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I'm an old Pathfinder fan finally converting after the last few months of being told how much cooler Pathfinder 2nd is then all of the other kids at the playground and went to buy all of it that was released when I ran into a few weird problems.
1. This place is set up like a forum. Finding anything relevant is difficult. Some links go to something that seems like what I want but isn't, and others aren't really labeled fully as 2nd edition products, making me kind, a slightly older dude with some eye issues, have a bit of trouble. More over, the Subscription thing is pretty badly explained. It seems to imply that you can get prior issues somehow by the line 'never worry about missing a release' and it also seems to think that people are stupid. In the comments, there is literally an employee saying 'Hey, we didn't like the idea of you being able to sub once a year (because we don't want to make it cheaper like yearly subscriptions usually are) so we've removed the option. Probably because the cost of the books, despite not seemingly deviating, is not set and you don't pay a fixed fee every month. Very, very shady shit. Just set it to 30% of 19.99 a month and accept that the digital products that cost you nothing to reproduce is only going to make you an amount of profit that is egregious instead of leaving yourself open to throw in a 50 dollar book every now and again and making other peoples bank accounts?
2. I was willing to and probably going to pay it (the other issues are now as much a factor as this one), but I have never understood why a company thinks a digital product should be worth anywhere near the cost of a physical product. The prices should at least be halved and the lack of any decrease in price over the years is also fairly bad. I'm willing to give Paizo a lot of credit for being a largely honest company that isn't very large and doesn't make much, but there was literally no point toward this price tag other then 'even more profit' and that kind of mentality needs to go. How many more people would be jumping into 2e if it were cost effective to do it digitally? I know of at least three table groups (mine) that would have.
3. The cart does not feature a total or subtotal. This is weird because it used to. So either a chance accidentally removed it, or this is another weird 'profit' choice. Looking a lot more like Wizards when I don't get told how much I'm spending until after I enter my card in the process. The fact that I can skip ahead is also not apparent, so that's just a flimsy excuse. Online companies do this a lot to confuse people and keep them from thinking about their costs. Again, highly scummy.
I was legitimately in on this. Paizo definitely framed themselves in the public eyes as being different. But having BEEN ON THIS SITE BEFORE I know some of these changes are intentional and are made by people who think exactly the same way as Wizards.
I don't know how much in digital goods I was going to buy from Paizo, since it always had some decent third party releases too, but I can tell you how much I'm going to buy now. I'm afraid I'm going to need your card info first though.