AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR: Thanks For Sticking Out the Rough Stuff
by Indie Jones
Ladies and gentlemen ... [Clears throat]
THE BIG CHAIR SENDS A MEMO
TO: You
FROM: We
RE: Shenanigans, Hooliganism, Scoring Delays and The Belated Launch of the January-March Season of Fantasy Moguls
From all of us who sit, Wizard of Oz-like, behind the curtain of Fantasy Moguls, a word to all of our friends, Romans, countrymen and other denizens of the Fantaverse: Sorry!
As some of you may have noticed, we had a few bugs in the system in November, December and the first couple of weekends of the New Year. We appreciate the tremendous patience demonstrated by all of our loyal participants. Like Sally Field, now we know that you like us. You really like us. You must, or we'd surely have driven you batty with our recent and unfortunate system malfunctions, which resulted in the scoring mechanism being delayed several times and prevented the timely deployment of our January-March season.
Maybe we did drive you batty. We're very thankful, however, that you didn't bail on us. We've had our Top Men/Women ("Who?" "Top. Men.") working to solve the problems, and we're confident that they won't ever happen again. Er. Well, we at least know a lot more about the trouble spots than we did. And it's our New Year's Resolution to provide you with better service than ever. So keep going to the movies, and keep coming to Fantasy Moguls to experience the rush that only wielding real power and influence (OK, pretend real power and influence) can provide.
Here's to another smashingly successful year! We couldn't do it without you.
Sincerely,
The Crew
Wow.
Posted by: J.I. | January 10, 2008 at 01:16 PM
[Clapping]
Everyone eventually encounters rougher seas than they expect, or that they'd like. The best captains stay on an even keel and weather the storm. Fair winds and following seas, my friends.
I remain, as always...
Nico.
Posted by: Nicodemus the Sage | January 10, 2008 at 07:19 PM
Thanks, guys, I really appreciate that. I found the problems last month (Black Christmas) to be quite frustrating, but now everything seems Ziggy Stardust.
Now if only you guys could somehow orchestrate it that good films could be released this season. ;-)
Posted by: numbersix_99 | January 11, 2008 at 05:51 AM
Thanks guys, this is what we have all been waiting for. Hoping that you do read this, there is still one major problem. The final scores of the recently completed October-December leagues are wrong. The totals are updated all the way through January 7th when the last updates were done. They should have ended the 31st of December. This has caused the wrongful league winners, as National Treasure 2 had a large jump in its intake, as well as other films. I'd like to see this fixed. Thank you for your concern.
Posted by: geezer9687 | January 11, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Any chance of there being a way to erase/remove the old studios from the past seasons?
Posted by: aadams | January 11, 2008 at 01:48 PM
It was a maddening stetch, only because of my impatience to get out of last spot in my league and going batty waiting for the scores to update to see if I had succeeded. I have, and you all have, and all is now well in the world. On a side note, while you were working out the kinks, did you happen to slip in that feature where you hide studio slates until the day of a movie's release? My league eagerly awaits that one.
Posted by: ScoVT | January 11, 2008 at 04:08 PM