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Post by thegenii on May 14, 2018 18:10:08 GMT -5
The MPC just added a new page to its website. It consists of accolades from customers. But they are all from customers of the products the company used to produce. Not the podcast nonsense that's coming up. Read it and chuckle (or weep--it's your choice). mysteriouspackage.com/pages/member-stories
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Post by dmikester on May 16, 2018 15:06:05 GMT -5
The MPC just added a new page to its website. It consists of accolades from customers. But they are all from customers of the products the company used to produce. Not the podcast nonsense that's coming up. Read it and chuckle (or weep--it's your choice). mysteriouspackage.com/pages/member-storiesThis is so funny and sad. I was wondering where my testimonial was until I realized that they’re still selling John Augur (they used a quote from an email I sent them complimenting the artifacts high quality, which was at least true at the time I sent it). I still vividly remember that one testimonials page from the last volume of C&C where they quoted “NPH” (Neil Patrick Harris, who at least at one time was a big fan) saying something about how great C&C still was. It was so clearly a fake quote written by someone at MPC (it was so specific to our complaints about C&C that it had to be from someone internal) that I couldn’t believe it at first.
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Post by thegenii on May 16, 2018 15:31:44 GMT -5
I know NPH--they wouldn't be using any fake quotes from him.
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Post by Todd on May 16, 2018 15:38:27 GMT -5
I took that to be a fake inference. While many would assume the NPH stands for Neil Patrick Harris, it could also stand for Nicole Pollyanna Hatfield. Or Nelson Percival Hengest.
I think in this case NPH stands for "Notorious Package Hawker".
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Post by thegenii on May 16, 2018 18:31:32 GMT -5
I took that to be a fake inference. While many would assume the NPH stands for Neil Patrick Harris, it could also stand for Nicole Pollyanna Hatfield. Or Nelson Percival Hengest. I think in this case NPH stands for "Notorious Package Hawker".
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Post by Todd on May 17, 2018 9:17:27 GMT -5
It's very disingenuous, IMO, how they went out of their way to try to convince us that everybody loved the new format of Curios & Conundrums better. Especially when one considers that they cancelled it after four issues in the new format.
They no doubt hope they will craft something with a broad appeal when they introduce their Global Detective Agency box. Unfortunately, murder mystery boxes and escape room boxes are a very competitive field. They had something with the first three volumes of Curios & Conundrums that nobody else was doing.
I hope the find a way to craft something unique, and not just end up making a "me too" box. Time will tell.
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Post by thegenii on May 17, 2018 10:25:20 GMT -5
They're late to the game. The only advantage they have is their existing customer base ... if they produce a product that base wants.
I have some of the original Dennis Wheatley murder mystery portfolios and they're quite interesting.
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Post by dmikester on May 17, 2018 11:06:51 GMT -5
This is why GDA is so crazy to me. Of all the things they could decide to do next, they enter an over-saturated market and create a product that at least on the surface seems to be more or less copying the themes of several existing products? At least the D&D podcast experience is different and unlike anything that I've seen out there.
Genii, is there a chance you could ask NPH about that quote? I guess it's possible that it was actually from him, but it seems so suspicious.
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Post by craigrj on May 17, 2018 12:33:21 GMT -5
They're late to the game. The only advantage they have is their existing customer base ... if they produce a product that base wants. I have some of the original Dennis Wheatley murder mystery portfolios and they're quite interesting. Did you get the reprints from the 70s with the photos of the objects or one of the earlier ones with the objects themselves? I have the four from I think the second run, so these have the objects in, and yeah they are pretty interesting. However I really like the three Sherlock Holmes versions too and have the Patrick Q File on Rufus Ray although haven't yet found Fenton & Farr cheap enough to splurge on. It would appear that the simplest way to get authentically aged pages from the 1930s would be to...buy a copy of a 1930s version of the book!
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Post by thegenii on May 17, 2018 13:18:30 GMT -5
I have a few of the originals.
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Post by thegenii on May 17, 2018 13:20:34 GMT -5
This is why GDA is so crazy to me. Of all the things they could decide to do next, they enter an over-saturated market and create a product that at least on the surface seems to be more or less copying the themes of several existing products? At least the D&D podcast experience is different and unlike anything that I've seen out there. Genii, is there a chance you could ask NPH about that quote? I guess it's possible that it was actually from him, but it seems so suspicious. Can you send me a scan of the "NPH" quote? My email addy is moobooks@verizon.net
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Post by professor on May 19, 2018 3:27:33 GMT -5
I see that my testimonial is not there, but that's no surprise. It was the one they were using for The King in Yellow, which is no longer available.
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Post by Weather ... BUT IN SPACE! on May 21, 2018 20:31:41 GMT -5
I'm disappointed they disabled comments for the Youtube testimonials. I was coming up with some zingers.
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