Love how Doug said on here they were cutting down on the CE's, saving them only for the big titles, and just about every single numbered game they've released since has had a CE.
It's pretty much a safe assumption to assume every LRG related word out of doug's mouth on a public forum is meant to either cover their asses or get people to stop asking the same questions. His Reddit AMA was nothing but him deflecting or saying "we've been looking into it and plan to announce ___ soon!" regarding stuff like their EU branch, faster shipping/fulfillment times, certain games people wanted physically, etc. For literal *years* now they've said they plan to hire more people, be more transparent, and speed up shipping times, and nothing has budged on any of that outside of some blog posts about ETAs for popular items.
I don't doubt they will cut back on CEs and stop the 100+ dollar ones for a bit, but I think that's less due to them feeling nice about it and more because they really didn't sell as well as they used to: the javascript page source numbers seem to have been close enough of a range to what stuff sold on the site, seeing how Pogs (an item i noticed didnt do so hot) were outright stated by josh to not have done as well as they hoped, and have pretty much stopped. Skate decks also weren't doing so good in numbers, and they seem to be slowing down (The Valis Collection II ones i noticed sold under 100 units before preorders closed, which ain't good!), so really it seems to me that LRG will keep making CEs as long as people keep buying em... And I guess the $65 range CEs, as boring as most of them are lately, seem to be what do good enough for them.
Shame it takes 12+ months to make any of them and then they sit in the warehouse for 2+ more months to actually reach anyone. I'm gobsmacked at how several of my friends have told me they still don't have the sunsoft or Jeremy Parish books they ordered months ago, or it took at least a month after ordering for them to ship out. That's
pitiful for an in-hand item.
Maybe Doug could focus on getting those in-hand items people bought for christmas and such out the door, rather than bickering with people and trying to debunk aspects that make the company look bad (and sure enough, it seems he never really proved that those javascript numbers were false, just inaccurate since they don't account for cancellations or other stores that order stock from LRG, but they're sure a sign of what does better than others... not to mention the field has been tampered with manually a few times since he started posting here, since I noticed a few games like Skatebird gained 30K in that field during the course of that preorder, lol).