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[nodtveidt]

The second pressing was ordered some time ago but it was kept under wraps until the order was completely smoothed out. Looks like we're good to go now, so the sponsor has authorized a pre-order.

http://www.frozenutopia.com/

It should arrive sometime in late November/early December.

[Lochlan]

What was the catalyst that triggered your reversal?  Originally the website said there would never be a reprint--so clearly you guys went into this deliberately intending NOT to do exactly what you are now doing.

And can you say how many more are being produced?  I'm curious to know what the upper limit is for these sorts of projects.  It took 1 year+ (something like that?) to sell the original 500 (minus copies lost in shipping)--although there does seem to be more interest in the platform lately, and presumably the omgzrare prices on eBay are signalling some additional demand.

[Lochlan]

not trying to sound pissy... but just want to offer an outsider's opinion: rover is not deserving of gougetard-suspicion.

Wha??

I am not suggesting that at all...

Not sure how that came across wrong.  I was just asking what made them change their mind and how many were being produced, there was literally nothing about that intended to label or demonize Rover or Frozen Utopia, a person and group I highly respect.

Edit: I guess maybe the link and directness of my question seemed aggressive or something?  Don't read too much into it, I'm asking because I want to know more about the viability of homebrew in the market and what kind of real numbers can get sold.  That's why I'm asking.  It has nothing to do with gouging.

[nodtveidt]

The game is still in high demand and someone (I will let him reveal his name if he so chooses to do so) put up the funds for a second pressing as a result. He came to me about it and asked me that if he were to fund a second pressing, would I do it. I said sure. This was about a month or so ago, I believe. A short while later, we started the process of bringing MSR back to press. All the details got ironed out, and here we are now.

EDIT: there are 500 new discs.

[Desh]

The game is still in high demand and someone (I will let him reveal his name if he so chooses to do so) put up the funds for a second pressing as a result. He came to me about it and asked me that if he were to fund a second pressing, would I do it. I said sure. This was about a month or so ago, I believe. A short while later, we started the process of bringing MSR back to press. All the details got ironed out, and here we are now.

EDIT: there are 500 new discs.

Awesome news!  And a big thanks to the original developers and the unnamed good Samaritan that ponied up the dough for another print!

[reno5]

Thanks for this. I pre-ordered a copy !

[nodtveidt]

Just a quick heads-up... this second run is not exactly the same as the first... it is a slightly upgraded version of the game. There were some minor cosmetic fixes, as well as a couple of major errors fixed that we didn't catch in the beta test. The code was also streamlined in a few places due to my assembler modification. However, nothing new was added and nothing existing was taken out... it is still the same game as it was before.

[Mishran]

So nothing to warrant a second purchase aside from collectard purposes?

What are these major errors you mentioned Rover? I, as well as many others have completed the game without running into any problems, so they would be more or less random occurrences? This, admittedly, is the first I've heard of any problems with the game so if it was mentioned about before, I missed it.

[nodtveidt]

TBD ran into one of the errors during their review. The other error was an equipment error... something didn't quite work as designed. Neither error manifests in the normal game but in the EX game.

The reason this was put out was because people are still demanding it, not to make people rush out to buy it all over again. If I was interested in making people buy it all over again, I would have overhauled all of the graphics and upgraded it to the Eternal Silence game engine.

[esteban]

Good to hear.

[xelement5x]

Nice, glad to see that it is coming!  Now to scrape up the extra cash for a copy

[PixyJunket]

I'm going to put in a preorder after the month flips over, thanks for the reprint.

[ctophil]

Sounds good.  I also appreciate the reprint.  I didn't even know the game existed until like a few weeks ago; so I wasn't around during the first print. 

I will surely put in my pre-order in November. 

[clackattack]

Awesome news on the reprint! I ended up scoring a copy from our good friend KeithCourage for a good deal I couldnt refuse. Hell, I may still end up pre-ordering a second print copy just to have the 2 versions...

[spida1a]

This is great news!     
In case you want to see some video of the actual game itself, here's a review from last year (special thanks to the Frozen Utopia gang):