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<blockquote data-quote="EugeneZ" data-source="post: 5324916" data-attributes="member: 83605">So I got an e-mail a few days ago telling me my DDI subscription would expire in a month or so, and there was a link I was supposed to click after it expired in order to renew it. I thought that was kind of a weird way of renewal, and figured I'd try to renew now. I click the link and am taken to the digitalriver site, the site that does the merchant processing for WotC online transactions. There are five options on this page (see screenshot #1), three normal subscription options, one weird subscription option that says this isn't the right place and I'm going to be redirected in ten seconds, and a... broken image with something about PDF written next to it.Before I can figure out what that last one is all about, I get redirected. So I go back to the link, wait until the redirect fires, and click the Stop button in my browser. I'm looking at a purchasable item called &quot;Test PDF&quot; with description &quot;Dungeons and Dragons Series XXXXXXXXXXXXXX eBook&quot;.Anyone ever see this before?Of course I had to click &quot;Buy Now.&quot; Second screenshot show purchase confirmation. It then allowed me to download a file called FakePlayersHandbook.pdf, which contained a very low-resolution image of the PHB cover and nothing else.Just thought I'd share, incase this was a recent test by WotC of their newfangled PDF system or whatever. If it is, it's a bit insulting, because it implies their pulling out of PDFs in the first place wasn't related to piracy (which we've all seen, their move to not produce PDFs hasn't helped) but to competition from vendors that sold their books.If this is old news or isn't indicative of anything interesting, I apologise. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel&nbsp; &nbsp; :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="EugeneZ, post: 5324916, member: 83605"] So I got an e-mail a few days ago telling me my DDI subscription would expire in a month or so, and there was a link I was supposed to click after it expired in order to renew it. I thought that was kind of a weird way of renewal, and figured I'd try to renew now. I click the link and am taken to the digitalriver site, the site that does the merchant processing for WotC online transactions. There are five options on this page (see screenshot #1), three normal subscription options, one weird subscription option that says this isn't the right place and I'm going to be redirected in ten seconds, and a... broken image with something about PDF written next to it. Before I can figure out what that last one is all about, I get redirected. So I go back to the link, wait until the redirect fires, and click the Stop button in my browser. I'm looking at a purchasable item called "Test PDF" with description "Dungeons and Dragons Series XXXXXXXXXXXXXX eBook". Anyone ever see this before? Of course I had to click "Buy Now." Second screenshot show purchase confirmation. It then allowed me to download a file called FakePlayersHandbook.pdf, which contained a very low-resolution image of the PHB cover and nothing else. Just thought I'd share, incase this was a recent test by WotC of their newfangled PDF system or whatever. If it is, it's a bit insulting, because it implies their pulling out of PDFs in the first place wasn't related to piracy (which we've all seen, their move to not produce PDFs hasn't helped) but to competition from vendors that sold their books. If this is old news or isn't indicative of anything interesting, I apologise. :angel: [/QUOTE]

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