Something...strange.

On the other hand Mr. DeVries looks like to be a really nice guy (if one looks at his postings here). And the other "Value" publishers out there are not that good looking either. The only two value publishers with a professional website seem to be egames and XTreme Games. I don''t like both companies.
It would really be great if Mr. DeVries could answer why StarMiner is not in stores after this long time, so that we don''t need to do any suppositions anymore.

Dear Readers,

1. Sorry, I must admit that our 150.000 pre-orders seem like a "right now" sort of deal but the bulk of this stuff is scheduled for a huge racking programme commencing in September/August. We simply haven''t filled the orders yet because the delivery date is being pushed forward and forward by the company ordering from us.

I can understand it seems misleading to some if we put it in a company presentation, so I will make sure this info will not feature in future versions of said document.

2. The on-line order mechanism is linked to eGames for Star Miner, Oxide and Dweebs because we licensed some 50% versions of these games to them for bundle packs. Need I explain further or do you understand why they also required to sell the full version on-line as an upgrade? I''m sick and tired of having to defend this lousy 3 game deal we did with eGames even before we were taken over!!!

3. I totally agree, but we''re not able to do anything about it until the domain is transferred to our new ISP. A company that will also design a new site for us. Old news again...!

Finally: We''re not going to go over this AGAIN please??? PLEASE??? Pretty please??? If you don''t like us/do not trust us then don''t do business with us. This goes for the other companies you slag off also. I know eGames and the others are basically competitors of ours and they pay merely parking money in royalties but in the end it''s YOUR choice. Don''t you people have anything better to do then moan and complain all daylong? Do something constructive... Write a game!

Take care,

Alex

Thx a lot for your fast answer Mr.DeVries. I knew that there must have been a good reason for all the questions I asked. I apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused to you, but (for my part) these questions were still open after the last discussion on this board.
Again I am very glad that you are on this board to answer our questions.

Dear Jester,

Your first point was indeed an unanswered question on my behalf. I am glad I could explain it to you and the other readers on this message board.

Sincerely,

Alex

You really deserve a great deal of thanks from us, Alex. You''re the only publisher with enough courage to come on a board and be repeatedly questioned about your business, and continue to answer the questions.

I understand the inquiries that everyone has, but we really should give the guy a break

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." --William Blake

Yes, I think you''re right. But please understand that I''m the CEO of the european Division of Crystal Interactive LLC. We focus on development and leave the management of the sales reps to my American counterpart. I guess it''s as simple as this: nobody in development at Infogrames, eGames or any other publisher think this board is important. Otherwise they would have participated. I know the ex-head of development at eGames used to stop by regularly. But that''s it really...

Thanks for the compliment though Nazrix.

Take care,

Alex