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You'll have the option to get the most current issue or to start it on the next release.
How a subscription works is when the book is released. You'll get a pdf of that book when your book is shipped. Also this is when you'll get charged as well for the book. After that you just wait till the next month for the anther book, till you decide to cancel.
You'll have to purchase the previous books like normal thou.
RM
You'll have the option to get the most current issue or to start it on the next release.
How a subscription works is when the book is released. You'll get a pdf of that book when your book is shipped. Also this is when you'll get charged as well for the book. After that you just wait till the next month for the anther book, till you decide to cancel.
You'll have to purchase the previous books like normal thou.
RM
Though you get a discount on previous books if you have the Pathfinder Advantage
When I buy the older issues, do I still get them as free PDFs as well?
Unfortunately, no. Only those that come as part of a current subscription release comes with the free PDF.
It'd be a nice feature if, when you subscribed in the middle of an AP, you could get a bundle of the issues and PDFs you missed, as long as you paid for them all at once. After all, who wants half an AP? And it would be a bit discouraging to hear about a great AP too late to get in at the beginning.
I'm sure there are problems with this idea, such as people waiting until the 6th issue to subscribe and then immediately cancelling, or they'd have it in place already, though.
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I'm sure there are problems with this idea, such as people waiting until the 6th issue to subscribe and then immediately cancelling, or they'd have it in place already, though.
You've answered your own question right there. Our goal with the subscriptions is to encourage continuous and predictable sales of the books. We're not coy about this goal, because it is the core of our business model which allows us to keep producing the books we love.
It also means that we are extremely keen to avoid any change which may devalue the incentives in place to encourage continuous subscriptions (such as package deals). We do explore these options, but they always have (and probably always will) fail on the risk vs reward analysis.
Frank, honest answers, on the other hand, have always won out on the risk vs reward analysis. :)
Thanks,
cos
It's a shame, seeing that I put in an order to subscribe to The Reign of Winter today... but couldn't subscribe to the current book. The only one available was part 2. Seeing I want the book in time to put my group through it next week (and I wasn't able to find it in two bookstores or two gaming stores I visited today) I was left with buying the PDF alone.
BTW, despite now having a subscription to the rest of the adventure path, the PDF was full price. Or in other words it didn't give me 15% for my other subscription, nor 30% for the new Adventure Path subscription. While I can understand your company wanting to keep people on subscriptions, sometimes someone joins in after an adventure path has started. Allowing someone to gain the entire Adventure Path while it is current would be a friendly gesture to your customer base. Given your product's superiority to the D&D product line, I understand if you feel otherwise, however.
BTW, despite now having a subscription to the rest of the adventure path, the PDF was full price. Or in other words it didn't give me 15% for my other subscription, nor 30% for the new Adventure Path subscription.
The Paizo subscription bonus doesn't kick in until your first subscription copy ships. If Book 1 of RoW hasn't shipped yet, you can probably email customer service and see if they can hold off until your subscription is ready to ship so that you can get your 15% off.
I've been subscribed to the roleplaying game aspect for a while. I'm thinking the discount for subscriptions might not work with PDFs.
Once your first AP has shipped you'll get a discount on PDFs of other AP instalments.
The discount is for all Paizo products. If I am subscribed to the Pathfinder roleplaying books section (and I've gotten the Complete Equipment Guide and the NPC Codex as part of the subscription already, so it's a pre-existing subscription), for instance, and I order other Paizo Pathfinder products like modules or the like then according to what I've seen, I get a 15% discount. Seeing the discount hasn't shown up with any of the PDF purchases I've done, I'm suspecting the discount only is for print products.
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My understanding is that the 15% discount on everything (other than 3PP PDFs) is only tied to the AP subscription. And that takes effect after or concurrent with the first AP subscription volume shipping.
-- david
Papa-DRB is correct: The AP subscription is the only subscription that gives you the blanket 15% discount, and you can't use your discount until your first subscription copy of the AP ships. Once your package ships, you can purchase a print or PDF copy or both of RoW #1 and get the discount. Other subscription lines offer discounts on products in that same line but not on other product lines.
Pathfinder Adventure Path subscribers also receive the Pathfinder Advantage: 15% off of suggested retail price of all products on paizo.com, with the exception of non-Paizo downloadable files. (In the case of collectible products, the 15% discount will be taken off of Paizo's regular offering price.) This discount even applies to other Paizo subscriptions that aren't normally discounted! (If you already subscribe to these products, you need do nothing—appropriate discounts will be applied automatically.) With the Pathfinder Advantage, you can save on over 20,000 gaming products in the paizo.com store.
The Pathfinder Advantage does not stack with other subscription or sale discounts. This means that if a product is already on sale for 10% off of suggested retail, you'll get an extra 5% off. (Of course, if a product is already on sale for 50% off, you'll still get 50% off.) The Pathfinder Advantage discount will automatically be applied to all new paizo.com orders as long as you remain an active subscriber.
To qualify for the Pathfinder Advantage, the most recent volume of the Pathfinder Adventure Path must have been shipped to you (or, if you have multiple subscriptions with combined shipments, the most recent volume must be waiting to ship with your other subscription products). Any items ordered at the same time as your subscription, and any orders placed before that volume is shipped, do not qualify for the discount.
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As the others have said. The Pathfinder Advantage 15% doesn't kick in until until your first volume of the Adventure Path has shipped. I just checked on the order and it should be shipping soon. Once it does you'll get your free PDF for the book that shipped (#68).
Please let me know if you still have questions.
thanks
sara marie