Reply To: BattleTech: Mercenaries – CGL does a shipping booboo? Internet rages!

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Update on the KS as of today:

International Shipping

• VAT has been secured for the UK and EU. We are waiting on one more document to clear for the UK.
• Hubs are counting inventory and providing understock/shortage reports (due Monday)
• Then, final shipments for any stock shortages will be sent to each hub. Shipments will take 2-4 weeks depending on location and size of shipment
• Once that is complete, regional fulfillment begins

So I’m not holding my breath that RoW will get anything delivered before the end of October 2024. At the same time most US backers will have their pledges delivered. Sad.

And in addition to that:

Cookbook
It was recently reported that a majority of the recipes in the soon-to-release BattleTech Cookbook were compiled from internet sources. This is correct. The contractor assembling the cookbook relied on relaxed copyright protection concerning internet-published recipes. Our own investigation into this turned up a lot of confusion and uncertain procedure, but at the very least our preference would have been to publish a credits/source listing as part of the copyright page.

While this has been corrected in our ebook version of the BattleTech Cookbook, it was missed on the print version. Still, we are frustrated by this oversight. As such, Catalyst Game Labs will donate all profits from this product among several charitable organizations.

We are grateful to the community for its understanding and ongoing support.

So basically CGL paid someone to “make us a cookbook” and that person just grabbed what ever they could find on the internet. Grand! Could they have fumbled any more?