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Post by wyvern on Oct 20, 2023 12:03:27 GMT -9
Well, the Halloween Sale has appeared on the DriveThru RPG website and others in the group dealing with fantasy and horror games. Sadly, there seem to be no freebies anywhere this time, and they seem to have fully abandoned the old freebie hunt now.
Then again, I find the redesigned DTRPG site to be a complete mess anyway; much harder to find things and identify what's what, and see which products I've already bought. I've given them some very forthright feedback on all this previously, which they've clearly utterly ignored, so I spend far less time browsing the site now than I once used to. I'm sure I've missed huge amounts of new items as a direct result of this change, so that's really working well!
That said, I did get a handy email with link from our own Okumarts Games today, as ALL those products are in the sale (and this is what prompted me to even go to DTRPG today, hence this reminder topic!). So there are papercrafting items in the sale, if you can but find them among the listed 4,211 sale items.
Good luck!
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 20, 2023 14:17:37 GMT -9
It appears that there is no way to do Halloween Sale AND Publisher. Also, the way they have categories and sub-categories, there are many missing items. You have to wade through everything in the genre to find things and even then I know of several publishers that do not come up. ... Love, Emalyn Knapik, Customer Service, DriveThruRPG EDIT-- Buried in there is a Publisher Selection Drop-down. For Dave Okum, www.drivethrurpg.com/halloween.php?manufacturers_id=3639&filters=0_0_0_0_0_45295#selectpub
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Post by wyvern on Oct 21, 2023 4:56:31 GMT -9
Thanks for that information VK. I was using the Chrome option to go incognito for a while, but even that got infected with the new DTRPG site after a few days. It's reassuring I'm not the only one to find the new site a complete disaster. I assume they took their advice from the same idiots who thought the UK leaving the EU would be a "good idea".
Your comment about missing items confirms too it wasn't just me, as I picked up a few hardcopy Goodman Games items last week, which have the "claim your free PDF on DTRPG using this code" in them. I couldn't find two of them at all using "Goodman Games", and in the end only managed to do so by typing in the actual titles of the missing items. They really should abandon this. This was BEFORE the Halloween Sale kicked in, so it's obviously a general site fault.
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Post by wyvern on Oct 26, 2023 8:18:10 GMT -9
Update. The DTRPG newsletter came in a couple of hours ago and noted there ARE some free items on the site for Halloween. From said Newsletter: " We have some FREE Halloween Treats from some game publishers! Get a free copy of Wicked Ones, Sleepaway, Cosmic Twilight, Z-Land, and more! Check back this weekend for even more Halloween Treats!" The link they gave is this one. However, I can't seem to find a link to this page on the main site, which is a bit irritating, although as I've said before, I find their new site layout to be so atrocious, I struggle to find anything there now, and scarcely ever use it at all any more. So I may just have missed it. Fascinatingly, they seem to have put some sort of huge graphic at the base of this links page, which is showing as a blank box with the "missing image" icon for me, so maybe they can't get their own site to work either! Note that a couple of the current freebies are $20 ordinarily, so don't wait too long if they're of interest!
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Post by aleks on Oct 26, 2023 10:48:52 GMT -9
The new layout is visually appealing, but confusing, and some feature are missing...like the possibility to download more file at once in compressed zip file. And , yes, on the sales page, the pop-down menù was a must. There must be the possibility to send some feedback to DTRPG crew.
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Post by Vermin King on Oct 26, 2023 13:45:46 GMT -9
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Post by wyvern on Oct 28, 2023 5:20:45 GMT -9
Just a reminder about the DTRPG freebie "Trick or Treat" promo on currently, and to confirm the six items have been updated to a fresh set. I'm not sure when the change happened, or whether there may be another before the end of the Halloween Sale there, and there aren't quite such high-value savings on the items there now, but undoubtedly worth a look in case anything's of interest!
(Doesn't help that they don't list the dates for the Halloween Sale either, but I'm guessing it likely ends on Nov 1st?)
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Post by wyvern on Oct 30, 2023 5:18:37 GMT -9
More new free stuff on the Trick or Treat webpage again today - including the main rules for Free League's "Vaesen" RPG (ordinarily $24.99) - don't know how long these may last so, don't delay!
EDIT: A fresh DTRPG Newsletter has literally just come through, which mentions these latest freebies, and the Halloween Sale in general, only last "through Halloween", which I'm guessing means midnight US Pacific Time tomorrow? The Newsletter doesn't actually set a time, however, but whatever the case, I wouldn't wait much longer.
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