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[ddavison]

Thanks for the suggestions. For the discount/sync, we added a note to the product pages for each of those at the top. I've been reluctant to modify the shopping cart and product listing too much more because it's a bit of a Frankenstein monster already with 13 years of hooks, warts and boils bolted on to provide sales, merchant discounts, etc. and the Paizo products only account for less than 2% of our product catalog (14 out of 757 products). It should show ownership though whenever your are logged on.

[Bidmaron]

I had to go to my synchronization page and re-download my purchases, even though I have owned the Bestiary 4 since its release. I had already done the sync when I bought the initial materials (except Kingmaker - waiting for the line to be completed), so I am not sure why I had to re download for my discount to appear.

Paizo may be only 2% of catalog items, but hopefully it is a lot more than 2% of your sales revenue now. However, I understand your hesitation, and thanks for the reply -- I certainly wasn't expecting that.

[ddavison]

The sync only pulls over products that correspond to FG versions of files we have created so far. There is a preliminary step we do when we put it into the store that tells Paizo that the product is created and after that, they send us back PDF ownership for corresponding products. I believe this is so that we don't get a list of all PDFs and purchases from a Paizo customer when we shouldn't really need that level of information.

[Bidmaron]

Makes sense, but I religiously follow these boards and failed to pick up on that point. Hence my recommendation to add the note to cart. I did not load the product page. When I heard Bestiary 4 was released, I simply went to store, and purchased it right from the product list without loading the product page (since I was very familiar with the product). However, I knew how to sync from my prior experience, so I believed I knew what to do (and did, in this case).

[Grey Mage]

Any more products in the (immediate) pipeline from Paizo?

[Bidmaron]

You mean beyond Bestiary 2 and 3 and the rest of Kingmaker?

[Grey Mage]

Yes...

and Bidmaron, if I recall, I once knew you (in passing) from the RPGXplorer forums... hope you are doing well.

[Bidmaron]

Yes, that was a great program. I still like it better than HeroLab, but I guess I am a HeroLab convert now, as I have all the Paizo stuff over there too.

I have been here longer than the old RPGXplorer days though.

Let me check my notes on other releases....

[Bidmaron]

[QUOTE=ddavison;309895]

We are hoping to have products begin rolling out in January and then regularly from there. We have several developers spun up on those modules, while keeping most of our internal team devoted towards working on Unity. Since we haven't been through a full review process yet, we don't yet know what that process will look like and how much back and forth there will be.

The first round of products is looking like it will be the following (at least what we have targeted):
- Pathfinder Core Rules and Theme
- Bestiary 1 through 5 (with tokens and images)
- Adventure Paths (Rise of the Runelords, Skull & Shackles, Curse of the Crimson Throne, Kingmaker)

For APs, we will be looking to release adventure 1 from each series and then subsequent adventures in following months. Eventually, we will expand to cover more reference material and APs.

This was SW original post, so it sounds like Skull & Shackles, Curse of the Crimson Throne, and Bestiary 5 other than what I listed.

[Fauberoptic]

looks like Bestiary 4 is out in store, or am I crazy? lol
was there an announcement that it was release? If so I need to start looking there!