We went into the Fire Sale with one main and three subsidiary goals. Our main goal of ensuring that Total War is released and delivered to everyone who ordered it is on-track given the generous support shown by the Europa Community\u2019s participation in the sale. Of the three subsidiary goals, the first, to raise the money needed to complete the printing of the game has mostly been met (more on this below). The second, to raise enough money to ship the game once it is printed is being accumulated and looks likely to be fully in place about the time the printing is completed or shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n
The third minor goal, to get 300 people to agree to take a $10 credit in return for their copy of the game shipping in a plain white box (roomier and sturdier than the original) has been less successful: 71 people have agreed to this. We needed this because only 1200 (out of 2500) game boxes were recovered from our fire-damaged warehouse, and 1500 boxes are needed to cover all the pre-publication orders for the game + the minimum of 500 copies for sales to stores to repay our secured investors.<\/p>\n
Given that we have not met the 300 plain white box goal, our investors have required that additional boxes be printed to cover their 500 game minimum before funds are spent for other purposes. This may delay printing of some of the other components. However, we will be meeting with the local printer shortly to see if we can work around this by printing some of the non-box materials now, and some a little later.<\/p>\n
Due to the extra costs for printing that we now face (for the boxes and because piecing work out some now and some later costs more than when everything goes in all at once), we have decided to extend and expand the fire sale. In addition to the website and email promotion done so far, this includes a direct mailing to a much larger wargamer audience that will go out in stages over the remainder of this week. We have also tweaked the fire sale a bit and lowered the prices on a few items \u2013 for the current details click on the \u201cHMSFireSale5\u201d link directly below this announcement.<\/p>\n
For the current and final version of the Fire Sale see the HMSFireSaleFinal\u00a0link under the HMS News – July 18, 20<\/p>\n
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