Ah, late 2020 (or mid 2019 for you Swaggers), a heady time. The pandemic was finally at its end with a vaccine on the way, and soon we would all be grabbing eggplants with the Truxton ship in Game Paradise.
User DoomsDave shared his Radirgy Swag preorder from July 2019, placing us now at year 5 of the current timeline:
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July 1, 2021
By July 2021 we were all getting delta covid and no Game Paradise. An apology did come in the form of the promise of a digital download. But hey, they say products are in the pipe to ship!
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July 9, 2021
Oh yeah, here we go. The package cover has been approved by the ESRB. It's happening! It's really in the pipe!
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July 13, 2021
The next week, here's a photo of the LE. And a promise that the waitlist will be addressed!
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July 22, 2021
Three weeks after being told digital codes were coming, we were told digital codes were coming. At the end of the month.
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July 25, 2021
A mere 9 months after orders put in, waiting list is closed! Updates coming! Waiting on confirmations!
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July 30 2021
Ten days after being told digital codes were coming, which was three weeks after we were previously told digital codes were coming, digital codes weren't coming. But hey, stuff outside of people's control happens.
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August 10, 2021
A week and a half later, in a classy move Japanese publisher City Connection stepped up and issued an apology for the problems they had nothing to do with around Game Paradise.
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August 13, 2021
A couple of days later, still waiting on those downloads. But hey, a shipment is scheduled! Of something! At the end of the month again.
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September 14 2021
One month later:
Nothing shipped. But hey, a cart, it's real! In a warehouse! Game targeted to ship - wait for it - at the end of the month.
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September 15 2021
A promise of an update appears!
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September 15 2021
6 weeks after the wait list was closed, the wait list is not closed:
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October 4 2021
Three weeks later:
Yet as our tale turns, the shipping at the end of the month thing didn't happen. Again. For such is fate's cruel whim, and happenstance might well conspire to place events beyond one's control. To some people, it happens a lot.
It's all good though. Notifications going out soon!
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January 18, 2022
THREE.
AND A HALF.
MONTHS.
LATER.
Notifications didn't go out soon. Though a promise of an update appears! Again! But who could get mad at cute little arcade attendant Yuki? (Not me, TBH)
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March 6 2022
SEVEN.
WEEKS.
LATER.
Aw yeah! That announcement of an update that was announced in the last announcement of an update has finally arrived in style!
The update? THERE SHOULD BE NOTIFICATIONS! ABOUT SOMETHING! GOING OUT!! When, you ask?
~~Around~~
THE END OF THE MOOOOOONNNNTHH!!!!! Aw yesss.
People who bought the LE will find out 〜later〜
And the big twist at the end? An announcement of an announcement of an update, in this update announcement announced in the last announcement of an update. And it will be LARGER. It will contain DETAILS!!
Spoiler
April 13 2022
In a Shyamalan-level twist, it turned out there was no update, announcement of an update, or literally anything at the end of the month.
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JUNE 7 2022
And lo, there came a tweet!
BRB, circling 'shortly' on my calendar.
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JULY 9 2022
I guess it's not shortly yet.
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SEPTEMBER 3 2022
As we round the corner on the quarter-year anniversary of "shortly," NeoStrayCat comes to the thread bearing grim tidings:
https://seafoamgaming.com/2022/09/03/di ... our-money/NeoStrayCat wrote:Well, it looks like probably Dispatch Games has since been dispatched into the ether.
As the linked article points out, Dispatch's business license has been revoked for non-payment of administrative fees in both California (where it was set up) and Tennessee (where it is currently listed):
Full credit to Seafoam Gaming for the detective work.
While this isn't official word that the company has ceased any and all future operations, it's not exactly a glowing beacon of hope when your business can't afford the barest semblance of legal existence.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The saga continues, Wu Tang, Wu Tang...
Is there some kind of mental condition that specifically blocks people from just typing out an honest, straightforward sentence?
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LIKE BARELY AN HOUR BEFORE THE END OF SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Turns out he just got his business entity revoked in two different states and didn't do anything about it for a month (and only when a blog site called him out on it) by accident. Life's so hectic sometimes, who can't relate?
"Addressed!"
"Next week!"
...er, games?
*Throws smoke bomb*
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SEPTEMBER 14 2022
In "that's nice, but why didn't you show this 10 months ago?" news, Dispatch guy has posted an image of multiple carts in the warehouse to show that they do, in fact, exist. With the promise of more photos tomorrow:
In "is that even really news at this point?" news, he did not share additional pics tomorrow. Which is now yesterday.
Incidentally, happy one year anniversary (to the day!) to the last time he posted an exciting picture of one of these carts in the warehouse.
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SEPTEMBER 28 2022
Maybe captain trustworthy meant tomorrow next month.
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OCTOBER 4 2022
Continuing to chart exciting new territory in gaming announcements, Dispatch confirms that the warehouse is, in fact, totally a warehouse:
Which was hectic to do, apparently. Thx for the warehouse protocol-following update tho, that had been weighing heavily on people's minds.
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April 5, 2023
...nothing. He disappeared after that post. Half a year and no updates on social media, no responses to emails, no refunds.
One might begin to get pessimistic.
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May 1, 2023
Update Gaiden: Forum member Tadaito popped in to let us know that Radirgy Swag has been delisted digitally on the eShop, also mentioning that the timing might well indicate that a 4 year publishing license for Dispatch has expired. If that is the case, hopefully someone else picks it up. And if the circumstances are the same for Game Paradise, that may also only remain available until May 2024.
Also, TRIGGER WARNING: CRUSHED SOULS
/skull emoji
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July 7, 2023
HOT NEW LORE JUST STEALTH DROPPED!!
Process, teams, working, the very solidification of time itself. Lets see how this attempt at a breakthrough in physics at the cosmic level plays out.
An attempt which, as forum member Nnnn points out, was somewhat interestingly timed:
Funny indeed!
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August 14, 2023
BUT THE FUTURE REFUSED TO CHANGE
Alas the fabric of time is stubborn, and appears to remain in slightly too wiggly a state for any word or shipment notifications from Dispatch since the last tweet. And so the promised day passed in silence. Wherever you are, Godspeed you, skyclad observer.
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August 18, 2023
Are the alpha and beta attractor fields overlapping? Is this this ideal worldline? ARE WE ABOUT TO UNLOCK THE TRUE ENDING????
DoomsDave brings us a HUGE lore update:
BIG IF TRUEDoomsDave wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 12:15 am The saga continues....
https://twitter.com/DispatchGames/statu ... 4618745097
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October 3, 2023
NOT TRUE
Nobody anywhere has received a shipment notice, let alone a product, alas.