A Big Thanks to James & RPGnow

[Dana_Jorgensen]

As many of us know, earlier in the year, White Wolf approached RPGnow in an attempt at a buyout before moving ahead with drivethruRPG.

I wish to take a moment to publicly thank James for not accepting their offers and keeping RPGnow a retailer independent of any publisher control.

So all you remaining RPGnow vendors think for a moment. DTRPG only has the staff and capabilities to support a mere 16 vendors. Where would most of us smaller vendors be now if James had sold out? I suspect there would be a good chance that many of us would be here complaining about losing venue to sell through, rather than being indignant over DTRPG's poorly veiled insults and questionable choice to use digital rights management.

That said, let's hope we can keep RPGnow the "king of the heap" in the RPG PDF market.

 

[Krieg]

FWIW I went ahead & purchased about $50 worth of .pdfs from RPGNow that I've been sitting on the fence about. I did this specifically due to a desire to vote with my dollar.

RPGNow will be getting increased business from me in the future, DTRPG will not...ever.

 

[Razuur]

I am a proud RPGnow customer, and intend on continuing to give them my PDF business.

I have bout a couple of hundred dollars worth over the last couple of years, and every month try to pick something up from there.

RPGNow is my exclusive PDF publisher.

Razuur

 

[Treebore]

As long as RPGNow doesn't try to tell me when, how, and where to use MY pdf products they are my source as well. Drivethru can keep on driving thru.

 

[Flyspeck23]

So all you remaining RPGnow vendors think for a moment. DTRPG only has the staff and capabilities to support a mere 16 vendors. Where would most of us smaller vendors be now if James had sold out? I suspect there would be a good chance that many of us would be here complaining about losing venue to sell through, rather than being indignant over DTRPG's poorly veiled insults and questionable choice to use digital rights management.

RPG Now definetly is the first and most professional gaming e-Book site. Judging by my previous releases, I'm pretty much an expert on anything complete ( ), and DriveThru sure as hell isn't "completely professional". The vendors there might well be, but the site and its policy isn't.

Worst of all, some publisher just can't keep this "first completely professional" assumption out of their system

My respect for RPGNow.com knows no limit
Both as a publisher and a customer.

 

[DSC-EricPrice]

Ive bought a number of PDFs from James over the last couple of years and encourage others to continue to do so. Hes friendly, part of the community, and attentive. He offers a lot in one place, and I for one see no reason to stop going to his site.

 

[Grazzt]

So all you remaining RPGnow vendors think for a moment. DTRPG only has the staff and capabilities to support a mere 16 vendors.

Acquiring an existing company (who already has staff, servers, etc. in place) and starting from scratch (building from the ground up) are different things. If there is in fact truth to the story about WW attempting to acquire RPGNow, I am sure they would have a lot more vendors on board than they do at the moment.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

AHA! Now it all becomes obvious! Drive Thru is nothing but a clever ploy by RPGNow to attract more customers!

(In case someone can't guess, I am joking. Though I did end up making another purchase at RPGNow...)

The Auld Grump, plus it was on sale... because of this silliness.

 

[Beale Knight]

I wish to take a moment to publicly thank James for not accepting their offers and keeping RPGnow a retailer independent of any publisher control.

So all you remaining RPGnow vendors think for a moment. DTRPG only has the staff and capabilities to support a mere 16 vendors. Where would most of us smaller vendors be now if James had sold out? I suspect there would be a good chance that many of us would be here complaining about losing venue to sell through, rather than being indignant over DTRPG's poorly veiled insults and questionable choice to use digital rights management.

That said, let's hope we can keep RPGnow the "king of the heap" in the RPG PDF market.

I'll echo these sentiments. I'm about as small as a vendor can get, but I'm dead serious in the product I release and appreciate beyond words that there's an outlet for it.

 

[PJ-Mason]

AHA! Now it all becomes obvious! Drive Thru is nothing but a clever ploy by RPGNow to attract more customers!

Well, intended or not, it is working. Their sales are up and i am a new RPGNOW customer. Can you rpgnow guys forgive me for waiting so long to come aboard?