A while back, at the end of December, I made a post about how the website for the new company that I work for, Firehawk Games was live, and before that I made several posts mentioning Novus, the new game that I began working on once Mjolnir had to let me go (after they lost the ICE license in early November 2010).

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This morning, I got fed up with the way that the folks now running ICE refuse to answer questions about when the products will be available, so I basically called them on it, and got the standard avoidance answer about how they have to rebrand everything.

Problem is, I know a thing or two about what is involved in pagemaking a PDF, both for creating salable PDFs and for creating print-ready PDFs (for professional printers). The resulting PDFs are very different from one another. And so, I posted the following:

products that need to be rebranded, and in the case of those specific items they are far down the list.

Exactly what is involved in “rebranding”?

Changing the copyright statement, for sure. Adding the GCP logo to the books, yes? Anything else?

Those sorts of changes take, at most, 10-30 minutes per product, with maybe another 30 minutes to distill a salable PDF.

So what all else is being done to these products that it takes an unknown amount of time to accomplish?

And so what was the response? The post was removed and reported to the big boss who owns the Rolemaster IP.

The things is that they could have easily had the salable PDFs rebranded and up for sale first thing. And then updated those PDFs when they finished making the printer versions if there were any interior changes.

In my opinion, this is all about ego. They don’t want to release anything until everything is ready, and in the meantime, the customers suffer…