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**miniholic**

alanmckenzie wrote:
It's a six month old picture, but it's something.

Alan, your cynism is way too nonchalant.

**BrookM**

Sorry, I can't remember gak with this one, plus whenever they put something up that I haven't seen in a while I automatically assume that they've done something!

**Jimsolo**

Am I the only one getting a Saturday Night Fever vibe from some of those Jet girls?

**migooo**

Jimsolo wrote:
Am I the only one getting a Saturday Night Fever vibe from some of those Jet girls?

And previously didn't they have wings more like Drusilla??

**BrookM**

Got a bit of time on this Sunday afternoon? Scroll down on our Tumblr to find a lot of references and inspirations shared by our artistic director Benoït Guerville http://ragingheroes.tumblr.com/

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Also..

Coincidence, I think not!

**KalashnikovMarine**

Who wears short shorts? Malinka wears short shorts!

**Mathieu Raymond**

*yawn*

Not content with recylcing art from the KS campaign, they are now plundering the depths of their own catalog. Even Lapin-Blanc, on the KS comments, has begun to waver in a shamefully negative sort of way, and he was a very level-headed guy.

**KalashnikovMarine**

That's because you're all twitter weened malcontents who demand instant gratification.

**BrookM**

I'd settle for straight answers, but then again I always was a malcontent and anti-citizen one material.

**Buzzsaw**

So, I was pondering the impact that their "dedicated social media hire" would have on their updates and checked the dates.

In about 30 hours, they will have gone the entire month of March without a comment (last comment was February 24),

The last Update (Update 84) was March 10th.

At this point, I was honestly wondering if I had hallucinated the idea that there was a guy hired for communications. Nope, wasn't my imagination;

Loud'n Raging wrote:In fact, we had planned to touch base with you yesterday and give you some news of what's going on right now at Raging Heroes. But we got caught into the preparation of the Webinars (the first 2 sessions were moved from last week-end to this one because of Internet issues), and so the Update got side-tracked. However, we have a big Update planned for next week with new sculpts so once again, a lot of new images.
As you know, we also have a new member in the team who works exclusively on communications, but he's still getting his feet wet as there is so much information to absorb and so much stuff to set up. On top of that, so early in the game, we all prefer to make sure that his communications are Ok'd by the team, and as mentioned before, the team is pretty busy. But this is already evolving.
He will soon be posting tidbits and snapshots of what's happening here every day.

What it was, was November.

Presumably we should send flowers, because the most obvious explanation is that this guy is dead.

**Jimsolo**

Buzzsaw wrote:
So, I was pondering the impact that their "dedicated social media hire" would have on their updates and checked the dates.

In about 30 hours, they will have gone the entire month of March without a comment (last comment was February 24),

The last Update (Update 84) was March 10th.

At this point, I was honestly wondering if I had hallucinated the idea that there was a guy hired for communications. Nope, wasn't my imagination;

Loud'n Raging wrote:In fact, we had planned to touch base with you yesterday and give you some news of what's going on right now at Raging Heroes. But we got caught into the preparation of the Webinars (the first 2 sessions were moved from last week-end to this one because of Internet issues), and so the Update got side-tracked. However, we have a big Update planned for next week with new sculpts so once again, a lot of new images.
As you know, we also have a new member in the team who works exclusively on communications, but he's still getting his feet wet as there is so much information to absorb and so much stuff to set up. On top of that, so early in the game, we all prefer to make sure that his communications are Ok'd by the team, and as mentioned before, the team is pretty busy. But this is already evolving.
He will soon be posting tidbits and snapshots of what's happening here every day.

What it was, was November.

Presumably we should send flowers, because the most obvious explanation is that this guy is dead.

I actually lol'ed.

**Wehrkind**

Wow, I hadn't even thought of that. That... that's pretty amazing. I mean, they have to have fired him and just didn't tell anyone, right? Or he really did die. The only other answer would seem to be that he is sitting at home getting high and watching Adventure Time while sending periodic emails into work to update his boss about how well the communication is going.

**Jimsolo**

Wehrkind wrote:
Wow, I hadn't even thought of that. That... that's pretty amazing. I mean, they have to have fired him and just didn't tell anyone, right? Or he really did die. The only other answer would seem to be that he is sitting at home getting high and watching Adventure Time while sending periodic emails into work to update his boss about how well the communication is going.

Those thoughts occurred to me, as well as the possibility that "the brass" requires final approval over all his communications, and has been keeping a tight muzzle on him. In the face of that opposition, he may or may not have become disillusioned and either stopped trying or quit.

**BrookM**

"What is zis? Actual helpful and informative morsels of information? Zis is, how ve say, tres unacceptable! Guillotine for you!"

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

The comms guy (or gal?) is kept busy posting stuff on facebook/redit/tumblr/pinterest etc

the KS updates are sacred ground that only the great artists can touch, and they are busy creating (or something)

**Alpharius**

He might have died, and then they fired him?

**BrookM**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
The comms guy (or gal?) is kept busy posting stuff on facebook/redit/tumblr/pinterest etc

the KS updates are sacred ground that only the great artists can touch, and they are busy creating (or something)

Not sure if that qualifies as being kept busy though.. It's not exactly "new" news that's being shared so sporadically, but rather reminders of what has already been shared some time ago.

**Mathieu Raymond**

Well, it seems that the commenters on the KS are losing faith, it seems. Maybe that is too strong a word. Just getting fed up, a bit, maybe?

**Alpharius**

Someone hail the Master of Comms!

**BrookM**

The KS comments are slowly turning sour? Now that truly is..

No wait, that's a tasteless thing of me to say. Though I do hope that it is a turning point in the long wait for deliverance.

**Mathieu Raymond**

Maybe if the raging fanbois turn on them and increase the pressure, they might send us Wave 1 before the kickstarter hits 1 year old.

**Wehrkind**

Alpharius wrote:
He might have died, and then they fired him?

Probably only after they noticed the cobwebs forming over his corpse in his tiny, forgotten cubicle.

Thing happens in corporate here and again. Guy dies at his desk, no one notices till the next Monday or something. Or till he starts to smell, though from what I have been told of the French.... and gamers....

I kid, I kid

**BrookM**

Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Maybe if the raging fanbois turn on them and increase the pressure, they might send us Wave 1 before the kickstarter hits 1 year old.

That would be..

**Jimsolo**

Well, I held out hope right up to the very end that I would wake up this morning to find that they had sent out the official pledge manager order form while I slumbered. But alas...

**-iPaint-**

Dwarven Forge is keeping my Kickstartr (great April Fool's!) needs sated for the time being.

~iPaint

**Mathieu Raymond**

I think we shouldn't expect an update before the end of next week.

Their last update mentionned 2 1/2 weeks to get the spincast resin and 2 more weeks to get the metal casts in. I'm really wondering though how they were able to project casting needs without having a pledge manager up. I'm guessing they can always push all of the extra heroines to market, but what if they haven't cast enough, say?

Anyway, yeah, it would be useless to give us another update until they have their stock, especially since they'd be saying "oh look, more stuff you won't get for another 6 months."

**BrookM**

Or, you know, showing off design sketches and telling us that we didn't pledge enough, so these won't happen, because we didn't give enough.

**alanmckenzie**

Is there any chance of them running out of money before they have fulfilled the ks pledges and before they've been able to cast a sizeable stock for general release?

They've employed a few new people, we have to assume they're all still alive and getting paid. While $700000 is quite a sum, it can't last forever. And really, I suppose that money requires paying back by way of pledge fulfillment.

Just putting the thought out there.

**BrookM**

Well, they did artificially inflate several ~~pledge levels~~ stretch goals because we were going through them so fast, so I'm sure they got money aplenty.

Kinda hoping, that if they keep postponing gak because of more models being crammed into the first wave, that Wolfenstein will also be a part of the first one.

edit.

Meant stretch goals, not pledge levels, derp.

**Mathieu Raymond**

Well, good news. For me, at least. My co-pledger decided to increase his pledge, and thus buy me out of this kickstarter. I'll still get a few heroines, but that's it.