Joshua , James,
Is there a way you could create a bundle product that contains all Pathfinder Society Scenarios pdfs (one bundle for each season) at a discounted price?
It would be a great stimulus product to catch up!
Thanks!
Joshua , James,
Is there a way you could create a bundle product that contains all Pathfinder Society Scenarios pdfs (one bundle for each season) at a discounted price?
It would be a great stimulus product to catch up!
Thanks!
They may eventually do something like this starting with Season One, but it will never happen with Season Zero. Several Season Zero scenarios have been retired so far, with more probably to go, plus some of the others are supposedly slated for conversion from 3.5 to PRPG rules.
Any updates??? please
We have no plans to sell reduced cost bundles. We do occasionally (as in twice since the beginning) put the PDFs on sale, though, and if you have a Pathfinder Advantage discount, that applies to the scenarios as well.
I usually use the holiday card discount coupon to get a bunch of scenarios at the end of the year. Of course, I'm patient enough to wait since I'm not running any active society games.
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Paizo gave me a great deal on a bundle. If I bought season 0 scenario #1 for $111.72 they'd give me the next 27 for free. Though, as with all bundles, I'm committed to a two year subscription at the rate of $7.98 per month. But it does get me two new scenarios each and every month. Can't beat that. The infomercial will stream on Paizo.com during the holiday season. :P
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Or a monthly subscription ... gotta have 'em all!
I regard a subscription as the only viable option. Unless you can buy bundles of 10 (change it to your favourite number) pdfs and cherry-pick what you want/need.
So far I have quite a few season 0 and 1 scenarios. I buy them before I GM (with one or two spare - just in case) - or after I played them to have more choice of scenarios to GM on the spot.
So a bundle of season 2 in a years time when all of them are available will be too late. By that time I will have bought quiete a few to GM them. And I would expect the number of new PFS members who suddenly start and want to have all of them as rather small.
Just my opinion.
Right now I just use my Adventure Path subscription to get them cheaper. Works for me.
Thod
Chief Technical Officer
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Or a monthly subscription ... gotta have 'em all!+1
Question: What would you *expect* from a subscription?
Generally, our subs have two key benefits: convenience, and some form of savings.
The PSSs are pretty inexpensive already—especially if you already have an AP subscription—so we don't have a whole lot of room there.
And I just don't think a PSS sub has that much to offer in the way of convenience. Assuming you have your marketing preferences set to allow it, we already e-mail everyone who bought any scenario in the past year to let them know that new ones are out, so sub or not, you won't miss one if you're paying attention. And even if you did have a sub, you'd still have to come to the site to download the files, and there's really not that much difference between buying them and downloading them and just downloading them.
If the only thing a subscription would do is save you a couple of clicks every month, would you bother?
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Question: What would you *expect* from a subscription?
Generally, our subs have two key benefits: convenience, and some form of savings.
The PSSs are pretty inexpensive already—especially if you already have an AP subscription—so we don't have a whole lot of room there.
For me, it would be convenience.
I often hold items in my shopping cart for days or weeks while I'm deciding just what or when I want to purchase. Eg, sometimes I add items to my cart over the course of a month to save on overseas shipping; sometimes I hold items in my cart until after important bills such as my rent is paid, etc.
During that time, despite their low cost, I can't purchase Society scenarios without checking out my entire shopping cart. This has occasionally delayed my purchasing and running Society scenarios I have been looking forward to.
Subscriptions on the other hand, occur automatically. Due to their low cost, an automatic payment wouldn't concern me. I'm really not expecting a discount, as you said, they're already low priced. For me, it's merely the convenience factor of bypassing my cart.
I realise Paizo already have wish-lists, and I do use those to track upcoming products I wish to keep an eye on, or non-immediate purchases I might wish to add to my order some time in the future. Otherwise, I'm a busy guy, and for various reasons, having products sitting in my cart is a good in-my-face reminder of purchases I might be considering - eg, products I might have browsed during my lunch-break but haven't had time to read reviews yet, or bookmark items that I might want to check if available locally before paying for overseas shipping, etc.
Hope this helps provides some insight into the unfathomable online shopping habits of at least one of your frequent shoppers ;-)
Cheers,
DarkWhite
We have no plans to sell reduced cost bundles. We do occasionally (as in twice since the beginning)
Then I'll have to wait and buy them all in a single shot opportunity (3rd PDF Sale Maybe???)
Thanks anyway!
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Chief Technical Officer
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During that time, despite their low cost, I can't purchase Society scenarios without checking out my entire shopping cart. This has occasionally delayed my purchasing and running Society scenarios I have been looking forward to.
A while back, we added a feature to your shopping cart to ease your life in just this situation. Juts go to your cart, and look for the "Save for Later" button under each product's name. Clicking the button creates a "SAVED ITEMS—TO BUY LATER" section, and you can move stuff back and forth between there and your cart with a single click.
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A while back, we added a feature to your shopping cart to ease your life in just this situation. Juts go to your cart, and look for the "Save for Later" button under each product's name. Clicking the button creates a "SAVED ITEMS—TO BUY LATER" section, and you can move stuff back and forth between there and your cart with a single click.
That is too many Clicks!! Your page should know by now exactly what I want when I want it! It should be able to put the product in my shopping cart all by itself, charge me and then ship it before I even know I want it!!
How long will it take Gary to set that up?
;)
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During that time, despite their low cost, I can't purchase Society scenarios without checking out my entire shopping cart. This has occasionally delayed my purchasing and running Society scenarios I have been looking forward to.A while back, we added a feature to your shopping cart to ease your life in just this situation. Juts go to your cart, and look for the "Save for Later" button under each product's name. Clicking the button creates a "SAVED ITEMS—TO BUY LATER" section, and you can move stuff back and forth between there and your cart with a single click.
Hi Vic,
Thanks for pointing that out, I really hadn't noticed it. I do most of my "shopping" via the side-bar on each page, and the page you're referring to is mostly a transitional page I don't take much notice of, excpet to click through to to the billing/shipping page. Also, the "save for later" puts the product "out of sight, out of mind", and my purpose for putting things in my cart is so I have a constant visual reminder whenever I visit the Paizo site, eg reading messageboards etc, that I have some products I've "saved for later", eg it's in my face, not hidden away.
Not trying to argue with you, I can see how "save for later" could be a useful feature, I'm just trying to describe my own shopping habits and reasons for them. Though I might use "save for later" now I know it's there :-)
I still think a Pathfinder Society Scenarios subscription simply added to my other monthly subscriptions would be a good idea, so when it comes time to run a scenario, I've already purchased it, and it can be billed when my other monthly items ship.
I'm sure there are also disadvantages to this, such as when I need a scenario released this week, but my subscription is set to ship with my Adventure Path which might not be due for another 3 weeks. Is there a way to release items in your side-cart waiting for other products to ship, eg a "ship now" button?
Cheers,
DarkWhite
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Also, the "save for later" puts the product "out of sight, out of mind", and my purpose for putting things in my cart is so I have a constant visual reminder whenever I visit the Paizo site, eg reading messageboards etc, that I have some products I've "saved for later", eg it's in my face, not hidden away.
You could always move them back into your cart after you finish your transaction... and that's not even wasted clicking, since you'll presumably be doing that eventually anyway.
I still think a Pathfinder Society Scenarios subscription simply added to my other monthly subscriptions would be a good idea, so when it comes time to run a scenario, I've already purchased it, and it can be billed when my other monthly items ship.
Well, given that we try to schedule subscription shipments for the first week or two of each month, and we try to release PSSs in the last week of each month, that concept would have the net effect of getting people their scenarios two or three weeks after release. I don't think most people would see that as convenient...
Is there a way to release items in your side-cart waiting for other products to ship, eg a "ship now" button?
Yep, we already have that.