I don't think anyone here was thinking they wouldn't play MA the next time. No semi-formal competition can hold a candle to MA. I know I can't speak for everyone and the group here doesn't speak for the rest of the people who have the packets.

I know that if you asked us not to do this *I* wouldn't participate. If you asked us to not include anyone who wasn't in the invitational I think we can and should respect that. I think it was great that you guys gave us the packets and the key and I wouldn't want to do anything to abuse that so you don't do it again (even though it sounds like you won't be because of this).

~HBTF

Mousepod, meet Alex. Now you know why we love Alex. :)

More on this later - this needs to sit for a bit, I think.

;) Are you calling us easy?

I hope we all can dig where Alex and the folks at MP are coming from. The awesome game is owned by them, and we don't want to step on their toes. So please, let's have no more discussion of any kind of organized game of the unplayed Open, and no heretic talk of producing or distributing any of MP's materials.

If you cats want to jam on down to the Park and casually run through the version of the game that you didn't get to play, then there's no stopping you - and I don't think there should be. But we have to leave unto MousePlanet that which is MousePlanet's.

For us out of towners it would be fun to have a copy of the mouse adventure material from games gone by. Since each one is different I could only think that it would encourage more people to make it for the real thing. On the other hand, they could also charge some small percentage of the original fee and allow us to download PDF's of the game.

Great idea, but you'd be better off pursuing this at MousePad than on this message board.

Errr, ummm, that's ok. I think I'll just drop it.

Just to briefly answer your questions, MP has never handed out game packets up until this MA, so there would be nothing available to download. The answer to your final sentence is something that might likely be addressed in the future (but not in the near term). Nice and vague, huh? ;)

Hard answers to your questions may or may not be answered over at MP. :D But although you've already declined, anybody else who has questions really should post it over there.

could be an excellent way to raise a dollar per copy(you may be able to get more) for nothing more then allowing a download. just a thought, and any of the MP folks reading this can take this idea and use it as their own idea. you own the game, sell it.