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Sodan-1 wrote:There's been a fairly minor update to google.com. Connecting to the site is no longer accompanied by the pop-up panel suggesting you become a member. A shopping cart has also been added to the bottom right of the homepage.

I noticed the membership popup was gone but not the shopping cart. Nothing to put in it yet!

So really ? FP is going to go more than a whole year without releasing anything? I say that because there is no indication that Steelcore and not broadside will be done before 2013.

Fansproject was the best at the 3rd party game but now , well a year hiatus is very disappointing.

shonmurphy2004 wrote:So really ? FP is going to go more than a whole year without releasing anything? I say that because there is no indication that Steelcore and not broadside will be done before 2013.

Fansproject was the best at the 3rd party game but now , well a year hiatus is very disappointing.

Not nessecarily. I seem to recall seeing a snippit of Steel Core's packaging in a picture somewhere.

shonmurphy2004 wrote:So really ? FP is going to go more than a whole year without releasing anything? I say that because there is no indication that Steelcore and not broadside will be done before 2013.

Fansproject was the best at the 3rd party game but now , well a year hiatus is very disappointing.

Looks like you're in the wrong thread.
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How would the subscription service work?

Stormrider wrote:How would the subscription service work?

Good question..Fp never replies to any emails I send pertaining to the matter so I guess were gonna have to wait and see. Maybe it will be like a pre-order kind of system.. They show the figures and you pay the fee for let's say, 50 bucks a peice. Then you receive the figures, possibly with some kind of comic etc etc in monthly intervals? I might be reaching I know :p

I gotta say that if I'm paying for a subscription (which is a big "if" at the moment), then FP had better do two things right:
1) Better communication plan including timely images, updates and teasers
2) Release the figures when the say so and not play loose with the release dates

If I start paying for a service I'm going to be expecting more. Up until now I had just laid money down for a figure so it didn't really matter to me when the figure came out. If I pay for a service, I will be expecting precisely what that service describes and I will be as harsh on FansProjects as I will be the TFCC if either fail in their subscription service.

As cool as subscription services are in theory, they kinda suck in actuality when you don't care about half the figures (or more) that they include. I don't care about FPJ's original concepts, at least not at 3rd Party prices. And I don't care about the majority of TFCC's figures either. So now I'm stuck paying inflated prices for 6 figs when I really only (somewhat) care about 2 of them...or whatever the case may be. It would be nice if you could at least subscribe to the 'subscription' you want. Imagine a magazine subscription where one month you get Playboy, the next you get Hunting & Fishing, the next you get Golf Mag, then Car World...etc. WTF? I want to sign up for the sub that gets me only figures that fit in the Classics universe...or from FPJ, only figs that theft IP of G1 characters.

I honestly don't have enough faith in Fansproject to commit to a subscription service.

They are not timely in their product delivery or with their information delivery.

They launched an ambitious website that has really gone nowhere. Why would I trust them with my money for longer than PayPal will allow me to file a claim for?

They've made some good stuff but this reeks of failure.