If you're only subscribing to EN World for ZEITGEIST, I'd like to suggest that's not the optimum solution for you. Buy them individually. The site subscriptions are not sold as AP subscriptions; the APs are bonuses. They're designed for site features, search, custom avatars, community support, and the like.
Gold and silver subscribers get everything you listed for the copper subscription. If the additional money at silver and gold aren't
for creating the APs, then how do you fund them (prior to Kickstarter)?
I apologise sincerely if you feel misled by that, gideonpepys. Clearly a miscommunication on my part. I'm am very sorry (man, I seem to say that a lot to you over the last couple of years) and accept that it is completely my fault. But we need to end this situation where you repeatedly feel cheated and disappointed over and over and over, whether it be an AP or a Kickstarter reward which I end up letting you jump the queue for. Please drop me an email and I'll refund you and cancel your subscription. I never wanted anybody to think that the ENW subscription was just about this adventure path or feel cheated by it, and I personally don't want to feel this crushing sense of obligation to you.
At no point did I make this a personal issue. All of my above points were aimed and the proposed Kickstarter. I think that your
ad hominem remarks are unnecessary, but allow me to address one of them:
Honestly, I think that's the best solution for you. You're one of our biggest fans, and I'm sincerely grateful for that, but everything we do disappoints you -- and that upsets you and it upsets me. Both of us is unhappy, so why continue it? From threads here to PMs you send me, you clearly don't feel you're getting what you paid for. I would rather you not feel that way. Let's find a situation where neither of us is upset.
Yes, I paid for gold subscription and didn't get it for four months, so had no access to
anything. You told me in private messages before I paid that it would take you
a week but insisted on fulfilling my reward with the 'Immortal' group, whose deadline was clearly and obviously less urgent. I could not download pdfs I needed, or gain any of the benefits of membership which was very difficult for me indeed. I'm a DM and couldn't download the material I needed. I waited very patiently and only began to message you when the gold subscriptions were all fulfilled after three months.
You say I 'clearly don't feel' I was getting what I paid for but at the point when I complained I wasn't. It wasn't a 'feeling'. I have never been unreasonable.
When you say 'everything we do disappoints you' this all starts to sound dreadfully passive-aggressive. Nothing you
do disappoints me. I think
War
of the Burning Sky and
Zeitgeist are hugely entertaining and innovative adventure paths, and as you mentioned, I am one of your biggest fans.
So let's cancel that sub, I'll refund you, and you can buy any of our products you want to as and when we release them. Then we're all happy, no? You even end up with a bunch of high quality adventures for free!
The sub was never the issue. Not being able to run a campaign, that's the issue. But having no real hope that matters will improve, I reluctantly accept your offer.
I remain an ardent fan of
Zeitgeist and will continue to try to run it, but in return for your demonstration of good faith, I will say no more whatever on the issue of delays or about the Kickstarter.
