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Bigger Sewers have been added to my digital collection now, thank you. :) I had emailed their support as well, so for those that don't have it you may need to do that.


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The third tier of the Humble Bundle lists two "Bigger" Flip-Mat packs, but the code only put one in my library, "Bigger Forest". "Bigger Sewers" is missing from my downloads.


Vic Wertz wrote:
emmers wrote:
Most bundles that run for multiple weeks (like this one) have another set of goodies drop exactly one week after the bundle debuts... The Pathfinder bundle doesn't say anything about additional stuff in week 2, but that doesn't mean it won't happen.
We're not adding anything to it.

So much for my dreams of the Advanced Races Guide. I was hoping maybe there'd be something for how successful this has been, or as a bit of "thank you for your patience". Ah well.

For the record, everything's been running pretty smoothly for me today, even in Chrome. Managed to snag the other guide books I wanted from my list.


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Well, despite the troubles on my first day trying to download the core book, I've been managing to snag the other resources without much issue thus far. Other than Chrome still timing out way too early on the download, but that's Chrome.

Yea, the site's still getting hammered. But patience is the key. I think a bit of patience and understanding is worth it for this amazing deal of a bundle.


Core Rulebook successfully downloaded. :D

I'll be waiting a bit before I try to d/l any others. But rest assured everyone trying, the system IS working. Eventually.


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It's giving me time out errors, not DNS errors. (Though Chrome IS particularly bad about DNS stuff, admittedly.) Edge took a while to connect, but it claims to have. Now I just need to wait 40 minutes to make sure it worked. Thanks!

You guys there ARE doing a good job trying to handle this insane load. Kudos to everyone there, and again, congratulations on the success of this charity event even thus far. It's amazing to see that the average is higher than the high book tier. It's amazing not only how many people have been in, but how much they're going in for.


Well, I've reached the first hurdle. I've received the URL for my download link.

I can't actually reach that server yet though... so I'm hoping that download link sticks around long enough for me to actually download it. But this is progress at least. (And heck yea I was excited when I saw the download link!)


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As of the time of writing this, given the number of orders and the average amount, this bundle has raised $666k.

...Jack Chick was right!


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Well, I am going to throw my comments into the ring too.

I just went in for this bundle. All in, because it is an amazing value, and a good cause (particularly when you can add a charity of your choice to the mix). I'm sure the charities thank you, Paizo, for your amazing donation incentives!

I am well aware that an event this large can bring servers to their knees. I am also well aware that the system's not going to get 'fixed' any time soon. I also know that my PDFs will be here later, I'm certainly not gonna need to download everything right away. In fact, all I really want up front is the core rulebook, so I can start looking through it. Everything else? It'll be there (hopefully) when I get to it.

But the way the system is set up right now.... there's really no messages telling you what's going on. You click it once, it says "personalizing, click again in 10 seconds" (well, clearly wait longer, as the red text right now tells you).... but what's effectively happening is you're being told to wait a bit and click the same link, and hope something different happens. You aren't being told WHEN it's ready. Just that they're trying to MAKE it ready, and it should be ready at some point.

On top of that, if you wait too long, you get logged out. Now, the red text and the post SAYS that that's not an issue... but when you go back to the download pages after logging back in, the "personalizing" bit is gone. And doesn't come back if you click again. So we, as the consumers, are completely unaware of what is going on. Did we lose our place in the queue? Are we sending new requests every time we click? Does the system even know that we're still here and waiting?

There's no transparency. There's no indications of what's going on. There's no estimated time limit, place in queue, there's NOTHING to let us know if it's working or not.

And that's troubling. And it's probably what's causing a whole lot of extra clicks, and slowing everything down even more.

As I'm looking at this, this system seems poorly equipped to handle even small amounts of traffic with this kind of setup. The whole system could benefit with some more experienced eyes reworking it and optimizing. It'd take some loads off the server. Of course, it would also take a pretty major overhaul that wouldn't be done any time soon too.

I'm still gonna try to get my book (been at it all day so far). And then let the server hopefully balance out in the coming weeks, or months, until it's time to collect the rest.