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Join Date: Oct 2007
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We got them first - isn't that worth paying extra for?
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#92 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Post-marital intercourse? Or is there a reason "bugger" isn't included in the profanity filter?
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#93 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Dobbstown Sane Asylum
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Pomphis pretty much nailed this one -- doing that would be a small slap to everyone who bought the ebooks as soon as they came out. I'm not going to say 'never', but I'd be somewhat surprised. I think the books will prove their value equally well whether you buy them now or later, and whether you buy them singly or all together.
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#94 |
Join Date: Feb 2008
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I'd invest in a "subscription" of some kind for a discount on new releases.
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Honestly I'd think they'd do such a promo just for SJ Games PDFs periodically. Maybe during slow periods. Possibly during holiday. Maybe for a given line like DF or Transhuman Space (TS). For instance, I don't have time at the moment for a TS game, but if in the future I could buy 10 TS PDFs for a 10% price reduction I'd be far more likely to actually buy 10 of them rather than say 3-5 of them (which I'll probably do with the TS Personnel Files series).
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Here on the perimeter, there are no stars
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Göttingen, Germany
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well, I don't know how flexible the e23-system is, but theoretically it would be easy to allow discounts even retroactively for the people who already bought the pdf's: this could happen in the way that further volumes would be somewhat cheaper if specific account x already bought volumes 1+2+3+4, .... also discount-bundles for products that have been on the market for a longer time are not uncommon... ;) Last edited by OldSam; 08-24-2009 at 05:09 AM. |
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#98 |
Join Date: Feb 2007
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In the print world, books tend to cost less as they get older. I wouldn't feel slapped in the face if this happened in the world of pdfs too.
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Montréal, Québec
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— Old stock depreciates, unless it's limited, fine, and improves with age, like some wine. That's just a rule of doing business. Customers who think that future customers should pay what they paid are being unrealistic. Being first in the queue is a privilege. For movies and books, this means being hip, up-to-date, and enjoying the fiction spoiler-free. For game supplements, this means having the latest rules and stats, and being able to point to a published supplement when somebody doesn't believe that your new, cool ability is "legal." So it goes. That doesn't stop people from being silly, of course. Shoot, I knew a guy who seriously believed than his decade-old computer ought to be replaced at its purchase value by insurance. His insurance company felt that its functionality ought to be replaced. The law sided with the insurance company, and secretly, so did I. You want state of the art, you buy new. You want cheap, you wait. It's really simple.
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#100 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Platform Zero, Sydney, Australia
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I will second interest in some manner of subscription. Obviously new DF PDFs (heh) come out less often than Pyramid, but I've certainly picked up every new one as its come out.
The setup for such a thing seems trickier though (because of the previously mentioned irregularity). Perhaps easier would be the ability to say "Yes, I want to hear the very instant the next one becomes available". |
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