Cloud Kingdom Update

Matt Mayfield writes:

Mr. Barf,

My name is Matt Mayfield and as president of Cloud Kingdom Games and as a loyal viewer of STV, I’m one of your biggest fans, at least among humans.

On STV recently I noticed you mentioned the pending shutdown of Cloud Kingdom and how you mentioned “checking your K-1s”. While I understand the sentiment, it’s not just people with K-1s who have a chance to purchase a piece of history, an aspect of our common gaming experience, a little immortality that cannot be measured in human terms,  that is fading fast even as we speak. Everyone, anyone, even people named Blake, Doug or Tim (as an example), or their spouses, friends, enemies, casual acquaintances and so forth who have a chance to bid on things at what are admittedly ridiculously low prices. The auction is open to ANYONE with US dollars (sorry, Barfbucks are not accepted) who might want to buy inventory (games, books, supplies and so on), as well as the rights to publish on their own our games and books. Perhaps some of your viewers want to get into the exciting arena of publishing, getting the rights to actually be the “owner” of classic RPG books and games from Cloud Kingdom, able to republish them or to try to sell them to some huge company for millions of dollars (note the use of “try to sell”). Or perhaps they just want lots of games they can sell on eBay, Craigslist or to their local comic store that they visit a couple of times a week.

The auction is quite different from something like eBay in that there’s no real pressure; no waiting until 00:00:01 before the auction ends to place a bid. Our intention is simply to transfer as much of our games and publishing rights as possible to people who REALLY want them in return for – well, as much money as we can get. Any time there’s a bid on one of the auction lots we take a three or four day break before the next round – it’s something even Katarina Drum would have time for. Current bids are mostly in the $10 range – that’s TEN US dollars – for most of the things on the auction list.

I would appreciate if you could let your viewers know this and that just by contacting me they will gain a huge advantage. As of this time, there have been – um, let me count – zero people who have contacted me about the auction, meaning that the possibilities of seriously scooping are immense. Even people who got their K-1s (some of whom had invoices in there which they haven’t yet bothered to pay) need to contact me to get put into the approved list for the auction group.

Everyone should also be aware that I’m opening bidding to people outside the “Cloud Kingdom Group”, meaning that if they don’t get their – appendages in motion, they are likely to not be getting the things they are sure they are going to get.

There is no obligation of any form what-so-ever with getting hooked up with the Cloud Kingdom shutdown auction, so I would encourage anyone who wants to get a piece of history (or the future, or possible futures or possible historic futures) to contact me about the auction or with any questions they have.  There is absolutely nothing to lose – it won’t cost you anything to get the information on the auction – so there’s no reason not to.

Oh, bidding on things in the auction doesn’t require the use of a joystick.

Thanks, love the show, miss the polkas,

Matt Mayfield

President, Cloud Kingdom Games, Inc

Want good game stuff cheap? Email Matt. More polka! Matt. Cloudkingdom.com

Wow, that's quite a mouthful. Maybe we need to expand the Fame-Martin Limiter to be a Fame-Martin-Mayfield Limiter! Anyway I hear that Evalina Gump is planning to try to scoop up the rights to Thieves' Island, so everyone should get their act together! Fortunately I don't have to worry since I had my monkey take care of all the details for me weeks ago.