Free League forcing Alchemy VTT to remove PDFs - Anti-consumer behaviour?

[Nikosandros]

And we didn't get all of them back - I still haven't gotten my OG Gangbusters back.

The Mythus books (Dangerous Journeys by Gygax) are also still not available.

 

[gban007]

Well, it's a charity bundle. I mean unless you want to force the charity to cough up more money, I'm not sure what can be done.
(I had a friend who is pretty well off financially write to Humble Bundle and demand a refund when he realized this was for a VTT he doesn't use. I thought it was pretty lousy of him to ask for money back from a charity.

Default breakdown of money only gives about 5% to charity, of the rest it is close to 50/50 between humble and Alchemy. I'm suggesting it is Alchemy who should be making it right out of the money they are getting, or FL from the money they are getting from Alchemy.

 

[Cergorach]

Well, it's a charity bundle. I mean unless you want to force the charity to cough up more money, I'm not sure what can be done.
(I had a friend who is pretty well off financially write to Humble Bundle and demand a refund when he realized this was for a VTT he doesn't use. I thought it was pretty lousy of him to ask for money back from a charity.)

That's just a whole lot of marketing, by default divider is:

Default Donation (€27.65):

• €13.82 to Alchemy RPG
• €1.39 to Direct Relief
• €12.44 to Humble

So most of the money go to Alchemy (and I suspect to FL via license fees) and Humble (Bundle) itself. It might act like a charity donation, but that's only ~5%... This is NOT a donation, this is a purchase.

 

[Nikosandros]

Has anyone who bought the bundle tried to reach Fria Ligan?

 

[Panzeh]

I imagine FL didn't quite understand what they were getting into with the contract with Alchemy and decided to discontinue the license after that. The Fantasy Grounds modules for Traveller contain full PDFs, too, but they never get discounted all that much probably because there's some restrictions on that.

 

[mamba]

Many folks just bought that Humble Bundle with Free League stuff just for the PDFs. I find it interesting that they can remove things you already 'own' without your consent.

I did not realize this includes PDFs, do not use Alchemy, that alone would make it a worthwhile bundle.

Not sure how FL has the right to remove something I bought either, they should just eat the cost, doing this might make things worse

 

[jhallum]

I admittedly bought the bundle for the PDFs, I used it to fill in gaps I had in certain games (I don't have the two newest Vaesen books, and didn't have PDFs for my Twilight 2k and Mork Borg books that I had gotten from a non Bits and Mortar FLGS. I do plan on buying hardcovers for the two newest vaesen books, and if I like other games, I'll buy the hardcovers as well. I hope Fria Ligan realizes that there are people like us who are using this as an opportunity to try some other new games that we will buy if we like the PDFs. I imagine it must have been a surprise to realize this was a really cheap way for people to get pdfs.

 

[Count_Zero]

That's just a whole lot of marketing, by default divider is:

Default Donation (€27.65):

• €13.82 to Alchemy RPG
• €1.39 to Direct Relief
• €12.44 to Humble

So most of the money go to Alchemy (and I suspect to FL via license fees) and Humble (Bundle) itself. It might act like a charity donation, but that's only ~5%... This is NOT a donation, this is a purchase.

You can change the sliders to adjust who gets what proportion of the money.

 

[Cergorach]

You can change the sliders to adjust who gets what proportion of the money.

You can, you can also donate directly. How many people do you think know of that and of that know actually do that every time?

Edit: I did some math, and the people that adjust the pledge in favor of the charity, it's probably less then 20% of the people. Also keep in mind that Humble will always get ~30%, you can't set it to lower then that.

 

[ReshiIRE]

You can, you can also donate directly. How many people do you think know of that and of that know actually do that every time?

Edit: I did some math, and the people that adjust the pledge in favor of the charity, it's probably less then 20% of the people. Also keep in mind that Humble will always get ~30%, you can't set it to lower then that.

You used to be able to set the Humble percentage to zero and give all to charity, but they removed that a while ago. At-least you can set the publisher amount to zero still.