| itdraugr |
How many of you people complaining about the issues with their servers have done anything through the Humble Bundle ever before??? Anything that is popular WRECKS the serves of the providers.
As it is, you should be happy for 2 major points: 1) Paizo is basically giving away their digital books for practically nothing, 2) Extra Life is a Children's Miracle Network partner and the money they raise go to the local children's hospitals.
So grow up and stop feeling that everything needs to be handed to you on a platter...
I've gotten quite a few Humble Bundle deals on games (PC and mobile), books and music. I've never experienced any delays like this on any of them. But they have all been served up either through Steam or as downloads from the Humble Bundle website. This is the first time I've had to go to the content creator's site to download anything for a Humble Bundle.
Assuming you're right and this kind of thing happens every time there's a popular bundle (and my experiences so far have just been a statistically anomalous fluke), then it seems like someone should have prepared for the server onslaught ahead of time rather than just waiting for a clearly predictable problem to happen.
I don't think there's any need to tell people to "grow up" in this situation. People are criticizing Paizo's failure to follow the Five P's (Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance) but it isn't a personal attack against you or other fans of Paizo or anyone else. The Humble Bundle concept works because it gives people a reward for supporting charities. In this case, people are frustrated because the reward is getting held up by technical problems.