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Actually it does create that level playing field because it ensures everyone is using the exact same reference material, that everyone has with them - not something that only one person "potentially" has and nobody else has even heard about. Just go look at the Pathfinder products on Drivethrurpg.

Again, if it bothers you that much its not for you because it doesn't appear to affect those that play in the events at all.

Doesn't really seem to bother any of the thousands of people that play in the events.

If it bothers "you" that much it probably isn't for you.

I told you where to go look for the info if you wanted. Its more about ensuring that everyone that is playing in the organized event is playing on a level playing field. Along with the book or the marked pdf you have to bring ALL of adventure chronicles (logs) to every event for the character being played. It proves to the other players and gm where your character got the items he/she has, what adventures they have been on in the past.

There is a big button left upper side of the page that will tell you everything you want to know.

I actually signed up shortly after registering here, but have never actually played so couldn't tell you what the events are like.

Sorry, referring to a different post of hers. Its because of the rules of the Pathfinder Society, not a big deal to those of who will never play in one of those events. If you want to play in one of those events you either need to have the hard copy book, or the watermarked PDF.

Those watermarks are put on at the time of download, every time you go to download the file. That's is what is overloaded. Since they are a small company and they host their own stuff locally to protect their IP they have never had to deal with this kind of queue demand. A process that normally only take a second or two in any browser is suddenly unable to keep up with demand.

If someone keeps refreshing the download link it sends another watermark request to the server...thus continuing the overload.

Tabbymouse explained it in the post right after that one.

20k is a huge number to a small company like Paizo. This is the exact same result that the very first bundle had...and that was Origin.

The fact that the bundle exceeded even Humble Bundle's expectations, and that 20k new customers accounts were created on Paizo within the first 24 hours have "nothing" to do with the download issues.

Paizo has never had deal with anything like this, their servers were overwhelmed. Solving that is not as easy as saying "It's broke...fix it"

Since Paizo has all of 6 or 7 people in IT including the supervisor and QA person its going to take them time to sort it out.

If you had bothered to red the thread linked in the big read message on top of the page when you first come to Paizo's site you would know most of this already.

Sinistrad wrote:

I've been unable to download my PDFs for at least three days now.

I've tried in both Chrome and Firefox and I have tried from two different computers and networks, one running Windows 10 and the other running Windows 7. I've never had problems on either machine or network before.

I am unable to find any outage notifications, and I do not get any error messages. What the heck is going on?

(Yes, I have cleared my cache and restarted my browser in both Firefox and Chrome.)

This is starting to be ridiculous. I am at 6 days trying to download this. You guys should have removed that stupid "personalizing" thing. If people are going to copy the books they can get them all they want off bit torrent so get rid of the "personalizing" step so people who decided to purchase the items can get them. (they purchased it cheaply but it was legit) Otherwise, people are just going to get irritated and just go get them from other sources.

There is a reason for the "personalizing" thing, and its not just a DRM thing.

Unfortunately, for me I am still getting remote3 errors in both Chrome and IE/Edge after clearing caches and rebooting. At one point the Chrome pages were auto refreshing every 30s or so but have stopped doing that.

No worries on my end, the files will still be there when I try again in another day or two. I don't need anything right at this moment but that bundle was too damn good to pass up.

edit - forgot a word