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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Armistice" data-source="post: 3988754" data-attributes="member: 34673">I can't fault Crafty from learning from past mistakes. I own all the Shadowforce Archer books and think they were good products, but, they didn't sell well or not well enough anyway. The Crafty guys took the lessons they learned while at AEG to heart and are trying not to repeat what they feel was an error. AscentStudios, a member of the Crafty design team addressed your particular issue on another forum. I'm just cross-posting so that you can at least see what the thought process for their decision was. AscentStudios on another forum wrote:I'm sorry to hear that you feel WoF was short information you wanted. The move to use PDFs was not a cynical money grab. The reason heroic faction information was held back was twofold - one, because the book was going to be 400 pages if we included it all (delaying the book even longer), and two, because the "heroic" factions aren't necessarily the protagonists - something that drew flak from fans in the past.One lesson we learned from Shadowforce Archer was that about half the fanbase resented the setting's preconceived notion of white hats and black hats, to the point where they wouldn't touch SFA stuff and stick with plain Spycraft. That effectively split the first editions audience down the middle. With that in mind, we chose to make WoF more of a "pure" espionage genre toolkit, albeit with the story and basic framework of the CCG setting. Leaving the option for GMs to decide who was good, bad, enemy or ally, or if they even existed in their World on Fire campaigns, freed groups to decide whether they wanted to join one of the heroic factions, fight them, or become the only good guys standing up to the bad.As for follow up issues - we are fully aware, and WoF is NOT being abandoned. We released this book knowing the faction PDFs were absolutes and the project is already well underway. They are the project Patrick is working on right now, ahead of everything else. Because of the issues in the past of premature announcements, however, we are only going to say when they're ready when we can be absolutely certain of the release date. No more dashed hopes - just products, on time - that's the 2008 goal.</blockquote>

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