When an online shop gets from the publishers information about a new expansion - then some of the online shops put a space in there shop system even if the expansion will produce in some months. Some online shops put this "space" hidden for the public but some put it in the "open area" where all people can see it. That is a usual business here. One of the shops is "spiele-offensive" who put the inoformation in the "open area" - they do it since many years.
When I send mini-expansions like "the Windroses", "Castles in Germany", "Cloisters in Germany" also the "demo game CC II" and "Cathedrals of Germany" to the CarcC community - I've got this expansions from HiG through Udo Schmitz (Carcassonne-on-Tour) all for the CarcC. So please don't say the action with the "windroses" was the only action.
When an author of a fan-expansion for Carcassonne use graphic elements from elsewhere of the internet and he don't ask the owner of this graphic if he is allowed to use it for a part of the landscape tile and to show it online at an other homepage than that from where he/she get this grapics. The best way is when the author create an own graphic element which he likes to use for the fan-expansion. If he can't paint such element, than he can ask the CarcC or CarcF community for help.
HiG is the publisher of the Carcassonne games (and the Carcassonne spin-off games) - they own the graphic - they allowed us to use such graphics to create fan-expansions.
Quote from: kettlefish on December 21, 2016, 11:07:26 AMWhen an online shop gets from the publishers information about a new expansion - then some of the online shops put a space in there shop system even if the expansion will produce in some months. Some online shops put this "space" hidden for the public but some put it in the "open area" where all people can see it. That is a usual business here. One of the shops is "spiele-offensive" who put the inoformation in the "open area" - they do it since many years. I know this. What I don't know is why it is OK for them to do this while there are people on these forums (well, you) who know the details but aren't allowed to share them even though they're already being shared elsewhere?
Quote from: kettlefish on December 21, 2016, 11:07:26 AMWhen I send mini-expansions like "the Windroses", "Castles in Germany", "Cloisters in Germany" also the "demo game CC II" and "Cathedrals of Germany" to the CarcC community - I've got this expansions from HiG through Udo Schmitz (Carcassonne-on-Tour) all for the CarcC. So please don't say the action with the "windroses" was the only action.Wind Roses. Where are the posts for the other giveaways?I hope I don't seem ungrateful as I'm aware that you've sent me stuff to give away as prizes in some of the online competitions I've organised in the past. But there were very few of these compared to the Wind Roses and I've spent well over £100 on postage since then to get them to peoples doorsteps, rather than with the Wind Roses where HiG paid for everything.
I have to agree with you What If? In my experience, Carcassonnes's owners – HiG – don't seem to have much of an interest in Carcassonne Central at all. Or if they do, they're certainly not showing it. They've had an account here since February 2013 but have only posted nine times since then and last logged in back in August (which is actually surprisingly recent – I was expecting it to be at least a year ago). It might be that they're better engaged with their fans through Carcassonne Forum (our German sister site) where there isn't the same kind of language barrier, but the fact that I have to have everything I read there translated through Google means I don't spend a lot of time there and can't really comment.
Don't get me wrong about any of this. I recognise that HiG are a business and that if they want to stay in business then they have to make money, which usually means targeting their stuff at whoever they can sell most of it to (i.e. not us since most of us already own pretty much everything). I also recognise that they know much more about running a business than I do and so don't feel especially outraged that they have made decisions which don't seem to benefit me or the majority of Carcassonne's hardcore fans (i.e. us). Am I annoyed by it? Yes, a bit. But I'd rather they made sufficient money to keep the game alive by reaching out to new players if the alternative is that they have to kill it off because it's not economically viable to keep it alive for a few hundred fans. If that happens, everyone loses...
Quote from: stalcupojoy on December 21, 2016, 01:41:30 AMQuote from: jungleboy on December 21, 2016, 12:25:44 AMBut FYI, Catapult is Expansion 7. ) Oops. Don't know what I was thinking. Edited.I have dishonored The Tower. The next time you play with The Tower you must start with one tower foundation less than your opponents. Only then can balance be restored to the Carcassonne universe after this grave insult...
Quote from: jungleboy on December 21, 2016, 12:25:44 AMBut FYI, Catapult is Expansion 7. ) Oops. Don't know what I was thinking. Edited.I have dishonored The Tower.
But FYI, Catapult is Expansion 7.
Quote from: danisthirty on December 21, 2016, 05:37:05 AMWhat do you add if you don't want any fun? Darmstadt mixed with v2.0.
What do you add if you don't want any fun?
Maybe old edition of carcassonne will be replaced by the new edition¿¿?? And the new expansions only will be for the new edition??...
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