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Join Date: May 2019
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Honestly, until everything is migrated over to the new download spot of the new website, I've stopped any purchases. I just refuse to reward this, it has not been a good migration over the past six months. Folks still don't have their pdfs moved over there completely months later.
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#152 | |
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Luxembourg
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The old store doesn't accept order any more ...but if you search for an item on google or another search engine and go to the book page on the old w23, you can still add it to the crate, download a preview, ... until you attempt checkout, at which point you get an unhelpful screen :
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#153 |
Ceci n'est pas une tag.
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vancouver, WA (Portland Metro)
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My default search (I even bookmarked it) on the old W23 website was "new digital-only GURPS from SJ Games."
Are the search tools being updated? Because my brief puttering around hasn't found a way to replicate that.
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#154 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
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There's a good rule of thumb I use when replacing something important: Make sure that the replacement can do everything necessary as well as what I was replacing.
Sadly, so far the new site has failed to do anything at all that I used/did on the old site better than what it's supposed to be replacing. (Admittedly I haven't tried actually purchasing anything, since there haven't been any GURPS releases for months, but that's another issue.) This has been an ongoing project for over six months since it was announced on this forum, and still hasn't managed to migrate user downloads and apparently very little of the criticism of the basic functions made since the first announcement in this thread has been considered worth addressing (ie Search results and page layout, downloads accessibility and sorting etc...) Being blunt, unless there's some additional reason behind the scenes customers don't know about that absolutely required the old site to be shut down for purchases, the new store should be scrapped or taken down until it can be brought up to the minimum standards set by the previous version. Right now the new store is a total and abject failure from the point of view of at least one customer who's been buying from SJGames since it was e23. |
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#155 |
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Sydney, Australia
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I created an account on the new store a while back during testing, so it's been linked to my old one / live for many months.
I have 63 downloads available on the old site and 46 downloads available on the new site. I understand transfers are still in progress, and that's cool. I'll check back in a few weeks. I imagine the amount of data across all account is huge! However:
I haven't even tried on a mobile device yet, with less screen real estate and a portrait orientation. I had thought there were many good things being addressed based on responses to feedback over the months, but I'm left very disappointed with the state of it at "launch", particularly given it's been in soft launch for so long and the old site is disabled except (thankfully) for downloading content we own. This needs to be significantly improved, and quickly, and with actually listening to and actioning user feedback (even if that action is to respond and explain why it won't be done, or why it will be changed in a different way - not all feedback will be right, of course).
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#156 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: 42°22'52" N. 71°15'10" W.
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I have one: it's nice (overdue, but nice) to finally have the SJG web store support HTTPS. The old site was one of the last insecure HTTP bookmarks I had left.
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#157 | |
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Luxembourg
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Given w23 code base age, the http problem and likely others behind the scene troubles, the move to a more modern solution is probably necessary. But it would be good if it was also usable. And it us not only us old fossils that complain. I ran a couple oneshot Gurps game at my new gaming place in January, one of my players wanted to buy GURPS after these, and at yesterday game he told me he tried w23 before switching to drivethru for Gurps Lite. His description of the search experience mirrored the one from various poster above. For physical books, he will likely use Amazon to avoid shipping costs, but for the PDFs, w23 should be the best choice.... |
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#158 |
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Portsmouth, VA, USA
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I've tried to log into the old site to see how many books I sold this month - something the new store doesn't seem able to do - and...it wouldn't let me in. What are authors supposed to do now?
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#159 |
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Yukon, OK
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I thought W23 stopped showing that years ago?
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#160 |
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Portsmouth, VA, USA
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No, you can still see your own stuff. Well. You could.
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