I checked the website and according to it, it shows Descent 2nd Edition as being 'At The Printer'.. how long has it been there for?

Since 7 August 2011.

Columbob said:

That is not my experience with FFG, though I can think of a few outlying examples.

Descent 2nd Edition 'At The Printer'.

oh my, that means 3-4 months at least...

Kartigan said:

I'm not quite sure I understand why some people think the idea of high quality control and good expectation management are mutually exclusive. Surely FFG can do both. I agree that quality control is important  and though the delays may be due to improving quality control (and that's just a guess) FFG could also be compensating with expectation management with little to no effort. Its the fact that FFG doesn't think it worthwhile to spend this little effort that is getting people's goat.

Skywalker said:

Lovely! :)

Skywalker said:

How long have you been following FFG for?

It used to be they'd announce a slew of releases for the current year at the GAMA trade show in March, and easily half of those would start hitting shelves only in the next year.

Now of course they only do GenCon and showcase the upcoming releases for the fall, which is a much easier target to hit as they already have a bunch of advance copies for sale at the con. Except for the stuff supposed to hit the shelves in the next year, i.a. Descent v2.

Would all of you really be that much happier if they'd just say "Sorry, you'll just have to wait some more." In that case, just assume they did say it. Maybe then you'll rest easier.

Columbob said:

Since they released Dragonstar in 2001. I have been a pretty prolific customer of FFG over all its product types over the last 11 years.

And yes, I would be much happier with an explanation for the delay (is it quality management?) and noting what they expect the effect of that delay to be. Given we don't know what the explanation is, I can't see how assuming it is said helps at all.

Are people really annoyed with FFG for not drip-feeding us with information on this game?  Or is it simply that we so desparately WANT more info on this game, that we constantly go on about it?  The latter is easily forgivable, but seriously, if you fall into the formers camp, you need to relax.  Just think of the amount of video games that are announced months and months (often years) before they hit the shelves, often with NO new information until just before they come out.

While I'd love to get more information, and have pretty much read and digested EVERYTHING I can find on it to date,  I'm certainly not about to march on FFG with torch and pitchfork in hand...

Columbob said:

I would love to know because I am also interested in other games. And if this one takes like another 3 months, I would first buy something else and then look back at this one.

Because this game is already going to be like 70 euro's, which is quiet a bit of money. I am not saying the game is expensive, just saying its alot of money. So I don't want to buy multiple games that fast after each other.

The picture is come from Hong-Kong website, Wargamers club online, and they will release Chinese version of Descent.

It looks like they play one game, and someone left comment on their forum.

I try to best I can to translate it into English.

The Quest is well balance, and Heroes and Overlord have same wining ratio. Game paly is much faster ( little down time?)

New plot system is very good, it puts more stories into quest, and win or lose between encounters and chapters will impact your adventure.

Overlord's action not just an DM, and his/her choice has much more important, therefore, Overlord feel like you

Introduction part is qutie nice, players don't need to read a lot of rules(but winning the quest still need read more rules)

Overall, Descent 2nd include all structure from previous edition's expansion. It keeps all the good part, and put into one box. Now you can say, if you don't have time to run D&D, Descent 2nd is another choice. Expecting full version show up.

kerl,

Thanks for taking the time to translate and post this.

kerl said:

Missing some part of translation.

Overlord's action not just an DM, and his/her choice has much more important, therefore, Overlord feel like you play the game, not just run the game

(I guess OL has more control or something?)

 I think its less controll.

I think they are using the same system as in manion of maddness with selecting a story and then the consequences

Great Find Kerl! Thanks!

But please can You send me , via PV , or publish here a direct link to the orginal messege?

I would like to see this photo in orginal image size.

Becouse I would love to see more details.

Thanks!

Cheers