Sandy Petersen has Changed the Terms of Your Interest-Free Loan to Him

Pro tip: don't search Google for "mystery package"

From the BGG thread:

www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=901886511952573

www.linkedin.com/company/quimbleys
piki ventures - www.linkedin.com/in/david-m-evans
I can't get the FB link open, what is it about

EDIT: Nevermind, switching browsers and machines helped.

So, if that is their new partner, they seem to have sprung into existence last august, and the one guy identifiable is from aircraft business.

EDIT 2: this is their owner www.linkedin.com/in/thepaulhallett/ - who was apparently looking for a creative director with print experience two days ago.

So if this is accurate, Petersen games new partner is a very new company, and their principals have no / very limited experience if toy and game manufacturing.

Apparently, they found some people to create a new company, Quimbleys, with zero experience in the industry. That's the downside. The upside for everyone still involved is that they're not Sandy and Arthur. There has been some concern, based on random statements made, that instead of the usual gobs of plastic approach that is PG's, this new company might be a little more, uh, expedient in terms of production, which means that you might end up seeing pressed wooden figures (easier to tool for, I guess?) and/or standees created just to get the games into production.

Looks like they've got a few things going on along with H.C. Quimbley's Games.

Quimbley's Manufacturing
opencorporates.com/companies/us_ut/13852944-0142
Quimbley's Inc
opencorporates.com/companies/us_ut/13848492-0142
HCQ Management
opencorporates.com/companies/us_ut/13791302-0142

Call me crazy, but I look at my mountain of CW and find myself wondering how much space I'd save if everything were colored acrylic standees.

After the I heard about Lincoln throwing a tantrum with the Discord server, I decided to go pop my head back in there (I still had access, though I generally spend very little time on Discord). Unfortunately I could be misremembering (this may have come from BGG), but I think Lincoln hinted that they were considering a path where they would give you an option to get a different version of Hyperspace with "different components" sooner, IE. probably laser-cut standees, or wait for the mini version. Now, for a company that struggles mightily with logistics, this seems absolutely idiotic. But tell me Hyperspace is now going full-color acrylic standees only, I'd probably be fine with it...

As to the Mystery Box, I went ahead and threw my personal info at it. I just did a quick Google search and found my home address very easily, it's not like you're giving up that much. But yeah, I'm expecting basically an advertisement for this new company with some piece-together laser-cut somethingorother. Maybe a dice tower?

It looks like the new company is entirely new and the people involved have project management experience, but not game publishing experience.

Well, this past weekend Sandy posted on X/Twitter that he was asked to delete his account and was going to do it. So clearly the "new benefactor" doesn't take kindly to mild transphobia and other old-man-isms. Curiously, I looked and it's still there: x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/1794093016660980178

Edit: can't get the Tweet to be inline, so you get a link

I think Sandy is still busy milking the sympathy for his unjust persecution.

Also someone is claiming a thread on BGG got removed about discord, but I can't remember which thread they're talking about. That seems a bit unlikely that someone in this saga would have enough weight to get BGG to start removing evidence...

The new partner/owner has stated something along the lines of not discriminating against anyone. They removed the politics section of the discord, which was the Petersens’ cesspit of shitty opinions.

The BGG thread in question was created by a sock puppet account used to attack the new owners. It had screenshots of some poorly worded posts from discord.
BGG probably removed it just because it was created by someone’s fake account, not for other reasons. They have deleted similar accounts/threads in the past.

Personally, I’m not sure yet, but it looks like the new partner/owners are doing some good things. They are attempting to establish some professionalism, they are putting the Petersens’ nonsense and erratic behavior to rest, they are trying to establish a path forward. Not everyone is going to be happy with their solutions and decisions, but like any bad situation a compromise is better than nothing.

I have been feeling less angry about all the bullshit of that garbage family and their handling of other people’s money. I started wanting to play with CW again. I think things are heading up for the customers still owed so much, which is all that matters.

I’ve been a very vocal detractor of theirs for a long time. I think it may be time to let that go and give the new guy a real chance.