Check this out! - The KQ Compilations Thread

[Yonkey]

Interesting... Do you mind posting the link to the place where the person said that? 

[dark-daventry]

http://sierraplanet.virtualave.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=2&topic=75

There you go! It was made in september, but still. It's still fairly interesting to me.

[Yonkey]

It doesn't really look very credible to me.  She even refers to them as "Sierra" instead of Vivendi, and most of her posts were revivals of topics that were years old.

[dark-daventry]

But I think they were made in September of 2005. It is possible, you can't deny that. Anything in this world can happen!

[awesomeasapossum]

But I think they were made in September of 2005. It is possible, you can't deny that. Anything in this world can happen!

Yeah....I can fly and if goats eat frozen toothpaste and are flattened by steamrollers they turn into VAMPIRES!!!!

[dark-daventry]

Really? I didn't know that! This world really can have the unexpected happen at any random moment!

[KingGraham]

The price was lowered to $17.99. I want to preorder it, but my dad won't let me. He wants me to wait until it's actually released before we order it. I don't think he believes in p[reordering something... Oh well.

This was sometime in October. Ironic.

[dark-daventry]

Yes, I made the post a while ago. But I did preorder them afterall.

[dark-daventry]

Again, I apologize for double posting, but I think it important. I have discovered that the compilations can ship to select cities outside the US. check out amazon to see for yourself. Now all we can do is wait and see what happens to these things... I am still waiting for a reply from VU.

[dark-daventry]

I know I'm triple posting  but this is IMPORTANT! We'll have to wait until DECEMBER 31st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew they would delay them again! Again, I apologize to the mods and everyone else, but I thought it important! Feel free to edit this in any way!

DD

UPDATE: SQ is listed for December 1st, 2006! Everything else is the 31st of December. I'm shocked!

[Moodyblues]

December 31st?  Hmm, maybe VU wants the games' re-release to coincide with the TSL's completion.  That's about as optimistic as I can get about this. 

[dark-daventry]

Maybe there's something they aren't telling us. Maybe there is a KQIX in the works, but we don't know about it yet. But that's just my dreaming. I still can't help but think they are working on an official KQIX. And I doubt that TSL would be released then. That's a day away from 2007, and they said 2006. But I could be worng!

WHY VU? WHY? WHY DO YOU TORTURE ME?

[awesomeasapossum]

Even if VU does release their own KQIX I'll still treat TSL as the TRUE KQIX. I will still call it KQIX and it will be KQIX. If VU does release their own KQIX I'll play it after I've beaten the REAL KQIX and I will treat it as a spin-off of POS' TSL which IS KQIX. I don't think that VU could make one as good as fans of the games could.

[dark-daventry]

Precisely. I'll do exactly what you said! The fans truly know what should happen. Fan fiction is a great example. There is a lot of great fan fiction out there, and most of it is good!


Edit- To avoid double posting, I will edit my posts with updates. Amazon has asked me to approve the delay. I now have a ship date of January 2nd, 2007, and a delivery of January 4th, 2007. They must have a good reason for delaying these. I suspect a KQIX in the works. There is evidence to support my theory, as follows:

1. VU wanted the game shut down. That may not be so much evidence, but still.

2. There is also the name change from KQIX to TSL.

3. There is a hint in a letter from Daniel Oskun, who was responding to letters about the shut down. He said, "At this time, we do not have enough inquieries from the public at large to pass this on to the developers of the King's Quest game..." That's as good as I could get to word for word.

4. There is a post made at the Sierra Planet forums, in which a girl claimed her uncle worked on artwork for KQIX, and that it would be out in 2007.

That's about all I have currently...

[KingGraham]

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[dew7]

I wonder why I have not seen anything posted about the collections on Sierra's or VU's websites.

[Lollotte]

Okay, dark-daventry, but then why did VU Games give TSL a fan liscence and not integrate them into an Official KQIX development team? one of the options that may have been supposedly talked over with VU is commercial adoption of the game for production. If they were producing an Official game, why would they let TSL continue?

[dark-daventry]

Here are my theories on that: They granted them a fan license because they had four years worth of development on it, and they didn't want to throw it all away for nothing. They also did this because of the overwhelming support of the fans. And what other reason would they delay these things three times for a long time? It makes no sense to me. You may not agree with me, but it is what I believe, so...

[Lollotte]

Okay, then why didn't they make them part of the Official KQIX development team? And why hasn't Roberta or Ken Williams heard anything about it?

[dark-daventry]

It's just a speculation, okay! I'm not the best at doing all these things!  Sorry if I sound mad, it's just I haven't thought it all out yet. But when they were doing a new LSL, the creator, or something like that, wasn't told. So it could be the same here. Or maybe she does know something, and we aren't being told... And about them not being on the development team, isn't it possible that they shut this thing down because of a new KQIX, and then brought it back because of the fans, but also having a new KQIX that they are focused on, and just gave in to us? It's just a speculation, nothing more. (Well, actually, I really believe that they are working on a KQIX, but still. At core, it's still a spec...)