PDF sales question

[Nathal]

How many of you opt for high-res graphics and large PDF file sizes for PDF sale products?

What about interactive content like music, or "packages" for download like a zip file which includes music and 3D maps, etc.?

Has anyone found there is a limit to the file size the typical buyer will download? I'm not sure how many people who would buy from RPGnow or other sources would actually download a file over 2 or 3 megabytes. It depends on how many have cable or DSL I'd suppose.

Any thoughts on this subject are much appreciated!

 

[Drawmack]

What I would really like to see is an adventure that uses
something where I can adtually have the players use a computer to manupilate a crime scene etc. sort of a hybrid between computer based RPGs and table top RPGs. However this is a pipe dream that will probably never come true. My honest feel on PDFs is that you should release two versions. A low processor version and a high processor version. Music I would include in a seperate file so it can be burned to cd.

 

[jmucchiello]

These are the most relavent polls on the question. You might ask James to make a "does size matter?" poll over on the RPGNow forums.

http://www.rpgnow.com/sympoll/polllist.php3?mypollid=3&vo=1
http://www.rpgnow.com/sympoll/polllist.php3?mypollid=12&vo=1

Note that most people didn't care if there was art or not. Some didn't like gratuitous artwork. And a decent percentage (out of 67) compained about large file size over all those other concerns.

 

[Stormcrow]

Personally, I do try to acquire as much gaming material on PDF as I can. I do a good deal of gaming over the internet and do a good deal of work with The Pathways, A Dragonlance based chat site. I like to have my materials close at hand so I can look things up quickly and get on with gaming. I'm going to support any company that makes PDF's available

 

[annadobritt]

Since I print out all the pdfs I buy, I don't like having fancy borders, color art and anything else that would use up more ink.

As to file size, I prefer them to be less than 10mb in size since I use a 56k modem.