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LimitedRunDoug
I've been a regular customer of Limited Run since they started out — I still own my "Breach & Clear" for Vita. As the company has grown so shockingly huge and changed how it operates over the years, I've understood some of the shifts in the model; doing pre-orders ahead of production means we have to wait a lot longer, yes, but it ensures that nobody has to get left out in the cold because everything is snapped up in seconds of its availbility like in the old days. And the ever-increasing delays in production/shipping? With both Limited Run's massive increase in size and the recent global choke points in supply chain, I suppose those were somewhat inevitable side effects. Hopefully those can be overcome, and y'all can get back on track eventually.
But there's
one thing I really, really miss, and I don't think it'd be a huge undertaking to bring it bck. You guys used to actively provide updates on each game's status — telling people what games were in active printing, what games were currently shipping out, what was just now being packed up, etc. There's even
still a page for that on the website! But sadly, all it's good for now is telling you what isn't out yet (everything forthcoming is listed as "in production" regardless of whether it's even started to be printed, and games just vanish from that section when they're shipped out... that's all it's good for). This means that we have no way of knowing when a game will be delayed past its projected release date.
I most recently received my order of "Valis: The Fantasm Soldier" last week. It was originally stated to be out by the end of summer, and instead it arrived at the end of October. I had no way of knowing this delay was coming because I never knew what the status of the game was! I never had any idea a game was even finally coming our way until I saw someone else who ordered a copy had received theirs. As it stands, the only way to check up on "where are we at in the production cycle, are we getting a delay, etc" is to contact customer support individually - and that's a drag on your own CS resources that you could easily bypass if those updates were provided on the site again.
I REALLY hope you'll consider bringing back these updates in the future. Let us know the status of the games in the pipe. What's still in the queue? What's being put through the process of being created right now? What's currently shipping? Have there been new delays? It'd be
hugely helpful to have that info again... somewhere. Anywhere, really!