$100 PDF!! Are they nuts!!??

[Mark CMG]

What would be wrong with people buying a product that they want and GoO who had a tough last year, making extra money?

Yeah? What would be wrong with someone else paying for something a price they know up front and getting what they paid for?

 

[Vocenoctum]

All:

Please take the time and read through all the posts before getting upset abount a virtual price!

I think reading a whole thread before posting is against the rules of the forum.

But, really, the deluxe edition is both the OGL and Tristat version, compared to the OGL only version for $25. I imagine at some point the Tristat version will also show up for a decent price.

 

[clarkvalentine]

Nobody. And nobody's intended to.

I forget specifically who it was, but a spokesman for GoO has gone on public record--over on RPG.net, I believe--stating that they're basically suing DriveThrue as a means of "hosting" the PDF that they're offering (free? discounted? not sure) to those who have already purchased the hardcover.

Yup. Mark MacKinnon posted on RPGnet about this.

The hard copy has been delayed several times, and this free download is a perk for those who preordered the book. They sent emails to everyone who preordered it with a purchase code for DriveThruRPG to discount the download to free.

As Mark said in his RPGnet post: "Do we expect anyone to buy this? No, we're not stupid. And neither are you, so don't pay $100 for a PDF."

Congrats, BTW, to Mark and Jesse et. al. for a fantastically beautiful book.

 

[Yair]

It could be selling. What would be wrong with people buying a product that they want and GoO who had a tough last year, making extra money?

Hey, go GoO if that's the case. I'm not against anyone making money fairly.
But in that case, I think I won't be alone in being surprised the pdf is selling at such a high price - as the quote from rpg.net shows, even GoO didn't expect it to sell...
My bet is, it's either a few sales and the Hootest items list is by MONEY sold and not units, or it's free downloads and the system counts the sale even if it's a free download transaction. (Just becouse it will be so cool for GoO, I hope it's the former, actually.)

 

[Berandor]

Just FYI, the "free downloads" work with gift certificates, so you buy the GoT special edition for 100$ and use a gift certificate to pay for it.

I'm fairly sure the system counts these as actual purchases.

 

[Agamon]

Sooo...when's the hardcover Standard Edition come out? $100 is a bit steep, even for the finely crafted book you get. But I'm not interested in the Tri-Stat version, and I'd rather get the cheaper version with only the necessary crunch.

 

[Crothian]

Sooo...when's the hardcover Standard Edition come out? $100 is a bit steep, even for the finely crafted book you get. But I'm not interested in the Tri-Stat version, and I'd rather get the cheaper version with only the necessary crunch.

October novmeber I believe

 

[Enforcer]

I don't get why people are still upset about the $99.99 price tag... By now, if you've bother to read the thread, you should understand that the PDF is for people (like me) who preordered the deluxe hardcover edition. We all got a coupon that makes the price of the PDF $0 so we could have the book in PDF format before our physical copies arrive. The high price is meant to keep people who DIDN'T preorder the deluxe copy from getting the PDF.

Continuing to overreact to the pricetag, now knowing the circumstances behind it, is ridiculous. Give it a rest.

By the way, the book is awesome.

 

[Agamon]

I don't get why people are still upset about the $99.99 price tag... By now, if you've bother to read the thread, you should understand that the PDF is for people (like me) who preordered the deluxe hardcover edition. We all got a coupon that makes the price of the PDF $0 so we could have the book in PDF format before our physical copies arrive. The high price is meant to keep people who DIDN'T preorder the deluxe copy from getting the PDF.

I wish more companies did this. Not charge $100 for their pdfs, but give free copies of their pdfs with the sale of a hard copy.

 

[coyote6]

I wish more companies did this. Not charge $100 for their pdfs, but give free copies of their pdfs with the sale of a hard copy.

Me, too. I'd even pay a few bucks extra (not more than $4-5).