Downloads vs Purchases

[simonjrogers]

With the huge response from the rpgnow.com Haitian appeal, I was intrigued to know what proportion of the people had downloaded products in the bundle. We included, from Encompass, the Tendrill's Oak - a set of maps of an Inn at miniature and non-miniature scale with documentation - and The Trail of Cthulhu PLayer's Guide from Pelgrane

Comments

[drivingblind]

Not super shocked about the not-download thing. I bought the bundle but the pain in the butt of downloading each thing individually instead of one-click-gets-all has kept me from getting in there and grabbing all of the bounty. I'll get to it... eventually. :)

[matt_m_mcelroy]

Same here. I've got the links stored on My Account page on DTRPG, so I can take my time downloading the stuff I want when I get the extra time to read/review it.

There are also a handful of items I've already got included in the bundle so I'm not going to bother downloading those titles again.

[ext_50567]

Yup, pretty much my situation too: I already had some of the stuff I'd have liked most (Beast Hunters, 3:16, SotS and others), plus the servers were slow and it took time.

I decided to download the stuff in small batches. It'll take some time.

[simonjrogers]

I wasn't surprised by that so much as the fact that the 10% of people who bought non-bundle products hadn't downloaded them.

[heliograph]

My theory is that those sales are people who already had the files, but liked them enough to pay for them.

Alternatively, they are people who tried to download the files and couldn't because the servers were hosed, and they haven't tried again.