None.

If you want I can just add this to the post-Christmas to-do list along with the article. What do you think? I already had something similar written up that I sent to all users of this forum that showed interest in the early stages of the petition, so it should be easy.

Well let's hope so. And again I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but I think it's kinda presumptuous to assume that Square goes by the same numbers your article gave. Their ratio could be as low as 1:10 for all we know.

Right, I thought about that, that's why I tossed in the comment about FFChronicles. There's still the question of whether Square will believe the number of potential fans represented by the 25,000 would outnumber the number of fans who would buy a new game.

Square can still tell us to stop using any pictures and music from their game. Not that that would hit us very hard. They have no legal case to try to stop the petition entirely; this is completely within our citizens' rights to assemble peacefully. Now, they still might try to do it, but I don't see why they would bother. An actual remake project like Resurrection or CT:RP would affect them a hell of a lot more than a petition like this. All they would have to do is throw all the boxes they receive from us away, and then ignore Chrono Fans that get pissed at them when they say no.

This might seem like a big deal, but it's only 25,000 of us. This is something I've been thinking about. All of Square's recent RPG's went greatest hits... which means they sold over 1 million copies right (seriously, is that right or am I mistaken?)? So, if every game they're releasing ends up getting bought by 1 million fans, I wonder if they'll actually think twice about 25,000... I mean, consider the opportunity cost of this in their eyes. They could have a team working on a new RPG, which have shown them a very large amount of success lately, or they could have the team working on a franchise (that they seem to think of as dead) for 25,000 fans that "promised" they'd buy the game over the last few years.

Just food for thought. This is not taking into account little points like the fact that FFChronicles went greatest hits (and obviously Square knows this), or that Square might assume 25,000 might actually mean 17,000 because they'll assume we're getting people we know who haven’t ever heard of Chrono Trigger to sign it as a favor.

Not trying to get anyone down, just wondering what you guys think about this.

Non Sequitor- My last final is Monday, but I've been keeping busy moving out of my apartment and back to Minnesota, an effort that concludes on the 22nd. You guys mind if I don't submit the article until then?

Yeah, finals are pretty much over so I'm writing it now. But like I said, we don't want to advertise too much before we can report any signatures that we may be able to get independently of that mass advertisement. The reason being that if a bunch of people get linked to the site and see no or very few signatures reported they might give up on us immediately. However, if we wait until we have a hundred or a few hundred, they may realize how serious we are and be more enthusiastic to sign. If we decide we want to send it in now though, I'll post it sooner.

^ Has admitted me into the Nintendo gang.

AWESOME... what's the nintendo gang?

Stoney, it doesn't seem like you've been paying attention. We don't want the article any longer. We want it shorter. We don't want more quotes from Jake, if any. We want to keep the reader's interest in the petition, not in Jake. It's persuasive writing. I had to do it several times with fundraising post-Katrina. We need to keep the article short and saturated with information about the petition that applies to the readers. If we put in too much unnecessary information, about Jake for example, the readers will get off course thinking about what got them into Chrono Trigger... then before they know it they're at the end of the article, and haven't taken anything out of it. In writing like this you want to lead the reader to an end, not just entertain them.

I'll take care of it when I get some time. Wont be too long, finals are just a few more days. I appreciate the help though.


EDIT: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound harsh. I just want this article to work as well as it can.

MarioKart DS. I'll let you know when I get it.

I don't think internet aliases are legally binding. You can try though.

Apoc- Don't worry about it. I'll find a picture. It's finals week, so it might be a few days, but I'll get you one.

Originally posted by MichaelVash7886

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Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, Rocky, ROCKY! Lol.

I should come up with a really funny petition.

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You should write a petition in binary code... except, instead of a 1, write "Rocky" and instead of a 0, write "ROCKY."

I'd sign it.

This topic is obsolete.

Rocky?

Sidenote: I ran up the Rocky steps the other day in Philly.

Ok... so what's the word for someone who's attracted to machines?

Just kidding Jake. And don't worry about the Marle quote. Like I said, this isn't an interview. We wont be getting in depth about you nearly enough to cover that.

A counter on the site... we could have even designed it like the Epoch's time gauge.

Her body is covered in opaque, environmentally resistant metal that arm cannon blasts barely phase. How would third person view be any more exciting for you?

Oh by the way, I was thinking and we might want to hold off on the Slashdot article for a little while, maybe just till we get a couple hundred signatures. I'm afraid that, even if everyone who reads the article looks at the site, if they don't see any signatures recorded they'll think it's a lost cause and we'll lose potential signatures we may have been able to get later. I think if they visit the site and see that things are going well, however, they'll be more likely to contribute.

What do you guys think?

I've decided to merge the two. Stoney's is too long. Also, I told Joystiq what we're up to, they might contact me about writing an article for them.

EDIT: Ok, Joystiq acted faster than I thought, and mentioned us in an article about the late remake project.

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000567072264/

Not the coverage I was hoping for, but let's hope it'll get us some signatures.

I'll use your age, and maybe make fun of you for getting into the game because you thought Marle was hot. This isn't an interview, the readers wont be curious about the life stories of the staff (no offense Jake). The purpose of the article is to keep the readers interested through all the information about our petition. If we do that, we'll get people visiting. If we bore them, they'll move on to another article and may never visit our site.

You guys understand my reasoning for writing this concisely?

Stoney-

Article's written well. Still some thing's I would change though. If you want me to look at it instead, I can. It's a little long for Slashdot, so I'll probably tweak it (with your permission) to keep the readers interested.

Which one do you guys want me to look at?