I have to admit, that I am a bit amused about the situation. I'll get my GERMAN TRANSLATION of the book on october 13th. ^^

The "Classic" label is only to distinguish it from the "new" Mechwarrior line, which is a collectible miniatures game (by WizKids, the same folks who make Mage Knight).

OMFG! Book am late! I am teh hate Fanpro now! DEAFH To PHANPRO!


Thanks Discount Games. Now I know who to hate most in the whole wide world. The book is going to be late, possibly by a week or two, or even more.

Oh noes. I've spent more than a week of my life waiting for late trains. I really couldn't care less, as long as eventually the book finds its way into my hands.

In fact, this gives me time to scrape together money to buy the thing, so thanks for the extra time Fanpro. Much appreciated.

I mean, seriously, who didn't expect the book to be delayed? Anyone? Every other book has been delayed a little, and everyone screams like it's a surprise when this one gets delayed. Live with it. It's a book.

I'm sure there's a sane middle ground somewhere between the enraged swarm of rioting peasents storming Castle Fanpro and nonplus suggestions to completely abandon holding the company to any standards when it comes to actually publishing a book.

Some people are certainly being melodramatic about it, but there's nothing wrong in pointing out that missing released dates is irritating. The wrong impression would be given if nobody seemed to mind a chronically sliding release date. Heck, unless the posters are literary masochists, the reason they're upset is they really want the product.

Or they could simply be getting off by trolling. But I'm sure nobody here would possibly be doing that.

Ultimately: shit happens, and from the sound of it this particular delay isn't Fanpro's fault. I only hope they learn from the experience and pad their estimates more in the future.

I hope they learn not to use the company that is binding thier books.
It is odd that the shadowrunrpg site hasn't changed / amended the release date.

What I want to know, is this supposed "problem at the binders" just with the regular print run, or is it affecting the Limited Edition as well? Are the copies of the Limited Edition that weren't put out at GenCon sitting in some warehouse somewhere, because either the binder or the distributer is refusing to ship them until the regular edition ships too?

Runner paul, i'd say it's possible, in an attempt to prevent retailers from from receiving their LE's that people ordered, and then canceling thier "unneeded" (potentially" Reg. editions, that they may've ordered to meet the requirments.

At this point, they're running the risk of having the retailers not need any copies -- Limited, or otherwise, due to an alienated customerbase.

Here is what I just got from Studio 2 when asking about my preorder from August.

Hi Adam,

The printer had a slight delay. The books are actually shipping
this
week and you should have yours in hand next Tuesday.

Word to the wise: Tomarrow is never Today.

The Earth will meet the Sky, and the end of the world will ensue.......

What is the status on the book? Any official update? Adam?

Ok, I work in a bookstore... Every month I'd say at least 40% of books are delayed for one reason or another. Feast for Crows by GRRM has had as many missed release dates as humanly possible, Robert Jordan is caught up in litigation with TOR which has basically changed Knife of Dreams release date to "the day after it shows up in our reciving department". It isn't limited to Fantasy either. Heck Salman Rushdie's new book Shambla(sp?) the Clown got delayed by a few days due to a missed shipment. I've heard every kind of customer bitching about missed release dates from "I need it for my kids birthday tommorow." to "YOU STUPID SON OF A %&#^ WHAT THE @*#&!@ DO YOU THINK YOU'RE $*(%*ING DOING NOT HAVING MY @(#&* BOOK IN YOU DUMB @(#*$" Trust me it's just par for the course for books.

And by now I even know why UPS charges such an enormous amount of money for international deliverys (79$ in my case). They only need 2 days for the delivery. MUAHAHAHA! So there is still a chance for me to get the LE before I get the german version.

And in reality, customers bitch even when it isn't reasonable. Deal with the fact that they're doing it when it is.

~J

On October 4, 2005, at 2:53:21 PM (PDT) I received an email from UPS, informing me that my order from Studio2 Publishing is underway. At 5:51 PM UPS received billing information and at 7:59 PM UPS had done the Origin scan in Knoxville TN, and is on schedual to be delivered on the 11th of October.

There is one and only one thing that I have on order from Studio2; the LE SR4.

Of course I know this is all the work of the Illuminati, whose powerful, to scale, replica of the Bohr atom quantum interferometer feeds off the dashed hopes of gamers everywhere so they can power their powerful powerplant of world power dominational derivative and anti-derivative accelerator which heats their blood stained tea in their blood stained tea-sipping rooms and that the book doesn't even exist and isn't even in TN, and is even with the UPS (who don't even exist anyway), even though I know all this; I'm still pritty excited.

As a well conected Johnson, I'll let those of you who are interested in on when the shipment's on its way, and its general route. The pay is good, but beware the UPS Mechanized Assault and Delivery Agency Machines (MADAM) as they are both deadly and redundant.

I guess that the target number for the release date was too high... Oh wait!!! We are talking about SR4 now... so hmmm... That mean that they botched on the extended test!

Just got the update from Amazon. Shipping 11/4-11/16. Shameful.

I just got the email-confimation from UPS that my Limited Edition from Studio 2 has been shipped!!!

Amazon has always been about a month late, from the time the books appear in my local game stores, but that's with game companies with big distributors, like Wizards o the Coast. For Shadowrun, I've had wait periods of up to three months. For just about everything else, school, music and DVDs, they've been fine. But with the game stuff, I've even pre-ordered stuff, waited the extra month, Amazon then lists the product as "Available and ready to ship" on their normal page but they don't update my pre-order (sometimes for over two weeks), so then I've cancled the order, re-ordered it and it's shipped the same day on several occasions, and the next day at the worst.

Fast
Good
Cheap

Pick two, because you can't have the three of them.

I remember my SR3 book. It arrived in November '98 (it came out in August, didn't it?) and I had to pay $60 for it.

Amazon is usually pretty fast, I ordered a DVD on Monday and received it today (Thursday).

Just got this from Amazon UK

"We are sorry to report that the release of the following item has been cancelled: 'Shadowrun'
This item has now been cancelled from your order."

I hope things get sorted soon.

Well that least that was fast.

UPS just delivered the book. I am now the proud owner of Limited Edition No. 411.

not sure whether to envy or despise you Oracle.

maybe I'll just go drown my sorrows in Earthdawn instead.

Studio 2 Publishing. I'm really satisfied with what I got. The book has taken no damage from transport. And it took only two days - from the US to Germany.

Earthdawn? Hmm...yes that was the second package that arrived this morning. My ED collection is complete at last. It's a good day. Obviously.