Videogames, and certain tabletop games are on the pricier side as entertainment commodities go. Some people can’t afford to spend, say, $40 on a game. Ever. Some people can do so only rarely, after a lot of word of mouth wins them over. A fair number of those people who can afford to buy anything that strikes their fancy only have that luxury thanks to their ability to get half their money back on eBay when they don’t like what they have. This gets games out of the closets of people who aren’t playing them into the hands of people who otherwise couldn’t afford them, generating more word of mouth to win over people on the fence. Everyone wins here.

So here’s our official stance on the matter. If you can afford The Massive Vs. The Masses? Buy a copy. Play it a few times. In the unlikely event you don’t love it, and don’t want to play it again? Hop on eBay, or BoardGameGeek, and sell it to someone else. Please do so. I don’t want a single copy of my game in the hands of someone who isn’t enjoying it, and as long as someone paid for it when it first shipped out of here, anything that helps that happen is great in my book.

In other news, we’ve been busy with a couple of interesting new projects which may be ready to see the light of day by the end of next month. No promises, but there may be an interesting development in the field of playing tabletop games via the internet, and something more conventional in the field of free web-based games.

Glistening Chests: The Sack of the Northern Pole

Fair warning, like all Glistening Chests products, it is full of double-entendres and embarrassing displays of Sword and Sorcery schlock. Read it at your own risk. Of course, if you appreciate this sort of thing, the entire adventure is presented in a narrative format, and still makes an amusing read even if you’re unfamiliar with the underlying mechanics.

We have also decided to extend our special holiday sale on The Massive Vs. The Masses through January, to help give it a shot at being our most successful product for next year.

The rest of the first print run of The Massive Vs. The Masses: Gamorzilla Vs. The Army is taking up a lot of space here which we need to clear out to work on our army of atomic zombie men upcoming products. So until they’re gone or we come to our senses, you can get your copy for only $25. Not to sound like a used car salesman, but that is a completely ridiculous price. You’re basically paying for just the raw materials that go into each copy. So it would be a very good idea to grab a copy while you can by clicking the link at the bottom of this announcement, because you’re never going to get a game of this quality this cheap again.

This month’s is a bit of the history of the company, and some candid talk on various obscure and potentially embarrassing games of the distant past and future. Next month, we plan to dedicate the whole show to The Massive Vs. The Masses and the art behind it, so if there’s anything you’d like to hear about specifically, let us know.

As this generally indicates success and interest for this sort of thing, we plan to release over the coming months a number of games with similar mechanics, but highly varied themes.

Also on the subject of feedback, it has been suggested that we start up an official WDL podcast. Theoretically, everything needed to do so is at hand, so if anyone has any questions or comments they’d like to have addressed in audio form,  particularly with regards to Glistening Chests, feel free to either e-mail them, or leave comments on this post, and hopefully something should come of it.