Date

It’s been a far, far tougher run than any of us imaged, but we finally have a Street Date for the Shadowrun 20th Anniversary Limited Edition book: May 3rd

Thanks to everyone for your patience!


Randall

Cool a STREET date when everyone can buy it at places like game stores and what not.

So.......................................

When do I get my pre-ordered copy I paid for when they were first offered like 16 months ago??????????

Great news. I'll expect to see my copy on the 3rd. I'm sure an email notification to the folks who preordered would not go amiss. I'd love to see one simply to know that everything is fine with my preorder and that I won't have to worry about any complications in two weeks.

Should be at approximately the same time.

Jason H.

May 3rd? That's too long. I want to cance... err...

You know what, I'm not even gonna joke about that Send me mah book!

This is good news for me. The moment this comes in, I am allowed to by the TRO:** line for Battletech. And now I can budget for a few weeks.

BlueMax

I too would love to see an email confirming the upcoming shipment. Given the time gaps it would give people an opportunity to make sure that all of the information is still current. I know I had to pry and pry to find someone to update the address for my order since I have moved in the last year. I would bet I'm not the only person that would like to verify that my order will in fact be processed correctly.

However, this is not the level of customer support that I expect from CGL on the whole.

I'm glad that my pessimism is unfounded.

Though I still expect the books to be mailed to preorder folks on the 3rd. Many places do this.

HUZZAH!

Battleshop have just changed my Order status to "Processing"

Looking forward to the next status change which should hopefully say "Shipped"!

Mine too!

Now if they would do the same for my Runner's Companion.

Grexul

Fantastic we have a street date Jason/Randall.

In regards to my previous worries about Vice being in the same order, can you suggest whether the situation with Vice is likely to be rectified before said date? Otherwise I will be removing Vice from the order, unless, you don't mind paying the postage to have my Vice sent out separately when its available I think the pricing to ship to Australia is ridiculous anyways...

Still no change on my order. Is quartermaster@catalystgamelabs.com still the contact to use if I want an update?

Yes, that is the correct address to use. Nemafow, I believe Vice should be taken care of before May 3rd, but let me check on the situation.

Jason H.

Hi Jason,

Appreciate that, thanks

QFT!

Rejoice!
After 2 months spent in the Pre-order status, i just got a mail telling me the it is being processed (SR4 LE + 2072 books)
Sooooon ™

Umm ... my status hasn't changed one bit since I placed the order on 03/18/2009 and is still pending. Should I be concerned?

I'm still skeptical, but we'll see what happens that first week of May.

I just got the e-mail changing my status also!
Huzzah indeed.

Grexul

No change for me as of an hour ago...

My status is unchanged at "SR4LE preorder", whatever that means...

Hmm, what with Troy leaving and taking his computer with him when he left, which was more or less seemingly used as the shipping computer . .
And Randall Bills wife seemingly doing the shipping when she finds the time to do so . . can they still figure out who is supposed to get what right now?

We'll know in some weeks I guess.

I think the fact that people who order from Battlecorps are receiving email updates is a pretty good sign that the "Troy's Computer" rumor is not true. I could certainly be wrong, tho.

I didn't get any updates so far, and I ordered from BC long ago.

I hope I'm not violating anything by posting the contents of an email from battlecorps but in the hope to alleviate some fears, I received the below reply today when I asked about my order status:



It sounds like they are punching through the orders as we speak. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

I don't think I've ever gotten e-mail updates, so no skin off my back.