Merry Christmas everyone!
Publication is a tricky business, I’ve learned. Due to complications that are nobody’s fault (sounds like a cliche, now I realize why it is one,) I have to rethink how I’m going to release the book. This could be a positive thing, and I’m looking forward to having your help in this.
To be perfectly blunt, I’m ambivalent about trying to make money off of this by this point. At first I thought it could be a great source of revenue if it got good reviews and a percent of the gaming community embraced it, but by now I just care about doing justice to the material for whoever is interested, and I hope word spreads about its quality. This book is unlike anything else available, and the level of analysis here is beyond anything on my site because I did a lot of homework this time, whereas I normally don’t worry about getting all the details straight. It helped a lot to sort everything out, culminating in a study of Kojima and his work that I don’t think can be matched anywhere.
The book is the apex of my Metal Gear obsession. I now realize I’m not going to get rich from it or anything, and even if it spread beyond readers of the site, it’s not like I’m going to quit my dayjob if I made enough to buy food for a week or two. Your interest, appreciation, and feedback has always been more important to me than money, which is why I’ve never advertised on this site, taken up offers to join weird conglomerate sites that offered to monetize me work, or resorted to clickbait controversy and comments sections to drive up viewership. The book is similarly restrained and focused on just discussing what I find most interesting: being a “guide” to the crazy MGS series and Kojima’s mentality through the years.
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