Personalizer VERY irritating today!


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Been trying to personalize my Dragon 295 for over 20 minutes now.

Then again, the whole site seems to be slow today, so maybe its more of a server issue rather than just the personalizer.

The Exchange RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32

I agree .. though I just got two mails saying that the Core Rulebook and Bestiary pdfs had been updated. Cue many millions personalizing 100Mb files...


Robert Miller 55 wrote:

Been trying to personalize my Dragon 295 for over 20 minutes now.

Then again, the whole site seems to be slow today, so maybe its more of a server issue rather than just the personalizer.

When WoTC banned further pdf sales of those magazines I think it stopped all future downloads also. If I can dig up the old links I will post it for you.

Edit: Here is an article about the issue. There was a big thread on in on the WoTC site at the time, and other sites as well. click me

PS: The site is slow today.

Edit 2: another link on enworld

The Exchange

Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber
wraithstrike wrote:
Robert Miller 55 wrote:

Been trying to personalize my Dragon 295 for over 20 minutes now.

Then again, the whole site seems to be slow today, so maybe its more of a server issue rather than just the personalizer.

When WoTC banned further pdf sales of those magazines I think it stopped all future downloads also. If I can dig up the old links I will post it for you.

Edit: Here is an article about the issue. There was a big thread on in on the WoTC site at the time, and other sites as well. click me

PS: The site is slow today.

Edit 2: another link on enworld

Actually the Dragon/Dungeon Magazines are "special" in that regard because Paizo has a special deal with WotC on the sale and distribution of those old magazines; pretty much 100% because Paizo were the content creators of the magazine for quite some time. Dragon/Dungeon Magazines are the only WotC PDFs that are still available for sale.

Shadow Lodge

Alizor wrote:


Actually the Dragon/Dungeon Magazines are "special" in that regard because Paizo has a special deal with WotC on the sale and distribution of those old magazines; pretty much 100% because Paizo were the content creators of the magazine for quite some time. Dragon/Dungeon Magazines are the only WotC PDFs that are still available for sale.

I dunno if it's because of WotC or some other reason, but only some of the Paizo Dragon/Dungeon PDFs are available. For example, not long ago I bought all the issues with the Age of Worms Adventure Path. But I can't do the same with the Savage Tide Adventure Path.


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The one by Vic is the one to be read. I don't know why they can still be downloaded.

Liberty's Edge

Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber
Robert Miller 55 wrote:

Been trying to personalize my Dragon 295 for over 20 minutes now.

Then again, the whole site seems to be slow today, so maybe its more of a server issue rather than just the personalizer.

Personally, I always have issues with the personalizer. It always takes a lot of patience when I need to download something.

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Dragon and Dungeon are not WotC products, they are Paizo products. Therefore, they were immune to the Great PDF Pullout Debacle.

You can still buy and download old Dragon and Dungeon issues. Except for the last few ones, which Paizo couldn't make PDF before the license plug was pulled - those exist only in paper version.


Gorbacz wrote:

Dragon and Dungeon are not WotC products, they are Paizo products. Therefore, they were immune to the Great PDF Pullout Debacle.

You can still buy and download old Dragon and Dungeon issues. Except for the last few ones, which Paizo couldn't make PDF before the license plug was pulled - those exist only in paper version.

I wonder how many other people dont know this.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

Looks like the personalizer started being seriously unhappy around 1 p.m. today. I've given it a good kick so hopefully it will behave for now.

Rewriting the my downloads page is on the todo list but it's behind a few other things right now.


Gary Teter wrote:

Looks like the personalizer started being seriously unhappy around 1 p.m. today. I've given it a good kick so hopefully it will behave for now.

Rewriting the my downloads page is on the todo list but it's behind a few other things right now.

OK, now I got it to DL, but now half of the cover is blacked out, and portions of many of the maps and art pieces are green, like they only half way downloaded.


Robert Miller 55 wrote:
Gary Teter wrote:

Looks like the personalizer started being seriously unhappy around 1 p.m. today. I've given it a good kick so hopefully it will behave for now.

Rewriting the my downloads page is on the todo list but it's behind a few other things right now.

OK, now I got it to DL, but now half of the cover is blacked out, and portions of many of the maps and art pieces are green, like they only half way downloaded.

NVM, it just wasn't properly extracted to a file. Fixed now.

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Gorbacz wrote:

Dragon and Dungeon are not WotC products, they are Paizo products. Therefore, they were immune to the Great PDF Pullout Debacle.

You can still buy and download old Dragon and Dungeon issues. Except for the last few ones, which Paizo couldn't make PDF before the license plug was pulled - those exist only in paper version.

Effectively, you're correct. (Technically, though, we still have Dungeon and Dragon PDFs not because they were published by Paizo, but because we were given specific permission from Wizards to continue selling the ones that already existed as part of the conclusion of our magazine license. And because part of our license required that we wait a year before selling any issues in PDF form, we were unable to introduce PDFs for the last year of print issues before the license concluded.)

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