There are very few shopping experiences as start-to-finish awful as trying to purchase a gift certificate for…

There are very few shopping experiences as start-to-finish awful as trying to purchase a gift certificate for…

There are very few shopping experiences as start-to-finish awful as trying to purchase a gift certificate for someone from DriveThru.

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  15. Don’t get me started on the mobile interface! For some reason, no matter what google link or selected, , it always sends me to “The Great Phlogiston Debate” DTRPG page! You can choose “show desktop version” of course.

    Go ahead, try it. From a mobile device, search for “Nightmares Underneath” and then pick the first DTRPG link that shows up.

  16. Don’t get me started on the mobile interface! For some reason, no matter what google link or selected, , it always sends me to “The Great Phlogiston Debate” DTRPG page! You can choose “show desktop version” of course.

    Go ahead, try it. From a mobile device, search for “Nightmares Underneath” and then pick the first DTRPG link that shows up.

  21. I recently tried to find a pdf on the mobile version of DriveThruRPG during a game to answer a rules question. It was ridiculous. the links literally go to anything other then what you want. Had to give up.

  22. I recently tried to find a pdf on the mobile version of DriveThruRPG during a game to answer a rules question. It was ridiculous. the links literally go to anything other then what you want. Had to give up.

  25. It’s impressive how bad it is! I’ve actually noted that if one aspect of it were terrible, then it would just be an annoyance, but so much of it’s bad that I have to think someone is playing an intricate joke on us.

  26. It’s impressive how bad it is! I’ve actually noted that if one aspect of it were terrible, then it would just be an annoyance, but so much of it’s bad that I have to think someone is playing an intricate joke on us.

  35. Yochai Gal​ Slade Stolar​ sorry if the parody went over my head. When you share a frustration with your friends and several of them step in to tell you how their frustrations were worse than yours, it usually doesn’t feel very good. I said it was “almost hilarious” because the frustration Jason Cordova​ shared was so specific and yet many still felt the need to one-up it. I bet many of you were joking but…

  36. Yochai Gal​ Slade Stolar​ sorry if the parody went over my head. When you share a frustration with your friends and several of them step in to tell you how their frustrations were worse than yours, it usually doesn’t feel very good. I said it was “almost hilarious” because the frustration Jason Cordova​ shared was so specific and yet many still felt the need to one-up it. I bet many of you were joking but…

  43. Michael G. Barford I have also been trying to pay attention to it, in all circles!

    My comment was a play on how Drivethru and RPGNow are the same site, and no one seems to know why!

  44. Michael G. Barford I have also been trying to pay attention to it, in all circles!

    My comment was a play on how Drivethru and RPGNow are the same site, and no one seems to know why!

  45. Yochai Gal if helpful… in short it’s a bunch of dated tech that was cobbled together to a single interface.

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    An aged Redit post gives a bit more insight:

    Worked like this:

    RPGNow was a PDF store which opened in 2001. The focus was more on indie publishing, mostly because it was cheaper for smaller companies to make PDFs than to produce physical books. So that’s what they became known for.

    DriveThruRPG was a PDF store started a few years later (2004) by the (now former) co-owners of White Wolf. It was a division of Publisher Services Inc.. Using their PSI connections, they were able to put more of their focus on the big names. White Wolf (obviously), WotC, Palladium, Steve Jackson, etc. Although they had some smaller-press releases, the big stuff is what they became known for.

    At some point PSI spun DriveThruRPG off into its own thing, but I don’t recall when. In 2007-ish, DTRPG and RPGNow decided to merge, as OneBookShelf. All their products got merged into DTRPG’s database, and both sites were redesigned. DTRPG’s redesign was largely cosmetic; the backend was the same. RPGNow was completely overhauled to use DTRPG’s backend (osCommerce).

    Now the contents of both sites are the same, but the presentation is different. If you visit DriveThruRPG, the emphasis is still on the bigger names (their slogan: “The Largest RPG Download Store”). If you visit RPGNow, the emphasis is still on small press products (“The Leading Source for Indie RPGs”). If you view the list of Hottest Products in the right-hand sidebar on each site, you’ll see a completely different list. Total sales are certainly tracked, but they also track sales per storefront.

    So: originally competitors, now the same company, but directed to different parts of the market based on their respective legacies. For example, I can link to the same product on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow using the same product ID.

    Your DTRPG login should work on RPGNow and vice versa. If it doesn’t for some reason, please contact them to let them know.

    reddit.com – What’s the difference between RPGNow and DriveThruRPG? : rpg

    reddit.com – reddit: the front page of the internet

  46. Yochai Gal if helpful… in short it’s a bunch of dated tech that was cobbled together to a single interface.

    —�—

    An aged Redit post gives a bit more insight:

    Worked like this:

    RPGNow was a PDF store which opened in 2001. The focus was more on indie publishing, mostly because it was cheaper for smaller companies to make PDFs than to produce physical books. So that’s what they became known for.

    DriveThruRPG was a PDF store started a few years later (2004) by the (now former) co-owners of White Wolf. It was a division of Publisher Services Inc.. Using their PSI connections, they were able to put more of their focus on the big names. White Wolf (obviously), WotC, Palladium, Steve Jackson, etc. Although they had some smaller-press releases, the big stuff is what they became known for.

    At some point PSI spun DriveThruRPG off into its own thing, but I don’t recall when. In 2007-ish, DTRPG and RPGNow decided to merge, as OneBookShelf. All their products got merged into DTRPG’s database, and both sites were redesigned. DTRPG’s redesign was largely cosmetic; the backend was the same. RPGNow was completely overhauled to use DTRPG’s backend (osCommerce).

    Now the contents of both sites are the same, but the presentation is different. If you visit DriveThruRPG, the emphasis is still on the bigger names (their slogan: “The Largest RPG Download Store”). If you visit RPGNow, the emphasis is still on small press products (“The Leading Source for Indie RPGs”). If you view the list of Hottest Products in the right-hand sidebar on each site, you’ll see a completely different list. Total sales are certainly tracked, but they also track sales per storefront.

    So: originally competitors, now the same company, but directed to different parts of the market based on their respective legacies. For example, I can link to the same product on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow using the same product ID.

    Your DTRPG login should work on RPGNow and vice versa. If it doesn’t for some reason, please contact them to let them know.

    reddit.com – What’s the difference between RPGNow and DriveThruRPG? : rpg

    reddit.com – reddit: the front page of the internet

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