KQIX Project Shut Down

[Reish Vedaur]

Dude... are you trying to start a fight?  True, Family Guy DVD sales were great, but either of us saying we're right over the other is pretty arrogant, since, guess what, we don't work at Fox and I doubt there's a press release citing one or the other.  One thing I'm certain of, though, is that it wasn't a letter campaign.

[Corsair5]

You know where Hate Mail and Fan Mail go? Same place. The garbage can. VU isn't gonna care any more about Hate Mail (Or whatever) than I care about Junk Mail.

[Sirus]

I'd have to agree with Corsair, at least if everyone sent in in individual letters. The letter camaigns before probably (note the 'probably' I'm just assuming this, cause it makes sense) were sent in all together. What you would need it to have a collection of letters, then it would make an impact.

Example: Everyone sends their letters to Some-Person. Once Some-Person collects say, 1000 letters, he then sends them in bulk to VU.



That makes most sense to make the most impact, but I have no backing on whether it works or not.

[Corsair5]

Problem with Sirus' idea: Do you have any idea how much it would cost to send 1000 letters? At least $300.

[koko_99_2001]

Well, we already have a petition where everyone sends their petitions to me. The letter campaign has the letters arriving separately. In other words, we're trying to cover the bases.

[Jigen]

If you sent each of them individually yeah, but how much does a thousand letters weigh? I'll bet you good money a three-kilogram box costs a lot less than three hundred bucks to post. Try comming up with a suggestion to go with your corrections Corsair, that way you're actually being useful.

[Sirus]

Problem with Sirus' idea: Do you have any idea how much it would cost to send 1000 letters? At least $300.

Exactly, which goes back to the unlikelyhood of it working. (although it wouldn't cost that much, it is time-consuming and costly)

[Jarrod]

Lets think about this realistically Cosair.  Think about it in the glass is half full for once.  I have 2 sheets of paper with text written across the entire page and a standard letter size envelope.  Pulling them on the mailing scale I have at work shows them to weigh .6 ounces.  Now .6 x 1000 would be 600 ounces.  Now since we know that 1 ounce = 0.0625 pounds we can calculate that the package will weigh roughly around 37.49999338613257 pounds.   Or if your lazy you can have the calculator here do it for you (http://www.metric-conversions.org/weight/ounces-to-pounds.htm).

Sierra is located here: (source)

Sierra Entertainment, Inc.,
14205 SE 36th Street, Suite 220,
Bellevue, WA 98006 U.S.A

Going to USPS.com and entering in my information (Southern California address) I get the following for a 38 pound package.  

Priority Mail®  2 Day(s)  $37.70
Parcel Post      5 Day(s)  $22.16

Say add on another $5-10 bucks for a box (if you dont have one) for the letters and you roughly have a total cost of sending 1000 letters to Sierra of about $50.  (minus the postage that people would ave to pay to send their letters to you)

Does not look like your pessimistic $300 dollar estimate does it?  NOw all you need to do is get 1000 letters.

Jarrod

 

[Corsair5]

Okay, point taken.

Still. Think about it. Why are they more likely to open a package filled with letters than they are to read dozens of letters arriving at different times? I wonder how many people send VU a package daily? Besides, the CEO won't look at this. None of the higher ups will. It'll be the guy sitting at the front desk, who gets paid minimum wage and who doesn't care ANYTHING about King's Quest Nine.

But go ahead, waste money and time that COULD be used to subtly change KQIX so that instead of King Graham, it's King Cracker. Make it Prince9. Kinda like Hero6. Turn it from a Fan Sequel to a perfectly legal KQClone.

[PHattiE]

Meh, no harm in trying, right?  $50 is pocket change.  If VU doesn't even bother opening the package, so what?  at least the attempt was made to save those poor kq9 developer's hard work.  "It's the thought that counts"

Though, I have a hard enough time sending in an envelope to get my $100 rebate, so don't expect a letter from me...  Still, if anyone feels like forging a letter in my behalf, go ahead.  It should read something like this:

Dear Sierra:

Please let pheonix studios finish their fan sequel.  I'd rather enjoy playing it; and the way I see it, you owe us one after that Kings Quest 8 game.

From PHattiE
hero6.com

Coresy: The "hero" in hero6 refers to the title "heroes quest" and not after the subject matter of the game.  The 6 was to mean a sequel to QFG.  The point was to make a project name that was ambiguous (we didnt know if we'd do a sequel or a prequel.  Get it: 6->sequel, hero->prequel!).    Thus, KQ9 would be renamed King9 if it wished to wisely imitate our project-naming creativity.  Also, "King Cracker" might be mis-translated by those slow witted into thinking it is a racial remark. I'd go with "King Kilo."  It has a certain punch to it, like: "Yo, don't mess with king Kilo, foo!"  Yeh.

[Corsair5]

What about...King Ritz? Or King Saltine? Also...$50 is pocket change? What? $50 is a lot of money. In America, anyway.  

[Sirus]

Can I state the fact that you shouldn't listen to Cosair's calculations

http://visitors.hero6.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=583[/URL]]

And with 25 runes, it's not gonna be dozens or hundreds of combinations. Thousands. Millions.

Precisely, 355,271,367,880,050,092,935,562,133,789,063.

Besides, whoever heard of a whole number multiplied by 5 that ended in 3?

Well, it was a cheap calculator.

[Reish Vedaur]

I've been quoted!  *beams with pride*

[Silverbolt]

$50 is pocket change.

I tried not to say anything. I really tried.

Do you have ANY clue as to what the average medium wage is around here in Romania? 150$ That's IT!

Me, as a non-working high-school student of 18, having no income of my own, I have to save up for an entire year to get ONE upgrade on my PC. Don't you tell me that 50$ is pocket change.

[Corsair5]

Sirus, That was an error not of my own. I thought you could use anywhere from one to 25 Runes. I was..mislead. Besides, the calculator messed up. Too many numbers.