SaveKQIX

[koko_99_2001]

Hey everyone,

I wanted to let everyone know that myself and many
other King's Quest fans have joined together and started an organization to try to save KQIX.

Our website address is:  www.savekqix.org

We feel very strongly that our best bet to save the
game is through a letter writing campaign.  If you care about KQIX and want to see it released, I strongly urge you to take 10 minutes and write a letter to Vivendi Universal Games.  Let them know how much you were looking forward to the game.

I know some of you may have already sent emails.  That's great, but we still need you to send a physical letter via the good ol' postal service.  A physical letter will have so much more of an impact than an email.  The emails are probably never seen by anyone except a couple of low level people who's job it is to check those email
accounts.  It's easy to dismiss thousands of emails.  But it's hard to ignore thousands of actual letters. Physical letters will have  more of a visual impact.  Think of how those Vivendi executives will feel when the see those stack and stacks of letters!

I know some of you may have also signed the petition that has been circulating.  We think the petition IS a great idea, but really believe that a personally written letter from each one of you, rather than the
same petition, will be EVEN more effective.  In fact, the person that created the petition is a major part of our organization.  Oh, and don't worry; if you've already signed the petition, it WILL be sent to
Vivendi. However, we ask that you still write a letter to them.

Visit our webpage for the mailing address to VU Games.  Stop by the
forums and say hello.  Let's make it known that there are a lot of adventure game fans out here that want to see the game released.  We need EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU in order to be successful.

Please, take 10 minutes out of your day to write that letter.  It's the
best chance we have to save KQIX!

Take care,

Cat

[Say]

Thank you for such a wonderful support Koko

[Warlock]

Yes, thank you, I love the site

[koko_99_2001]

It's not just me. It's a team effort. And I feel we've got a great team working on this project.

[Yonkey]

Thanks for the support, Koko!

Just to let everyone know, there are also two other awesome Save KQIX pages out there:

http://savekqix.bravehost.com/

and

Fanventures' Save KQIX page

For those of you who are interested in physically signing a petition, click here for more information.  

[Lollotte]

I absolutely love Save KQIX! It not only expresses my feelings about the game, but makes me feel empowered--there is something we all can do, after all. Thanks to everyone who put their time and effort into this! 

[TribeHasSpoken]

One thing I just thought of is that our efforts as fans to save the project should agree with the efforts of the developers to save the project. For example, it's one thing for us as fans to say that we'd welcome a commercial partnership between VU and POS to publish the game, but what if the developers wouldn't like that arrangement? If the publishers and the fans have the same ideas on saving the project, that's fantastic. If not, we need to figure out whether fighting this battle with two different strategies is helpful or detrimental to our overall goal.

Just my two copper coins of the Realm of Daventry.

[splat44]

Hi,

I am also in favor in saving KQIX.

Strange that VU seems to have remove link from their's forum especially the one
that explains the reason to shut down this project.

I guess we put enough presure on them and I hope that other website will do the same.

[mcomp72]

One thing I just thought of is that our efforts as fans to save the project should agree with the efforts of the developers to save the project. For example, it's one thing for us as fans to say that we'd welcome a commercial partnership between VU and POS to publish the game, but what if the developers wouldn't like that arrangement? If the publishers and the fans have the same ideas on saving the project, that's fantastic. If not, we need to figure out whether fighting this battle with two different strategies is helpful or detrimental to our overall goal.

Just my two copper coins of the Realm of Daventry.

While no one from KQIX is a member of our organization, someone did share with them what we would be talking about on our website, and they indicated they had no problem with any of it.  So I think we are in good share on that front.

--Matt

[zac353]

Ok, yeah this is great but I cant find the petition,
Where is it?

[splat44]

Ok, yeah this is great but I cant find the petition,
Where is it?

Petition is being found at:

http://www.postudios.com/blog/forum/index.php?topic=3003.msg122641#msg122641

[koko_99_2001]

Also, we encourage you to write a personal letter to Vivendi as well as signing the petition. The petitions will arrive at Vivendi on the same day in one package; the individual letters will have staggered arrival times.

[awesomeasapossum]

What address does the password come from? I need to add it to my "safelist." ( a thing that blocks all emails except for addresses put into it.)

[mcomp72]

Hey,

I just wanted to let everyone know that we're having to move the Save KQIX site to a different server.  The old server wasn't very reliable.

So the site may be down for the next day or so.

Hopefully by Monday, everything will be back up.

--Matt

[koko_99_2001]

Hey guys, another update. We've had several people mention that they are unable to find the time to write letters to Vivendi. The SaveKQIX team has come up with a way to help each of you out. By going to www.savekqix.org, and clicking on "how you can help," there is a link that will directly take you to your email, as well as coming up with the text into the body of the email. In other words, it will take all of 10 seconds for you to send this.

Thanks for all your participation!

[awesomeasapossum]

I sent the same message to them about 11 times!!

[TribeHasSpoken]

SaveKQIX.org has been mentioned on gaming blog "Kotaku"

Clicky

EDIT: Forum stretching

[nogoodreason]

I've not kept up-to-date with Sierra since the good ol' days of KQ.
Are Ken & Roberta Williams still in charge? (or were they bought out and consumed by Vivendi?)

I find it kinda hard to see Roberta condeming this project - which I only wish I'd discovered sooner {looks excellent} -   If Sierra has been eaten up by some big corporate giant who doesn't give a damn about fans of the old games, then has anyone asked Ken & Roberta to campaign for this game?  I reckon they'd help you out.


{apologies if someone's already brought this up. I've only just stumbled across this project!}

~ Dan

[Say]

This is not up to Robertal and Ken Williams, they are not part of Sierra and it's been like that quite some time ago. We can't ask them to do more than what they have, they've showed us support and they've both been glad with what they've seen, truth is, they're unable to do much hence they're on the same position that we are, completly alienated from VU without any contact, sad to say.

[nogoodreason]

It's depressing to think 20 years ago they *were* Sierra.  If they were still in charge we'd have some much better games out today...