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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 6649936" data-attributes="member: 18182">Why should WotC and One Book Shelf (the company behind dndclassics.com) prioritize some minor free product from a few years ago? Is there a clamor for those prior Free RPG Day releases from WotC?Yes, the site's been around for a few years and there are many products not yet uploaded to it, free or otherwise. But again, the D&amp;D back catalog is HUGE, it's gonna take some time. Could they speed up the process? Upload 10 or more products weekly rather than a handful? Sure, they COULD, but I imagine there's probably like one dude who's job it is to make that happen. Plus, it's a license deal, which means in addition to any production work to create or clean up the PDF files, the two companies need to coordinate and get &quot;approvals&quot;. All of that is work and takes time. I'm sure you are correct to a degree, if they can stretch out new uploads as long as possible without totally frustrating their audience, then they have folks visiting the site more often for a longer period of time and probably buying new product. Once the catalog is &quot;complete&quot;, website views will drop as will impulse sales. And, until the back catalog on dndclassics.com is complete, there will always be the &quot;problem&quot; of that one sourcebook you so desperately need but isn't on the site yet!Would it be cool if they managed to complete the back catalog all at once rather than dribble it out? Sure. But that would probably be a stupid business decision to make on their part.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 6649936, member: 18182"] Why should WotC and One Book Shelf (the company behind dndclassics.com) prioritize some minor free product from a few years ago? Is there a clamor for those prior Free RPG Day releases from WotC? Yes, the site's been around for a few years and there are many products not yet uploaded to it, free or otherwise. But again, the D&D back catalog is HUGE, it's gonna take some time. Could they speed up the process? Upload 10 or more products weekly rather than a handful? Sure, they COULD, but I imagine there's probably like one dude who's job it is to make that happen. Plus, it's a license deal, which means in addition to any production work to create or clean up the PDF files, the two companies need to coordinate and get "approvals". All of that is work and takes time. I'm sure you are correct to a degree, if they can stretch out new uploads as long as possible without totally frustrating their audience, then they have folks visiting the site more often for a longer period of time and probably buying new product. Once the catalog is "complete", website views will drop as will impulse sales. And, until the back catalog on dndclassics.com is complete, there will always be the "problem" of that one sourcebook you so desperately need but isn't on the site yet! Would it be cool if they managed to complete the back catalog all at once rather than dribble it out? Sure. But that would probably be a stupid business decision to make on their part. [/QUOTE]

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