. wrote:So, we have an internet pirate selling his entire PDF range of Traveller supplements through official websites.
HermitFromPluto wrote:I can't really respond to your questions, but I find I often wonder about what impact this trend of re-releasing RPGs as PDFs will have on Collecting. Will it diminish values for instance?
. wrote:All the evidence so far seems to be that PDF release has no decernable impact on value of the hardcopy. The first official PDF I had was the Dungeon Issue #1 PDF that was given away on CD by Paizo (Wonder why we don't see that CD crop up on eBay?), and it was a damn good quality PDF for it's time. But there was no corresponding drop in price of the Dungeon Issue #1 hardcopy. And there are at least 4 different versions of the ST1 Up The Garden Path PDF available on the internet, and WoTC released the OB 3 PDF and it's still there on their website. The value of ST1 and OB 3 has not depreciated at all. Looking to more recent publications, the readily available (and continually on sale) PDFs of Ptolus and Rappan Athuk Reloaded have done nothing to stop the continuing rise in the value of those two hardcopies, and the White Dwarf Archive does not seem to have dettered people from paying £100+ for a copy of White Dwarf Issue #1 alone.Based on all the evidence I have at present, PDF release has no decernable impact on either the collectability or value of paper product.
. wrote:Yes, I agree, it's far more likely that the entire traveller authorship has come together in the past two months and decided to republish, and the whole Traveller licensee holders have granted permission for the use of their copyrights and trademarks.
. wrote:The first official PDF I had was the Dungeon Issue #1 PDF that was given away on CD by Paizo (Wonder why we don't see that CD crop up on eBay?), and it was a damn good quality PDF for it's time.
SoulCatcher78 wrote:PDFs, while a quickly growing segment of the business, don't really stack up sales wise against the hard copy of a product.
zhowar wrote:Paizo still has more than 100 of the promo CD-ROMs for sale for $1:
Mars wrote:Everyone also needs a Warduke window cling:http://paizo.com/store/sale/bitsAndPiec ... 48btpy8213
Kingofpain89 wrote:I would probably start with Marc Miller. He has slowly been releasing CD-ROMs of all of the GDW Traveller books and recently announced he would be doing the same with the material published by FASA and Gamelords. You can purchase the CD-ROMs here: http://www.farfuture.net/cdroms.htmlThe email address to contact them is at the bottom of the page.
. wrote:I guess he owns everyone's rights to publish.
Mars wrote:That may or may not be true. He could be another Outlaw Press that is pretty loose about copyrights. It seems odd that FASA would sell their rights to this stuff.
HermitFromPluto wrote:I suppose collecting RPGs is really a sub-branch of book collecting - does availability of cheap or free photocopies / PDFs impact the value of a rare book or not really?
Kingofpain89 wrote:Miller did license Traveller to Mongoose although I dont really understand why.
Mars wrote:I'm sure GDW reserved some rights for the products to be "officially approved for Traveller" but I doubt a company like FASA would give up rights to republish or their IP in developing the book.It is a similar situation to the CZ items. Gygax Games owns the IP to CZ and TLG published them etc. GG cannot simply reprint the TLG items and TLG can no longer publish the CZ items.As for Mongoose publishing Traveller 5e, that might make sense for the same reasons that Mongoose was announced to publish GG Lejendary Adventures. Mongoose also acts as a large publisher who will put out your books and get them into distribution while not taking over your system.