KQIX Project shuts down

[koko_99_2001]

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Oops...back on topic

[Say]

Trying to get this back on topic, the official website of phoenix online studios is not available at the moment, obvious reasons.

We'll inform you all once it is.

[dark-daventry]

Thank you say. I check this forum about everyday, and I'll be as patient as I can for any developing news and whatnot... And it's usually hard for me to wait.

[TribeHasSpoken]

Perhaps we've ignored the obvious way to convince Vivendi to allow POS to release KQIX. We could take inspiration from the That 70s Show episode entitled "Leo Loves Kitty", where Fez wants to borrow Hyde's car:

FEZ: Please?
HYDE: No.
FEZ: Please?
HYDE: No.
FEZ: Please?
HYDE: No.
FEZ: Please please please please please please please please please...
TWO HOURS LATER
FEZ: ...please please please please please please please...

[mcomp72]

I actually have something that everyone could do to help.  Help us get the word out about the Save King's Quest IX website.  We need to spread the word to as many people as possible.   Do you know other adventure game fans?  Do you know any bloggers?  Are you active in any other forums?

We need to drive traffic to the site, so that Vivendi gets more and more emails.  So if you have some time, please help spread the word.

http://www.savekqix.org

And if you haven't sent an email to Vivendi yet, what the heck are you waiting for?   

[Say]

I must admit that "save kqix" has been doing an amazing job, thank you guys for showing that support, it means the world to us.

[koko_99_2001]

Thank you, Say, for your support.

I hope that SaveKQIX will generate the support that will show Vivendi how much we want this game.

[pigeonbird3]

kings quest is a fun game to play and the
new kings quest game  whould be cool.

[GunHoMac]

yes it should...if only someone thought of that....*delete*

[koko_99_2001]

You know, Pigeonbird, you can go to www.savekqix.org to participate and try to help save the game

[pigeonbird3]

kings quest 9 whould be a new world
to visit and to explorer.

[koko_99_2001]

You do know that the team didn't shut down voluntarily, right?

[awesomeasapossum]

You do know that the team didn't shut down voluntarily, right?

Yeah.... because if they did this whole site wouldn't be up still.

[daventryboy]

I have been monitoring the progress of this project (with much admiration) for some time now since I am a long time King's Quest enthusiast.  While I'm not terribly disappointed that the project has shut down, I definately would have downloaded and played it to the end if the project succeeded.  The skeptic in me can't help but wonder if this whole project was a facade, an elborate scheme to gain noteriety or visibility which would somehow convert into financial windfall.  Screenshots, sound clips, trailors, were these the only things that were actually created to string people along?  Why else would a project that, seemingly, had so many years of effort, thought and time, not to mention the thousands of salivating fans awaiting the finished product, been dropped so easily?  Trust would always be maintained by continually caveating each communication with statements like "if we were ever asked to stop, we would".  Oh well, who knows, I'm willing to give you guys the benefit of the doubt since, deep down, I want to believe this project would have flourished if given the chance.

One more question, instead of just chucking all the supposed development in the trash, why not offer it to VU to get them a jump start on any impending future realeases of the official KQIX?  This would, of course, be a bitter sweet ending but at least all your development wouldn't be in vain...

Perhaps I am just venting in frustration...

[GunHoMac]

You are just venting...otherwise you might have actually bothered to read the previous 60 pages of posts before you made your 1st post an official trolling flame one.

Offer to give the project to VU...damn if only someone thought of that...oh wait...they have.  This would've been the most feeble and shadowed attempt at gauging fan notoriety in adventure gaming without so much as a hint of it anywhere on VU's website.  Even now, they're supposedly offering the classics as compilations...and still no mention.  Since you clearly don't care if this project succeeds or fails...I'll be sure to give your next post the same consideration.

[TribeHasSpoken]

I see where you're coming from, GunHoMac, but was the tone really necessary? At least the guy is interested in supporting the team and the project, which is not something we should deride.

[racx_00]

I have to say that I agree with GunHoMac. The guy is saying it's all fake and yet he reckons he's been supporting it for some time. If you were supporting it you wouldn't be telling the creators that they're faking it all.

[daventryboy]

GunHo, have I touched a nerve?  Why the hostile tone?  Is there something painfully true about my mere wonderment?

In any case, I have neither the time nor inclination to pour over the 60 some pages of postings that may or may not have hit the marks I suggested.

I don't intend on being a regular on this forum so accept this as my final post and sentiment...if KQIX ever resurfaces as a fan based project or as an official release, I will indeed be a supporter.

[koko_99_2001]

*grabs the tranquilizer darts*

[Say]

I must comment on this issue, yet again. I want to let our friends around here that, you do mean the world to us, because we feel connected with you guys, we've been working on a dream for over 3 years and we're as passionate, or even more, than what you guys are. With all this situation going on, I want to let you know that everyone has an opinion about it, they either support or bash, but they shall not ignore it, and I do know how hard it is to read the same over and over again, that's why the staff is no longer replying to the same posts over and over if it's not really important, on the other hand, I do care, but speciall for those who day after day consider this forum a second home, or just a good choice to hang for a while every day. Guys, patience. Do not hesitate to vent your feelings, everyone has, but at the same time if you consider it's not worthy to reply then leave it to us to wether reply or not, don't get frustrated with all this, it's enough with us being worried to death about it.

I'm going to answer, again, some of his questions even though his concerned/worries were oriented in a -not so good- tone either, asumng things are a lie just because it felt right to do so at the moment, will get replies as the ones that he just got, and two wrongs won't make a right, so, from there post will just start getting deleted, because there's no point to it.

The skeptic in me can't help but wonder if this whole project was a facade, an elborate scheme to gain noteriety or visibility which would somehow convert into financial windfall.

I know you're frustrated, but so are we, and asuming the worst is probably some's first reaction. If we were seriously a glitch just trying to catch some money, would we seriously do it like this? wasting our time in vain for 3 years with FANS?, even though you're the market target, you're absolutly NO needed when it comes to the development and production stage, we need money for the costs and whatnot, which no matter how much you'd say you pay for the game, words are just void for us right now, we'd pitch an investor and then hit revenues to recover the investment and then make a profit out of it, and THAT is certainly not something that happens overnight and specially not with angel investors, IF that were the case, which I might say it is simply not. It's far too much for an elaborated scheme, noone has 3 years of their lives to spend so carelessly.

Screenshots, sound clips, trailors, were these the only things that were actually created to string people along?

Again, if that were true, we'd be doing everything wrong, money to start up a company, game, production, etc.; is just not on the fans, and certainly not over here and not like this. Promotion was a vital feature for us to get the team we have now, we needed to show whatever we had and as much as we had pleasing the goal of not "revealing" everything for one too many reasons, and thanks to that, we have the fan database we do right now, and most important of all we have the team we are right now, excellent staff, real professionals.

Why else would a project that, seemingly, had so many years of effort, thought and time, not to mention the thousands of salivating fans awaiting the finished product, been dropped so easily? 

Who said we dropped it? We've got a C&D letter, we might have done wrong, but we're not going to continue to do so specially when there are legal matters involved in such explicit way. If things would go really bad no fan is going to get us our of a legal hassle, period, so believe it or not, we are trying to make things right and we are protecting what we've done for so long to get the best outcome of it all. And that's all I can say about that right now, we're forbidden to discuss anything at the moment, VU's explicit wishes.

Trust would always be maintained by continually caveating each communication with statements like "if we were ever asked to stop, we would".  Oh well, who knows, I'm willing to give you guys the benefit of the doubt since, deep down, I want to believe this project would have flourished if given the chance.

Thanks, that's all we aim to have right now. I know it's a bad situation, but if you as a fan/supporter feel that way, can you imagine how we (the team) feel about this? people who has worked on this project for about 3 years (like Cesar, and Richard and me and others). It is frustrating, specially in the situation right now, anyone can say anything and we can't speak up because we're legally tied up. We can't show and we can't reply to one thousand emails everywhere to clear up the situation, all we hope is that whoever who thinks that way would come around and understand what's going on, and as you said, if you don't believe maybe give us the benefit of doubt

One more question, instead of just chucking all the supposed development in the trash, why not offer it to VU to get them a jump start on any impending future realeases of the official KQIX?  This would, of course, be a bitter sweet ending but at least all your development wouldn't be in vain...

We are NOT over, and please understand that right now is no moment for me to speak about such. But KQIX is not going to be trashed away, you can bet on that.

Once again, thank you all for reading, I hope I've cleared up things again for all those new comers and for all those frustrated hopes
Wether you believe or not, it's great that you at least come around and give us your thoughts, if you don't care it was certainly bothering you enough to just show up around and give your two cents


PS: GunHo, we u!