andyc
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Post by andyc on Jul 13, 2020 17:34:06 GMT
Ordered the new Collector's Edition on the 1st July and still no sign of it. Clicking on the tracking link reveals:
Your order is confirmed
We’ve accepted your order, and we’re getting it ready. Come back to this page for updates on your shipment status.
Have emailed them last Friday and still no word. Maybe I'm being impatient, but is anyone else having the same problem?
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Post by Black Cat on Jul 13, 2020 19:33:48 GMT
Where do you live? I'm from Canada and I've ordered book 25 when it was released back in mid-April. It arrived... mid-June! That's two whole months later. With the current coronavirus situation, there are some delays and Ben clearly mentionned that when book 25 was released. So yeah, I think you are a little bit impatient.
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Post by andyc on Jul 13, 2020 20:11:42 GMT
Where do you live? I'm from Canada and I've ordered book 25 when it was released back in mid-April. It arrived... mid-June! That's two whole months later. With the current coronavirus situation, there are some delays and Ben clearly mentionned that when book 25 was released. So yeah, I think you are a little bit impatient. Ha ha, maybe. However I am in the UK, and it hasn't even been posted according to them despite almost two weeks going by. Maybe they are having difficulty with the sellotape and they can't find where it starts.
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Post by Black Cat on Jul 14, 2020 15:37:27 GMT
However I am in the UK, and it hasn't even been posted according to them despite almost two weeks going by. Maybe they are having difficulty with the sellotape and they can't find where it starts. By experience, if you didn't select the "Track package" option when you ordered the book, you will not get any update on the status of your order. It might already be shipped and you'll get it in the upcoming days.
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Post by wisestrider on Jul 14, 2020 22:40:00 GMT
I tracked my order - was posted on Monday and arrived Wednesday this week. So orders are going out at least (I'm in the UK - assume orders to other countries will take longer to arrive).
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Post by wisestrider on Jul 14, 2020 22:49:34 GMT
Just to clarify when you select tracked delivery you get a separate email from Hermies (the courier company) once they receive your order.
And the timescale for this book is similar to when I've pre-ordered the day it goes live in the past - 1-2 weeks until the order is sent, then a couple of days to deliver - although I expect larger orders will take longer to all be cleared (so 2-3 weeks from date the pre-orders go live on the website feels like a reasonable timescale in the worst case). When not pre-ordering and you just buy stock, I assume orders are more likely to go out the same week they are made - which might be what you've done before?
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Post by Nym90 on Jul 15, 2020 17:52:39 GMT
Delivery of mail, post, packages, and parcels is certainly slower than normal now due to the virus....Ordering tracked delivery definitely seems wise for peace of mind.
In the past I have ordered here in the US without tracked delivery and it takes about a month for me to receive my book, sometimes as long as 6 weeks.
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Post by andyc on Jul 15, 2020 18:09:02 GMT
Well it turns out I am an impatient sod as it has just been delivered today. I didn't go for the tracked option so that explains the lack of any update to it being posted (kind of).
As usual, it is a beautiful book. I personally find the Holmgard editions beat the Manticore and especially Mongoose editions in aesthetics, not just because of the separate dust cover with beautiful map on the inside. It also helps that I prefer Brian Williams' art to the replacement art in the Mongoose books, though Nerdgore may well bring it to a new level in the Definitive Editions.
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Post by Lucy Van Pelt on Jul 16, 2020 13:46:28 GMT
Well it turns out I am an impatient sod as it has just been delivered today. I didn't go for the tracked option so that explains the lack of any update to it being posted (kind of). As usual, it is a beautiful book. I personally find the Holmgard editions beat the Manticore and especially Mongoose editions in aesthetics, not just because of the separate dust cover with beautiful map on the inside. It also helps that I prefer Brian Williams' art to the replacement art in the Mongoose books, though Nerdgore may well bring it to a new level in the Definitive Editions. Actually, books 1 to 22 should be reprinted in Holmgard fashion. There is no need to print the definitive edition.
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Post by Black Cat on Jul 17, 2020 16:56:44 GMT
There is no need to print the definitive edition. Well, since Holmgard doesn't have the rights to use the work made by previous illustrators, they can't just go and market them as "2nd edition of the Collector's Edition with new illustrations but no bonus adventure". The "Definitive Edition" label will just mean that it will be the very last version of the gamebooks we get (unless they reprint them with different content in 10-20 years), all printed in the "Holmgard fashion" as you've mentionned. So yeah, there's a need for the "2nd edition of the Collector's Edition with new illustrations but no bonus adventure printed in the Holmgard fashion", aka the Definitive Edition.
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Post by andyc on Jul 17, 2020 17:46:11 GMT
There is no need to print the definitive edition. Well, since Holmgard doesn't have the rights to use the work made by previous illustrators, they can't just go and market them as "2nd edition of the Collector's Edition with new illustrations but no bonus adventure". The "Definitive Edition" label will just mean that it will be the very last version of the gamebooks we get (unless they reprint them with different content in 10-20 years), all printed in the "Holmgard fashion" as you've mentionned. So yeah, there's a need for the "2nd edition of the Collector's Edition with new illustrations but no bonus adventure printed in the Holmgard fashion", aka the Definitive Edition. I definitely agree with you there Black cat. I think there will be more interest in buying the original books with new illustrations of the high quality that Nerdgore produces, rather than a new edition of what has already been sold. The early book bonus adventures seemed a bit short and disappointing, so I don't think we lose much by not having them. My only problem is my personal dislike for the expanded 550 section version of FFTD as opposed to the original. I think if I would chose a perfect version, I would include the Monastery siege as a prelude mini adventure, before beginning at the start of the original. The longer prose as well as the bit with the Cener druids and the climatic Helghast fight detracts from the beautiful simplicity and ease of book #1.
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Post by andyc on Jul 17, 2020 19:22:29 GMT
Odd they haven't posted about Fall of Blood Mountain releasing on the Facebook page. Perhaps to limit the number all ordering at once if they are having trouble getting them all out in a timely fashion.
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Post by spartanroarke on Jul 18, 2020 2:49:37 GMT
Still no tracking for my copy (to the US), which was ordered on release day. It's no big deal, but previous books shipped much quicker than this one, at least for me.
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Post by Nym90 on Jul 19, 2020 5:42:18 GMT
Well it turns out I am an impatient sod as it has just been delivered today. I didn't go for the tracked option so that explains the lack of any update to it being posted (kind of). As usual, it is a beautiful book. I personally find the Holmgard editions beat the Manticore and especially Mongoose editions in aesthetics, not just because of the separate dust cover with beautiful map on the inside. It also helps that I prefer Brian Williams' art to the replacement art in the Mongoose books, though Nerdgore may well bring it to a new level in the Definitive Editions. Actually, books 1 to 22 should be reprinted in Holmgard fashion. There is no need to print the definitive edition. Books 18, 21, and 22 were released by Holmgard Press prior to Joe's death.
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Post by Black Cat on Jul 19, 2020 12:48:10 GMT
Actually, books 1 to 22 should be reprinted in Holmgard fashion. There is no need to print the definitive edition. Books 18, 21, and 22 were released by Holmgard Press prior to Joe's death. They were not released by Holmgard Press but Mantikore Verlag. Book 23 was scheduled to be released by this German publisher but when Joe decided to move to Cubicle 7 (which, a month later, decided in turn to NOT print the gamebooks, leading to Joe creating Holmgard Press), the book was ready to be released. After publishing book 29, Holmgard Press released the Collector's Edition of book 23 as it was. This explains why of all the books released by Holmgard Press, book 23 is the only one with a cover illustration not made by Alberto Dal Lago.
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