Chriscdoa Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 I missed the KS and i imagine the books will take a while to be out... but will there be a PDF? with the exception of Star Wars, all RPGs have PDFs nowadays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dracomax Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 Hard to say. a Pdf exists, but I don't know if they intend to sell it or not at this point, or if it is only for kickstarer participants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriscdoa Posted April 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 So. The kickstarter backers have been sent a pdf, which means it exists. Why not sell it? Waiting until august for the books is daft... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anaxiamander Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 So. The kickstarter backers have been sent a pdf, which means it exists. Why not sell it? Waiting until august for the books is daft... In part, I suspect it's that Wyrd promised during the funding campaign to deliver the rewards to Kickstarter backers before beginning to sell to the public. Keeping that promise is important, especially since there was a hiccup with their last Kickstarter campaign that resulted in people being able to buy the game before backers were even sent their copies (so I've gathered from reading the Jetpack Unicorn KS page, I wasn't a backer myself). Also, I suspect that they'll want to have the book for sale to the general public before the pdf, if they'll be selling it at all, because there's a better chance of the book being purchased over being pirated that way. Again, not sure if this is the reason, or even if it's statistically supported, but I could see it as a contributing factor in the decision. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilus Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 In this day and age it seems silly not to sell a digital copy of the book. Especially considering a PDF is already out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dracomax Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 You say that, and yet the M2E book has been out for a year, and there is no indication of any willingness at all to sell it as a pdf. Wyrd, and book publishers in general have a record of (fairly justifiable) worry about piracy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mako Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 I agree that the PDF couldn't go on sale really before the physical release, and that there's always the piracy concern. I don't think one existing does (or necessarily should) make it inevitable that it will be sold as well. I will say though, that I recently went and picked up a physical copy of a game I'm in at the moment because the PDF was a lousy copy. No ability to search the text made it a nightmare, so I went and found a book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Caroland Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 PDF's will be made available for TTB after the the Kickstarter has been fulfilled in full and it has been brought to market. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriscdoa Posted April 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Good to know. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rancor709 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Awesome and thank you. I much prefer running off PDF than book when I'm Dming online. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rythos42 Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 <threadcromancy> Is there any word of a digital copy we can buy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orcface Posted January 1, 2015 Report Share Posted January 1, 2015 Kickstarter fulfillment is still not complete. *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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