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7 months ago ::
Oct 28, 2012 - 6:48AM
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Personally I would gladly buy digital back-copies of things. It would be great if I could get print-on-demand too.
Though I would want assurances that I won't suffer the same misfortunes as the last time they offered digital product - They decided to stop selling digital product, and decided to remove access to the digital product that had already been purchased.
As a sidenote: It would go a long way to create goodwill if they granted access to the digital product again for the people who already paid for it on Drive through RPG before they cut off digital sales and removed access. I believe I still have the receipts in my GMAIL.
Ouch! If you paid for something, you ought to have access to it. Paper book or electronic format, it doesn't matter. That's the basic rule.
I'd definitely want assurances that such a situation would not happen in the future.
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5 months ago ::
Dec 19, 2012 - 8:34PM
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I prefer Gabe Newell version:
"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,"
"If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable." "Prior to entering the Russian market, we were told that Russia was a waste of time because everyone would pirate our products. Russia is now about to become [Steam's] largest market in Europe,"
If they are releasing D&D PDF books around the world, we need them translated to diferent lengages too. And be easy for people all over the world to buy them and download them.
I would prefer for new books to be released thought, i am getting tired of this re-print of older editions filling wotc's release schedule, making a waste of time and effort for nothing and the only upcoming new book most likely having to crunch at all (the menzoberranzan book). Nothing new was announced for the edition that is suppose to be suported for the next 2 years...
I'm not sure translating old books into different languages is financially viable. D&D is primarily popular in English speaking countries, so the reward wouldn't be worth the effort.
That said the original point is absolutely right, although there is a price issue too. Some people literally have no money to put towards hobbies, so file sharing is the only way to go for them. For everyone else though, it's a matter of convenience. If you have an online store you can buy the books for at a reasonable price, almost nobody who can afford to pay for them will actually go to the effort of pirating.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 1:57PM
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Online only DDI material is useless to me. Not everyone lives in a constant wifi signal.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 17, 2013 - 5:07PM
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Apparently WotC is in the process of setting up a DrivethruRPG store to sell PDFs once again.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 18, 2013 - 6:13AM
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Which is a very welcome development. There are suggestions that these are new PDFs rather than the old scans. I'm really looking forward to these.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 19, 2013 - 1:41PM
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Where was this announced? I am unable to find the information about re-issuing of the PDFs.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 19, 2013 - 3:12PM
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They mentioned it at the Gen Con keynote, but beyond that WotC has been rather quiet about this, from what I have seen.
I prefer 2nd Edition AD&D. But I have played basic, 1E, 2E, 3.5, & 4E, and found all to be fun.
IF IT'S D&D, I'LL PLAY IT, NO MATTER THE EDITION.
Just roll some dice.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 21, 2013 - 11:29AM
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This post may not last long. On January 17, EN World reported on a DiceMonkey blog post that stated Wizards was back on RPGNow, but the blog post has since been removed. Proof's in the pudding, though: www.rpgnow.com/product/17081/Basic-B1---...Check out the dates on the right hand side. Found the link through Google.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 21, 2013 - 12:55PM
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Online only DDI material is useless to me. Not everyone lives in a constant wifi signal.
Heretic!
To be fair: online only content has been extremely useful to me (thanks to my printer), even though I never use a computer at the gaming table (I find it distracting). I believe that's how much of that material is intended to be used.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 3:32AM
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The site is now live! www.dndclassics.comSo far the list of titles is quite limited (even some of the 4th edition books previously available aren't there) but I assume the catalogue will be growing over the next few weeks and months. Although I previously purchased The Temple of Elemental Evil and the file is showing as having been updated I am unable to re-download it, which is a shame - the new version is twice the size of the old one. I've downloaded a couople of titles and whilst B1 In Search of the Unknown (free this week) looks nice and crisp the Greyhawk Players Guide (2e) looks to be the same quality of the previously available scanned PDFs. I'm looking forward to more 2nd edition and Dragonlance products being added.
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