Comments | simonjrogers: Downloads vs Purchases

simonjrogers

Downloads vs Purchases

Feb 01, 2010 23:02

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 ( Read more... )

i'll show you mine, it's all for chariddy, pelgrane

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drivingblind February 1 2010, 23:23:16 UTC

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 February 1 2010, 23:35:44 UTC

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 February 2 2010, 00:02:14 UTC

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 February 2 2010, 16:55:33 UTC

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.

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sanastar February 2 2010, 05:40:07 UTC

Since they now added all the products from the Haiti bundle to the account pages of the purchasers (they dropped the coupon nightmare at some time), people can download and check out the PDFs at their own time. There's no hurry. I have started delving through this enormous list, downloaded a few books, printed them and started reading, but I am still far from having downloaded all of them.

By the way, is there any content in the Trail Player's Guide that's not included in the Trail of Cthulhu Rulebook?

reverancepavane February 2 2010, 05:58:05 UTC

I do know that some people just donated for the sake of donating (and increasing the total raised), without the intent of downloading anything (mostly because they already had all that they wanted already).
[I started downloading when I got the email to do so, but I cheated and wrote a script to negotiate the download for me. It finished four days later (but was very server friendly, so it would wait about 15 minutes if it failed to get an appropriate response from the OBS server). Given the number of times it had to renegotiate the login it probably would have been very tedious doing it manually.]

gbsteve February 2 2010, 10:01:11 UTC

I've now downloaded all of the Haiti bundle although I'm pretty sure I won't use most of it. It took about 3 days. But I thought the 10% applied to paid for products outside the bundle, I've always downloaded those immediately.

quba February 2 2010, 17:20:57 UTC

Well, I haven't even gotten my bundle yet, so I'm one of the 90%. That said, give it some time. The gaming world just got hundreds of games dropped on their lap - it's gonna take some time to go through them all.

I think they just should have had a torrent. If you purchase the bundle, it gives you a link to the .torrent, and you go from there. Honesty would keep it off the torrent sites, as it has already.