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Post by Probie Tim on Jan 26, 2016 9:07:35 GMT -8
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Post by mook on Jan 26, 2016 12:19:17 GMT -8
That is cool, but I'm not rolling the dice again-- I'll never trust buying any D&D PDFs again. Way, waaaaay back I bought a bunch of old TSR on DriveThru... DM Design Kit Volo's Guide to Waterdeep* Player's Guide to the Forgotten Realms Waterdeep and the North* Forgotten Realms Revised Campaign Setting Dungeon Geomorphs D&D Basic Rulebook Greyhawk (Supplement I) Blackmoor (Supplement II) Eldritch Wizardy (Supplement III) Gods, Demi-gods, and Heroes (Supplement IV) Swords & Spells (Supplement V) Six months later I lost 'em in a hard drive crash, went back to DriveThru and... the only products I could download were Volo's Guide and Waterdeep and the North*. DriveThru was no help because (and I get it) it wasn't a problem on their end... WotC simply changed their mind, and the bulk of the products they had been selling PDFs of were suddenly yanked, unilaterally. About 60 bucks worth of stuff, so not exactly the end of the world, but yeah-- I'm glad they've appeared to change their mind yet again, but I no longer take chances with the vagaries of WotC. Yes, I'm still bitter. * Literally every single other product from every single other publisher I was able to replace with a simple one-click download.
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Post by Probie Tim on Jan 26, 2016 12:37:15 GMT -8
Yeah, that's because WotC went through their "NO! WE'RE NOT SELLING DIGITAL COPIES OF ANYTHING!" phase. I lost a few PDFs as well, one of which I sorely miss ("Sages & Specialists"). Personally, I don't think it'll be a problem now. I think they learned their lesson, heh. ...that said, I do keep a copy of my PDFs on a synced cloud account (two, actually... Box for long-term storage, OneDrive for temporary, "I'm using this now" storage) and I burn them off to CDs after purchase. Just in case.
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Post by mook on Jan 26, 2016 13:39:41 GMT -8
Nice! Can never have too many backups.
If I'd had Dropbox a year or two earlier, it might've helped. Damn you, linear time.
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mrmanowar
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Post by mrmanowar on Feb 1, 2016 20:13:12 GMT -8
This info is good to know! I do have hard copies of the original stuff. To the other stuff, I back up my pdf's from the cloud to a USB drive to carry from place to place. Having the originals in various printings is nice to see the metamorphosis the game went through due to updated art, copyrighted issues, etc. to its final form. As to Mook's point on the Dungeon Geomorphs, I only own one of those (Caves I think), and I am curious to see what the others looked like.
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Post by ilina on Feb 19, 2016 2:47:16 GMT -8
you can always store backup copies of the important books on your google drive.
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Post by shadrack on Feb 19, 2016 11:18:16 GMT -8
Have you checked back since WotC has returned to drivethru ?
I heard someone say their DnD purchases had returned.
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Post by mook on Feb 20, 2016 0:14:02 GMT -8
Have you checked back since WotC has returned to drivethru? I heard someone say their DnD purchases had returned. Only the Volo's Guide and Waterdeep, none of the rest. For me, it's less about the actual products (which were whim purchases anyway, and only for nostalgia... anything non-GURPS isn't for table use, just entertainment reading) and more about the disrespect it shows towards their customers. I've moved on, it's mostly a non-issue. Just not something I would do again.
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Post by mook on Feb 20, 2016 0:16:38 GMT -8
you can always store backup copies of the important books on your google drive. Now, I have gigs upon gigs of PDF products from all manner of publishers covering a huge variety of systems, all redundantly mirrored between my primary hard drive, my laptop, Dropbox, and Google Drive. The crash was in my younger, more ignorant days.
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