RPGNow EDGE Opens!

[Steve Conan Trustrum]

The background color for many a website has made me want to hit BACK faster than I physically could. Disagreeing with the look of a website is an extremely valid reason to stop going to the website, no matter how much you wish you could get to the content without those colors. You may be more tolerant of garish colors than most people. But I find "I don't like how it looked" an extremely valid reason for "I will never return".

Actually, it has nothing to do with my personal opinion. It's something learned after doing going-on 6 years of usability web testing for companies of various sizes and types. You're correct that garish colors can indeed lead people not to visit a site, but that's because they tend to view such choices as an indication of reduced professionalism not because it's not using their favorite color and I doubt they're spending enough time at a storefront to cause much in the way of eye stress unless they have an affliction like mine. And, as I've said, white is hardly garish and is indeed the safest background color in web design, not to mention that black (or similarly extremely dark) on white is preferred by optomitrists for on-screen viewing.

 

[Vigilance]

Our little game company was started and continues to be a company that does games that we like to play.. it is not geared toward making money. I have been attacked by some other publishers (that will remain nameless so I don't get banned on the other site) for not putting money ahead of everything... and arguing that "quality" does not just equal 'sales'. I only do games that would be fun to me as a gamer (which I have been actively since '87).

Ok- I call BS.

"I have in my hand a list of 25 RPGNow vendors who put money ahead of everything"

Sound familiar?

If you aren't willing to name a specific company name then don't say it.

And if you aren't willing to be banned from a forum for naming a specific company, then don't name them.

Cause, really, if this post is directed at me or a publisher I respect, I'd at least appreciate you having enough of a pair to say who it is out loud so I can defend myself.

You might like to be sly in "academia" but I'm from the south and I prefer to just say what I feel.

Chuck

 

[madelf]

There are publishers in the RPG industry who care about nothing but money.
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Yep, that's a good one.

 

[WilliamAndersen]

Deleted message because I do not wish to be drawn into a flame war

 

[Sledge]

So how has this change actually improved anything for anyone?

 

[Roudi]

Actually, RPGNow lost a sale from me today because items in my shopping cart on the mainsite didn't stay in the cart went I went to the Edge (and vice-versa). I had two products I wanted to buy: one on Edge, and one on the mainsite. But apparently I couldn't buy them both in one transaction. So I bought my mainsite choice.

If RPGNow can link the two sites so that items from both can be bought in one transaction, I would recommend they do so. It will be cheaper for them, as they will have less transaction processing fees to pay, compared to having people make their mainsite and Edge purchases separately. Plus, it will avoid having people like me become frustrated and simply buy less.

 

[Steve Conan Trustrum]

Actually, RPGNow lost a sale from me today because items in my shopping cart on the mainsite didn't stay in the cart went I went to the Edge (and vice-versa). I had two products I wanted to buy: one on Edge, and one on the mainsite. But apparently I couldn't buy them both in one transaction. So I bought my mainsite choice.

If RPGNow can link the two sites so that items from both can be bought in one transaction, I would recommend they do so. It will be cheaper for them, as they will have less transaction processing fees to pay, compared to having people make their mainsite and Edge purchases separately. Plus, it will avoid having people like me become frustrated and simply buy less.

My understanding is that you SHOULD be able to make Edge and RPGnow purchases in a single transaction. It's likely you ran into a bug that James would like to squash. Email him and let him know about it -- he's real good when it comes into sorting through that sort of thing very quickly.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

For my part I'm glad that the two sites are really just frontends on the same backend.

90% of my RPGNow purchases are made because of ENWorld. Somebody mentions something I'd like, I hit RPGNow and search for it, put it in the ole' cart, and hit BUY. The other 10% are when that product doesn't cost enough to hit the peak and I browse around a little wondering if there's anything else out there that I'd like that goes with it.

Which actually leads me to a few interesting products.

I'd find it pretty suck if I went to RPGNow and searched and didn't turn up a hit because the product had moved to Edge.

--fje

 

[jaerdaph]

I didn't experience this problem with the two orders I placed at RPGNow/The Edge this week.

Edit: But I usually click "buy" from off the wish list.

 

[Roudi]

My understanding is that you SHOULD be able to make Edge and RPGnow purchases in a single transaction. It's likely you ran into a bug that James would like to squash. Email him and let him know about it -- he's real good when it comes into sorting through that sort of thing very quickly.

Aye, I assumed it was meant to work like that. Message sent.