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As someone that spent 28 bucks on only two pdfs yesterday that I can't download because of the bundle thing going on, I think people should focus on that it's charity. You'll eventually be able to download, just as I will. But it should be about the charity. That's just IMO.
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some of you are patient
some of you have common sense
some of you understand the bigger picture of this event
the rest of you make me a little sad and a bit angry
I bought two pdfs yesterday for 28 bucks... haven't been able to download either.. While I can empathize a bit, as a college student with only limited time to read or play... I also have to say... have patience. This was a charity bundle that had a rush they weren't quite expecting. While I know how annoying not being able to download for you is, I only have two pdfs I want to download, but can't. Patience.
I have tried waiting various times before downloading... including an hour and 15 minutes... nothing.
I get that there is extra strain on the servers due to the humble bundle and what-not, but seriously? I can't download 1 single pdf file?
Also, the system gives no clue as to whether or not anything is being done, and sometimes just pops me back out to the homepage - really infuriating!
Is anyone addressing this, or does Paizo really just expect us to wait for days or weeks until their servers can handle our downloads?
yes, I'm seeing this as well. I appreciate the header to make us aware. Any idea when would be a good time to attempt these downloads?Common Paizo its 2016 and you need not run servers on DSL in a garage, we need more servers fired up in the cloud! I will not purchase the full bundle until I can at least download one PDF for god sake and check out if I want the full Humble Bundle for $25. Your loosing people interest with the indefinite personalizing link BS not to mention loosing charity money for willing people!
At most there are frustrated people. The interest is still there, given that people are here talking about how they cannot get the merchandise. Paizo didn't expect the huge response that they received on this promotion, and were not geared for that sort of demand on their servers in combination with their monthly release schedule.
It's 2016, let's show some patience. It's a great thing that there are this many people interested in the game.
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Well publishers, what can you do. They tend to be stuck in the 60's in terms of technological prowess. Not much to be done there....
You consider 'stuck in the 60's' to mean offering nearly all of your content in digital format? Because they don't trust outside contractors?
It's a large event, yes, but a web-based business should prepare for an event they know is coming, and be able to scale servers in response.
Maybe they are doing this and it's still not enough, maybe they are doing nothing but watch their servers redline all day, waiting for traffic to die down in a few days.
For many people this is their first experience with Paizo, by not being prepared for that traffic, they have made those people's first experience a terrible one.
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As an individual who works in the IT sector, I would like to hear from the company about what they are doing to resolve this issue, not just the banner on the download page that says to wait.
But how many people are actually able to download anything? The only way to reduce the traffic without having very unhappy customers is if a reasonable proportion of people who bought stuff recently are actually able to download what they bought.
So waiting for the traffic to die down is a good strategy for us customers, but a lousy one for Paizo.
I guess what I want is for the company to tell us what, if anything they are doing about the download issues. It would be nice to know if they are just expecting us to wait this out or if we may see some kind of resolution.
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I need some kind of solution very soon, I have to prep 7-16 for a con that starts tomorrow and I don't have the time to click my download every 30 seconds for the next 6 hours to evetually get it. -.-
Thanks for letting us know that you will be providing details Chris. In my book, it goes a long way to alleviating customer issues.
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I agree, as they say "Hell is not knowing."
Thank you Chris.
Quick update: I've talked further with our tech team and waiting on confirmation of a few details. The service is still online, but, the queue is just currently very large.
Guys just start to trust your customers! All this stuff just because of your copy protection... Load it up into a database with an integrated login. So everybody can download the plain files. That would help everybody! Thanks!
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Word on the street is that you need to keep your session fresh, by clicking the download link periodically to maintain your login to the queue. Not sure how true this is.
Guys just start to trust your customers!
Which ones? The ones that posted torrents of Pathfinder PDFs? The ones that uploaded everything to Scribd?
C'mon.... If someone wants to post it on torrent or wherever will also delete this "copyprotection"(just a watermark). So if the result of that is, that the REAL customers have huge problems you should rethink your tactics....
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The real customers DON'T have huge problems. I've purchased from Paizo since 2009. This is perhaps the second or third time I've had problems with the personalizer. This incident is unlikely to convince them they need to do away with watermarking. It's far more likely to convince them they need to alter their setup to deal with these heavy loads.
Edit: Ninja'd by Phylotus?! THERE WILL BE REPERCUSSIONS!
Guys just start to trust your customers! All this stuff just because of your copy protection... Load it up into a database with an integrated login. So everybody can download the plain files. That would help everybody! Thanks!
The watermarks serve a secondary purpose beyond just making it annoying to upload the pdf to file sharing/torrent sites (someone motivated to do so can, with enough time, simply remove all the watermarks so as a defense mechanism against pirating that only keeps out the lazy ones). If you want to play in the Pathfinder Society Organized Play, you need to have the sourcebook on hand for any non-core options (to prove you own the book). This can be done either by having the physical book or by having a printout of the watermarked pdf. If you came in with a printout of a non-watermarked pdf (or a photocopy of a book), that wouldn't hold up to PFS standards.
If you don't care about PFS, this doesn't apply to you so it's just a half-baked copy protection measure that makes downloading things from this site an exercise in frustration, even when the queue isn't clogged. The likelihood of that process changing is approximately zero though, so nothing to do but wait. I'm personally going to hold off a couple days before attempting my downloads, I'm not in any particular rush with them.
Just because you are such an hard formed community you shouldn't think about the new customers like that! I bought a lot of paizo books!!! Im not from the US so i bought the stuff in my country's online store... So if you wan't to expand your community you should be a bit more open.
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As a "real" customer, I am only slightly annoyed at technology for doing what technology does, but not at the people or the cause. The charity is a great thing. The Paizo folks do what they can do. Technology getting upset that it is being overwhelmed.. it is annoying.. but it happens. It isn't anything for anyone to really be upset about.
Cthulhusquatch I totally agree with you!
Sorry if I've chosen the wrong words for it! I also managed to download some files. The problem is just the way of communication by the tech-team and the community after more than 24 hours.