Paizo has stated that their reason for not offering those in between PDFs had something to do with complexities in licensing or something to that effect.
Can someone at WotC please clarify the situation and begin a process permitting Paizo to sell Dungeon Magazine Issues #140-150 and Dragon Magazine Issues #346-359 as PDFs?
have you tried sending anything to wotc customer service? maybe what's needed is a number of people to make those inquiries before someone thinks that would be a great idea... heck i don't think i would mind paying for them from the wizards website, they'll be set up to take money in a couple months anyways.
i know the compilation cd's were rather popular as i always saw their spot on game shelves being empty, i was just unhappy that they never had one for dungeon.
meh, maybe i'll fire off an e-mail to customer service when i get home from work, i'm guessing it can't hurt, though it might not help in this case either.
If a similar Dungeon Archive was marketed, I'd preorder today regardless of price.
Paizo still sells Dragon and Dungeon Magazines published during their licensing term in PDF format as permitted by WotC. Unfortunately, they are only offering up to Dragon #345 and Dungeon #139 in PDF format. There are a significant number of fans of the magazine that would like to collect the final print issues in PDF format for various reasons (e.g. - compiling Campaign Workbook articles, Eberron articles, culling statblocks, organizing Class Acts material, etc.).
Paizo has stated that their reason for not offering those in between PDFs had something to do with complexities in licensing or something to that effect.
Can someone at WotC please clarify the situation and begin a process permitting Paizo to sell Dungeon Magazine Issues #140-150 and Dragon Magazine Issues #346-359 as PDFs?
If you can find a copy on amazon or other retailer, one very useful product is the Dragon Magazine Archive. I forget whether it has the first 220 or the first 250 issues of dragon, but it is an excellent resource to have.
If a similar Dungeon Archive was marketed, I'd preorder today regardless of price.
1-250
Plus the The Strategic Review
Still, it would be nice if WotC let them sell the pdfs given the demand for them. It would have also been nice if WotC had let them print a compiled Age of Worms AP book, but that's a pipe dream at this point.
As I understand it, Paizo can only sell pdf copies for those magazines that no longer have print backstock to sell first. However I might also be utterly wrong on that point, so don't take my word as gospel.
No they corrected and clarified that. You can find some issues available in both print and PDF format. I wish they had those options during their subscription runs. I would have subscribed to the PDFs instead.
I got some clarification from Lisa Stevens at Paizo.
With regards to badgering Wizards, I have been, but it's no use badgering Wizards to extend a limited license to Paizo if producing those PDFs is not in Paizo's interest.
Trust me, it would totally be in Paizo's best interests to be able to produce those PDFs. Totally. I would do it in a heartbeat if I had the rights to do so. But I don't and I don't anticipate that Wizards is going to let me, even if there is a loud outcry from customers. They just don't want to make more stuff available that doesn't support 4e.
-Lisa
I got some clarification from Lisa Stevens at Paizo.
Color me even more jaded about WotC now. Damn.
Color me even more jaded about WotC now. Damn.
Well, we don't know if that's a presumption on her behalf or if that was told to her specifically with respect to the PDFs in question.
Well, we don't know if that's a presumption on her behalf or if that was told to her specifically with respect to the PDFs in question.
Well we do know that WotC has not complied most of the 3.5 ezines, before transition to 4th. The last word we had on that officially was that they would be compiled soon. "Soon" for those editions appears to be a very long time now.