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Maybe he should consider locking things in a closet that one he has the key to?

One of the yelp reviews is now gone. Strange.

Yes, hilariously it's the one about "These guys suck at Kickstarter" and not the one that says "Kevin is a deadbeat who doesn't pay his bills" that got removed.

From Facebook:

"So Kevin Siembieda did provide a brief update on Robotech RPG Tactics at the Open House. Some good news about plans to release more products. They hope to do some work with GHQ."

"They hope to have Wave 2 done by the end of this year, but take note Palladium never seems to meet the release dates they propose. So take it to mean there is no way there will be Wave 2 product before December."

"Palladium was clearly thinking of the Backers with there comments at the open house. They expressed a desire to release info to the backers first. They took other efforts to not undermine backers."

" It sounds like they hope to get GHQ to make metal minis for Robotech vehicles not included in the Kickstarter. They plan to offer them to Backers on Backerkit."

"Nothing new in terms of models. They had the Mac II, the zentradi fighter prototypes in a display case, but I do not think those are new."

So despite being surrounded by Fan Friends it sounds like they chose not to share any particularly big scoops with the crowd.

... or they have nothing to show for the last year of effort.

Also, this was linked from months past by another backer, thought I'd share it around a bit:

Ninja Division, January 2015

"Wave 2 the product is currently in tooling. Ninja John was over in China a while ago to check it out as well."

"We were over in China a while ago to make sure everything was lined up and good to go. Wave 2 is in the tooling process. :-)"

"(This is John), as the creative director and manager of this project with Palladium, Wave 2 product has been approved and received in China for months now. I am not privy to the tooling process at this exact moment, as Palladium is managing their end process for the 2nd wave - but all content has been delivered and reviewed and accepted for mold making for a while now. Now, what we can do, is try and prod our pals at Palladium and get a status update for the community for you all. Wave 1 has only recently been pushed out to backers and retailers, so I am sure more product is soon to follow. Thank you for your time reaching out to us, we are happy to answer any questions to the best of our ability."

"Sorry guys, I cant comment as to anything there - but I know some great looking models have been delivered (OMG wait till you see the armored Valks) - and its churning and burning as we speak. I have not seen physical copies or mold masters yet, I will ask. (-Ninja John)"


Individual commentary stripped out, hopefully that doesn't remove much context but it's not a terribly long comment chain if you want to check out the original link.

If "China" has had the W2 stuff for "months" as of January, that's... 6-7+ months?

And PB has 5 sprue breakdown renders to show for it.

Now yes, this becomes a he-said/she-said situation, but I continue to feel that ND has retained benefit of the doubt where PB has not.

 Forar wrote:
From Facebook:

"So Kevin Siembieda did provide a brief update on Robotech RPG Tactics at the Open House. Some good news about plans to release more products. They hope to do some work with GHQ."

"They hope to have Wave 2 done by the end of this year, but take note Palladium never seems to meet the release dates they propose. So take it to mean there is no way there will be Wave 2 product before December."

"Palladium was clearly thinking of the Backers with there comments at the open house. They expressed a desire to release info to the backers first. They took other efforts to not undermine backers."

I'm glad they think so highly of us that they decided to continue their policy of leaving us completely out of the loop at their marque event. Remember, they just want to tell us so much that it hurts... remember itt hurts them so much more than it hurts us to ignore us completely out of respect for us.

"It sounds like they hope to get GHQ to make metal minis for Robotech vehicles not included in the Kickstarter. They plan to offer them to Backers on Backerkit."

'Sounds like' and 'hope'. Cue Mike's sad trombone.

"Sorry guys, I cant comment as to anything there - but I know some great looking models have been delivered (OMG wait till you see the armored Valks) - and its churning and burning as we speak. I have not seen physical copies or mold masters yet, I will ask. (-Ninja John)"

Further signs pointing to them not having the money to do the actual production?

Hopefully someone at GHQ has some sense, and notices that this game is dead, dead, dead, and doesn't waste the time making molds and masters for stuff a tiny fraction of the customer base might even consider. Most people are just hoping they get their crap at some point now, and kiss off Palladium ASAP.

Poppycock! We have been assured, by The Simbieda Himself, that everyone he meets says great things about it and loves it so so much.

 totalfailure wrote:
Hopefully someone at GHQ has some sense, and notices that this game is dead, dead, dead, and doesn't waste the time making molds and masters for stuff a tiny fraction of the customer base might even consider. Most people are just hoping they get their crap at some point now, and kiss off Palladium ASAP.

Well I am glad I am not the only one who cornered the market on negativity.
I have too much RRT stuff to ignore, gotta go whole hog, GHQ puts out some sci-fi vehicles: I am going to be all over that.
I really cannot argue your point, I just want my stuff and to "kiss off Palladium ASAP" is a fine plan.

I was already looking at a heavy lifter at shapeways.

I just cut out all the spare bits out of the sprues for the bits box: OMG that was a big pile of plastic.
I foresee making some UEDF missile turrets and Zent. gun turrets out of all the spare bits.
What is scary is I have more models unassembled than built... I will have a drinking habit before all this is over.
Thank goodness for X-wing or I would suffer from build burn-out.

So Kevin plans on becoming "big brother"?
Or should I say more so?
I wonder what his various employees have access to so he can be "ripped off"?
Is it the fine quality of people he chooses to surround himself with or paranoia?
A camera over every desk and every bathroom I am sure: fun times.

Well, at least things are never dull with this silly group.
Except of course... Wave... 2.... info.

 totalfailure wrote:
Hopefully someone at GHQ has some sense, and notices that this game is dead, dead, dead, and doesn't waste the time making molds and masters for stuff a tiny fraction of the customer base might even consider. Most people are just hoping they get their crap at some point now, and kiss off Palladium ASAP.

GHQ has been asking for months for customers who buy their models to use for Robotech to let them know so that they are able to measure interest. Obviously, they are selling enough models in connection with Robotech to believe that they can make more money from it.

Oh great. Now one of the fan friends went and told Wayne on me for posting a link to the yelp review. Here's the message I got from him.

""Posting Kevin's personal cell number online? Really? Not cool, guy.""

So now I'm getting blamed for it.LoL How about instead of chasing after phantoms, why not update your backers on wave two.

Did he explain how random Canadian backer #XXX magically got that cell phone number? Or was it just the general palladium shop number? DId he respond via KS pm or forums pm?

Strange that it double posted.

So the private cell phone # of Kevin leaked out to the web? (!!)
I don't think I would know where to begin if I called it.
Actually, I really cannot imagine anything constructive coming out of that phone call for either party.

Cypher: remember that PB runs on the "shoot the messenger" principle.
Hence why we do not get updates.
Why should they treat you any different?

Ah! Now my original post is gone. Well I let Wayne know I only posted the number thinking it was for PB. I even said sorry. So I asked when we can expect a new update. So far nothing.

It's obvious that Kevin can't do anything to the people who posted on yelp. So now I'm being punished by not letting me log on to kickstarter.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
I just noticed my posts in the update section have been deleted. Funny I've seen others post the same links, but I guess with my to honest post on Kevin's FB updates and such I guess they need someone to blame to take away from their rrt problems.

 Cypher-xv wrote:
Ah! Now my original post is gone. Well I let Wayne know I only posted the number thinking it was for PB. I even said sorry. So I asked when we can expect a new update. So far nothing.

It's obvious that Kevin can't do anything to the people who posted on yelp. So now I'm being punished by not letting me log on to kickstarter.

I don't think even the all powerful wizard of palladium can stop you from logging into KS. In any case, it's his own damn fault that the number got out from a quick investigation. I'm guessing it's the one in the removed yelp review. So... to theorize/recap... he suspects that an employee is stealing from him so hires so guy to do some sort of security work for him on the sly at palladium and therefore does NOT give the general palladium phone number but instead his private phone number... and then proceeds to treat the guy with the same courtesy and respect that he reserves for KS backers and rpg customers and the guy posts likely his only contact info as part of the review... and now he blames Canada for it. LOL... only at palladium. When will palladium learn that karma is not on their side and stop trying to screw over folks. His inner circle keeps stealing from him despite being such fanfriends who agree with everything he does and life just keeps smacking him in the jimmy every time he tries to pull a fast one over on an innocent party.

My mistake, I can log in I just can't make any posts.

Make sure it's still listed as one of your funded projects.

It still shows as funded

Ok, good. It isn't retaliation then and you're just banned from posting for who knows how long. Over in the gears and whatever thread where they made the game boards, someone had their pledge refunded after over a year and a half delay just weeks before the supposed delivery date (that turned out to be false several times/months in a row) without his prompting because he complained too much. Ironically, it was the dakkite (in)famous for threatening to drop his pledge on KS.

You may not have been doing it, but there's definitely been some posts mixed in Mike's page, the KS comments and elsewhere that came across to me as very clearly knowing that they weren't giving out the work contact info, in the same way that some 'helpful souls' have been answering people looking for contact info with the "tipster" email address rather than the "kickstarter@pb" one.

Again, not saying you were, more that you may have been swept up in with people who were using only the thinnest veneer of 'helping'.

It is what it is. No point in crying over spilled milk. As long as wave two gets delivered to me I don't care.

It is unfortunate to see a knee-jerk reaction rather than trying to hunt down the root of the problem.

Cypher: unfortunately you are not a "fan-friend" so your number was about to come up eventually.
Sorry it happened though.

No good deed goes unpunished?

What was in the pruned posts?

Is "fan-friend" an actual term PB actually uses, or an inside joke?

Talizvar
True enough.LoL

Warboss
Only the yelp review posts. You can see it on the previous page on this thread.

Alpha
Kevin calls them fan friends. It was in one of his murmurs or something.

 Alpharius wrote:
Is "fan-friend" an actual term PB actually uses, or an inside joke?

There have been some mention in their magazine "The Rifter" where they will give thanks to "fan/friends" (found in #37) as well in weekly updates they say "friends, fans".
They seem to like to combine fans and friends in their missives but do not use the term the way you see in this forum.

I found this google search helped a bit: "Palladium books "fan friend"".
I really cannot place the origin but when used with a space or a hyphen it typically seems to be used in a negative way... it appears interchangeable in regard to "White Knight" at least in regards to PB.
Oddly, most of the hits are found in Dakka.

 n815e wrote:

 totalfailure wrote:
Hopefully someone at GHQ has some sense, and notices that this game is dead, dead, dead, and doesn't waste the time making molds and masters for stuff a tiny fraction of the customer base might even consider. Most people are just hoping they get their crap at some point now, and kiss off Palladium ASAP.

GHQ has been asking for months for customers who buy their models to use for Robotech to let them know so that they are able to measure interest. Obviously, they are selling enough models in connection with Robotech to believe that they can make more money from it.

I'm sure it will be a big winner for them Meanwhile, isn't it time for another session with your man-god Kevin? Ruler of the known universe, purveyor of RPGs that were outdated 30 years ago?

 Talizvar wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Is "fan-friend" an actual term PB actually uses, or an inside joke?

There have been some mention in their magazine "The Rifter" where they will give thanks to "fan/friends" (found in #37) as well in weekly updates they say "friends, fans".
They seem to like to combine fans and friends in their missives but do not use the term the way you see in this forum.

I found this google search helped a bit: "Palladium books "fan friend"".
I really cannot place the origin but when used with a space or a hyphen it typically seems to be used in a negative way... it appears interchangeable in regard to "White Knight" at least in regards to PB.
Oddly, most of the hits are found in Dakka.

There was another one of Kevin's ridiculous rambling loads of crap updates that mentioned he had had some "fan friends" or, possibly, "fan-friends" over for dinner. It was his term. I thought the term was very much a contemptuous term and said so. Then more than one chucklehead felt the need to tune in with "I TAKE IT AS A COMPLIMENT, YOU HATER OF ALL THINGS HOLY!!1!!!".

So, it's a denigrating (contemptuous? dismissive?) term handed down from The Simbieda Himself. And it's embraced by his followers.

So the rumor is they might change the scale for the next two eras according to FB.

https://www.facebook.com/RRPGT?fref=nf