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Steady Leek wrote:

Anything from Paizo around the SF player core shipping estimate for subscribers being pushed out past the 25th? My order is still pending, and I'm a bit worried this will now mean it won't ship until after the weekend.

This is the information that I got from that page:

Paizo Employee Maya Coleman Community & Social Media Specialist 7 hours, 46 minutes ago | Flag | List | Reply
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azjauthor wrote:
I'm a subscriber, and I do not yet have access to the PDF. Are only some subscribers being given access early? My order is still showing as Pending and hasn't shipped yet, so maybe that's the holdup. I'm scheduled to play some Starfinder at GenCon on July 31, and am concerned I won't have a digital copy of the sourcebook to reference yet when I'm sitting down for the game ... which is probably fine, since everyone will to some degree or another be learning how to play.

The above comment is correct! If an official answer would ease your worries a bit more, you will not receive access to your PDF until your specific order has shipped!

Thanks! Yeah I get and share your frustrations. Realistically I know I can wait another week or so, the whole process just seems very flawed. I get that a subscription doesnt promise early access, but its also the only benefit for international subscribers in particular (free PDF is more than cancelled out by the large shipping costs).

Overall I think communication is key though. If Paizo isn't going to change the systems that tie them to this shipping model some more transparency would be nice. I love Paizo and want to support through subscription but its hard to rationalise when the threat of getting products later at increase cost comes up for every big release.

Anyway, fingers crossed you get your order soon.

Anything from Paizo around the SF player core shipping estimate for subscribers being pushed out past the 25th? My order is still pending, and I'm a bit worried this will now mean it won't ship until after the weekend.

It’s true but “at the same time” covers a shipping window of a week or more.

That, coupled with the varying shipping speeds people may choose and the differences between transit times to different regions, means arrivals of subscriber products are spread out over a good month or more.

It can also mean that you get your product after streetdate (when you could buy it at a store) so “as soon as possible” Is a statistical thing, not necessarily true for every single month.

Overall, subscribing is the best method if you want everything as soon as possible. Picking it up from other retailers can get it to you earlier in some cases but you won’t be able to pick which situations.

If I were to tweak it, I’d suggest subscribing November through April (and possibly June/July as well). That would be my guess as to how to genuinely maximise your chances of getting every product as early as possible.

That kind of micromanaging is a bit of a pain in the neck, imo. Plus those odd times that things sell out super fast - I’d rather be a subscriber than gamble my retail outlet is going to have stock for me.

Thanks for taking the time to explain! I'll do a bit more looking into what's going to be quicker in the long run Long shipping distance for me might not be helping either. Currently it seems like subscription will be reliably the quickest for me to have my hands on the physical copy, but would be cheaper to buy the pdf online on street date and the physical copy in store, while still getting the pdf earlier / same time.

Michael Hallet wrote:

I don't want a monthly subscription. I want an as soon as it is available subscription.

If you are a subscriber, you get your items as soon as they are available.

You have several options to buy Paizo products
1) Subscribe to the product line.
This automatically gives you the new release as soon as it is available. Those are shipped to all subscribers at the same time. Usually you get your physical copy before the official street release date.

2) Pre-order the product from Paizo
This also gives you the new release as soon as it is available, but you have to initiate each purchase separately. Usually you get your physical copy before the official street release date.

3) Pre-order the product from your local gaming store.
You can pick it up from the on the release date.

4) Pre-order the product from a 3rd-party source like Amazon.

You weren't a subscriber when the "subscriber" orders were processed. So you aren't in on the first round of shipments for these products.

Because you *now* are a subscriber, Paizo has defaulted to the "ship all my new purchases once a month with my subscription" option.

The option to have new purchases shipped immediately is part of the checkout process for new orders. There's a "shipping" button where you can change shipping details, including whether or not to hold that order for your subscription shipment, or to send it out immediately.

But for product lines you are subscribed to, you're going to get them as soon as they are available. The glitch right now is that you were not a subscriber when the 'subscriber shipments' pick lists were generated.

As soon as they get to your email, they'll be able to get that part of your order sorted. 

Sorry to dig this post up, was just looking for some answers myself. Honest question - are we sure option 1 is true / meant to be true? I've been a product line subscriber for a while now,have received several products, but often will wait considerably longer than some subscribers for my order to ship. Even with a solo item. Have been looking for an answer around this but seems to be some mixed views.

Big fan of paizo and their products, it does sting a bit to not get early pdf access with my subscription due to the shipping date gap when I see others getting it.