Originally Posted by
Trenloe
I hope so. Then the developer will stand a chance of getting a small amount of recompense for the hundreds of hours they will spend on the conversion.
If you'd rather pay $29.99 for the PDF and enter it yourself then you're welcome to.
Doug has explained in detail in this thread the pricing strategy. And, that in the end, it's up to the publisher.
People see value completely differently, and some people will always compare a Fantasy Grounds conversion with a PDF of the product. Where other FG users will realise that an FG conversion is so much more than just a PDF, and appreciate the work that goes into it. For me, it boggles the mind that nearly 600 pages of product converted into FG is expected to be sold for $29.99. The person who started this thread was expecting to pay around $9 for 45 pages - I'm sure you can extrapolate that based off 600 pages... I hope they'd see $99 as reasonable for 600 pages of content. But, like I say, people see value differently. There's always the good fallback - if you want to pay for a PDF then pay for a PDF, and go ahead and enter all the data into FG...
And consider this - everyone wants to see more content of their favourite games on FG, I certainly do. I'm sure you do too. If the very small number of FG developers/converters feel their work isn't being appreciated, is being under valued, or other such phrases that could be applied to this, then you'll soon see your FG conversions drying up.
It's a massive (and I mean MASSIVE) undertaking to convert something like this, I know how I'd feel if someone said the same thing about a conversion I'd spent months working on...
(Where's that dead horse? It's around here somewhere...)