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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9434722" data-attributes="member: 725">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.Are they also able to do that on services like Humble Bundle itself, Bundle of Holding, or DriveThruRPG, etc? Or is this just something Alchemy f-ed up in their contracting with FL (and other companies)?I see this as much of a problem by Free League as of Alchemy, if FL can do this on the Alchemy platform, other companies can do so as well. So I'll certainly not advise anyone that finds such a feature important to use Alchemy in the future...I think that this is a knee jerk reaction from Free League that didn't realize that giving away 50 Alchemy licenses also meant giving away 50 pdfs of most of their core products at $30/€28 in a Humble Bundle. And instead of eating that mistake, they are now putting the issue at the feet of their (potential) customer base.This being the problematic Humble Bundle:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.humblebundle.com/software/free-league-immersive-rpg-bundle-for-alchemy-vtt-software[/URL]For me that was a way to look at Alchemy as a VTT with 3rd party products and at the FL products as an RPG. My preferred VTT is still Foundry VTT, but it's always useful to look at the competition and what they are doing well (or wrong). For me these products were stepping stones for potential future purchases of FL FVTT modules.For me this is again a reason that reinforces that things like Roll20, DDB, the new D&D VTT, ALCHEMY, etc. are a bad 'investment' from a roleplayer's perspective that keeps on playing for decades. I still own my pnp RPG purchases from 35+ years ago. With Foundry VTT I downloaded and archived all the (linux/nodejs) stable releases and am starting to backup my (premium) modules and rules sets. So even IF Foundry ever goes down or some company pulls their digital product I purchased, I still have a backup of that product I can deploy on whatever version of FVTT it requires (in my case on a self hosted Raspberry Pi).These Free League and Alchemy shenanigans are bad press for all products as a service companies in the pnp RPG space.Sidenote: I've also started backing up all my Humble Bundle, Bundle of Holding and DriveThruRPG purchases. I would advise everyone start doing that, especially if you have FL products anywhere.</blockquote>

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