Apology

A formal apology to Jye Nicholson.

We, the staff of EON press, would like to make it formally known that we apologise to Jye Nicholson, his friends and family, and anyone that was affected by what we now realise and understand was a particularly cruel and unkind prank, that we are apologise profusely and completely.

When we first described our upcoming game Weapons of the Gods, it was meant solely as sarcastic response to an internet forum post. The prank was continued for a short time when the author of the original post (not Jye) mistook the sarcasm for authenticity and began a considerably long flame war.

We did not forsee that so many of the other forum members would also miss the tone of the article and leap to our defense. In a moment of whimsy, we decided to continue the deception much longer than we now recognise good taste would allow.

We realised the extent of our mistake when Jye began submitting material in response to the alleged writers guidelines that had been written and published. It was at this point that we realised that things had got out of hand, but we honestly did not know how to end things with good grace. We tried putting off the publishing date several times with invented crises, hoping that interest would wane, but to our dismay, the purported writers for the game remained loyal.

It was only when Jye created and ran a scenario for the non-existent game that we realised that this had to stop. We would like to apologise again for our poor judgement and for the hours of work that Jye and his friends have invested in Weapons of the Gods, and hope that he can see it in his heart to forgive us.

The Staff of EON press