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Post by mark687 on Jul 31, 2024 15:06:41 GMT
Too late. Yes I would normally encourage it but Take Advantage of unexpected Bonus material and DL And Back Up them while you can BF Tweet Update on Bonus Short Trips/Interludes now that Subs and most Bundles have been stopped We will be reviewing these releases and their availability. I'm afraid I can't give you an update right now. Regards mark687
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 31, 2024 15:14:03 GMT
Incidentally, don't know about anyone else, but www.bigfinish.com/work-in-progress has given me a bit of reassurance that things will be sorted. When I (and, I think, a few others) joined the old BF forum from the DW thread on the Telltale Games forum, it was after they changed this for the worse and didn't fix them, and (we suspected) possibly deliberately to get rid of fans who preferred their old material. That company doesn't exist any more. The old material is getting re-released in enhanced editions. So, just goes to show.
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Post by theoncomingpenguin on Jul 31, 2024 15:46:53 GMT
I’ve also found that the 17% discount for buying 10 or more is applied as soon as something is released, despite it still having preorder pricing , so as it stands the cheapest way to buy something is to wait for it to release and then get it at preorder price with the bigger “released” multibuy savings (assuming you’re buying several things together, of course).
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Post by shallacatop on Jul 31, 2024 15:59:15 GMT
I’ve also found that the 17% discount for buying 10 or more is applied as soon as something is released, despite it still having preorder pricing , so as it stands the cheapest way to buy something is to wait for it to release and then get it at preorder price with the bigger “released” multibuy savings (assuming you’re buying several things together, of course). The issue with that is the likelihood of being able to bundle together 10 items post-release but pre-price increase is very slim. Good for anyone new to BF, but again, it begs the question of who would be paying full price for stuff if they weren’t already hooked, especially given their continued output and plenty of opportunity to jump aboard.
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Post by theoncomingpenguin on Jul 31, 2024 16:09:14 GMT
I’ve also found that the 17% discount for buying 10 or more is applied as soon as something is released, despite it still having preorder pricing , so as it stands the cheapest way to buy something is to wait for it to release and then get it at preorder price with the bigger “released” multibuy savings (assuming you’re buying several things together, of course). The issue with that is the likelihood of being able to bundle together 10 items post-release but pre-price increase is very slim. Good for anyone new to BF, but again, it begs the question of who would be paying full price for stuff if they weren’t already hooked, especially given their continued output and plenty of opportunity to jump aboard. True, but even buying 2 in that window gets you 10% off instead of 7%. Just depends on how many releases you want within the 2 or so months they stay at preorder price I suppose.
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Post by mark687 on Jul 31, 2024 16:49:50 GMT
Incidentally, don't know about anyone else, but www.bigfinish.com/work-in-progress has given me a bit of reassurance that things will be sorted. When I (and, I think, a few others) joined the old BF forum from the DW thread on the Telltale Games forum, it was after they changed this for the worse and didn't fix them, and (we suspected) possibly deliberately to get rid of fans who preferred their old material. That company doesn't exist any more. The old material is getting re-released in enhanced editions. So, just goes to show. Last Post notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/5190/list-bonus-downloads?page=4&scrollTo=374112Regards mark687
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Post by jprobins on Jul 31, 2024 17:14:51 GMT
I just attempted to make my first purchase since the advent of the new website. I found that when I click on go to checkout the screen just goes black. No way to buy anything.
I desperately want Big Finish to succeed for the selfish reason that I love their content, but I am worried at this point as to how badly they seem to be shooting themselves in the foot. They might also want to have someone take a look at the new color scheme as I believe it may actually violate US equal access laws because of its high contrast nature.
Jim
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Post by Ela on Jul 31, 2024 17:24:24 GMT
Hate to be negative but I have to agree, this has been mostly negative and frustrating. In fairness, the search engine on the site has been improved and the new discount structure would benefit the way I buy. So far, I haven't seen any evidence that the search engine on the site has been improved. The new discount structure may work better for me, remains to be seen.
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Post by Kestrel on Jul 31, 2024 17:41:03 GMT
By "new discount structure" are you referring the to new "multi-buy" thing, or something else? Also, for a moderator (maybe Ela wouldn't mind weighing in?) should we maybe have a new thread dedicated to the new site/app and move some of the posts from this thread? Doesn't quite seem like the right place for this conversation. .... .... .... .... .... Anyway, just dove into the new website. Some thoughts: - The aesthetic style is certainly more modern, but it's not any more functional than the old website (arguably less so, considering how much has been removed), so I can't really call it an improvement.
- It's very odd how they've all-but-removed the "Big Finish" branding -- only present as a very small, blink-and-you'll-miss-it icon in the upper left corner.
- Searching functionality is still broken.
- Multi-buy is predictably anti-consumer. Are they seriously making people pay extra to pre-order? Well, I guess Big Finish wouldn't be Big Finish if they weren't constantly trying to milk their ever-dwindling pod of whales.
- Yes, I am unduly proud of that metaphor, actually.
- Honestly, I am finally excited to be able to get a pseudo-discount on some of the boxsets I could never buy in bundle form, previously, owing to already owning one of the included releases. Robots, I'm looking at you!
- But I can't help but notice that the "Sales" section has been completely removed. As well as the "Big Finish Book Club," which was a great way to pick up the odd story here and there at a significant discount. That sucks.
- Oh, and the website no longer seems to recognize my account, so I can't log-in. Which is... great. Maybe there's an issue with their database, so I'm gonna wait a couple of days before trying again and, if necessary, resetting my password. (I don't really like doing that because I've gone to using auto-generated passwords, which are a real pain to update across all my devices).
Haven't checked out the new app yet. How's that work? Will I be prompted to update to directed to the iOS app store the next time I launch the old app or something?
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Post by Ela on Jul 31, 2024 17:56:10 GMT
By "new discount structure" are you referring the to new "multi-buy" thing, or something else? Also, for a moderator (maybe Ela wouldn't mind weighing in?) should we maybe have a new thread dedicated to the new site/app and move some of the posts from this thread? Doesn't quite seem like the right place for this conversation. .... .... .... .... .... Anyway, just dove into the new website. Some thoughts: - The aesthetic style is certainly more modern, but it's not any more functional than the old website (arguably less so, considering how much has been removed), so I can't really call it an improvement.
- It's very odd how they've all-but-removed the "Big Finish" branding -- only present as a very small, blink-and-you'll-miss-it icon in the upper left corner.
- Searching functionality is still broken.
- Multi-buy is predictably anti-consumer. Are they seriously making people pay extra to pre-order? Well, I guess Big Finish wouldn't be Big Finish if they weren't constantly trying to milk their ever-dwindling pod of whales.
- Yes, I am unduly proud of that metaphor, actually.
- Honestly, I am finally excited to be able to get a pseudo-discount on some of the boxsets I could never buy in bundle form, previously, owing to already owning one of the included releases. Robots, I'm looking at you!
- But I can't help but notice that the "Sales" section has been completely removed. As well as the "Big Finish Book Club," which was a great way to pick up the odd story here and there at a significant discount. That sucks.
- Oh, and the website no longer seems to recognize my account, so I can't log-in. Which is... great. Maybe there's an issue with their database, so I'm gonna wait a couple of days before trying again and, if necessary, resetting my password. (I don't really like doing that because I've gone to using auto-generated passwords, which are a real pain to update across all my devices).
Haven't checked out the new app yet. How's that work? Will I be prompted to update to directed to the iOS app store the next time I launch the old app or something?
First things first
In order to log into your new site, you have to select the "forgot password" option and recreate your old (or a new password). Contrary to the way Big Finish information expressed it, the site will not "prompt you" to select a new password. Though it will apparently inform you if you are using a password that shows up on have i been pwned? (I don't know this from personal experience, someone posted that it happened to them on social media).
Regarding your request:
Most of this thread is related to the new app, not website maintenance, so if I broke it up to create a "new site" thread, I would start from this post. We already have a dedicated thread for the app and I don't see a need to separate it from previous discussions about the app. Discussions about the updated app start here.The "downloading onto an app" thread was previously monitored by the original developer of the app, hackmodford . I don't know if he is still involved with the app. He hasn't been on this forum for quite a while.
If you had something else in mind, please explain.
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Post by Ela on Jul 31, 2024 18:10:59 GMT
Also, Kestrel, by "new discount structure" I mean the multi-buy thing. Sometimes the old bundles didn't work out for me, cause I had bought a release before BF knew they were going to make it a series. Since I already had the first item of the bundle, it would have worked out more expensive for me to buy a bundle. But I don't know, I'll have to see. I'm buying very little right now cause I still have a huge backlog of unlistened to downloads and I can't justify spending more on downloads till I listen to what I already own.
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Post by Kestrel on Jul 31, 2024 18:21:04 GMT
Gotcha'. I'm buying very little right now cause I still have a huge backlog of unlistened to downloads and I can't justify spending more on downloads till I listen to what I already own. I mentioned it in the other thread (which, indeed, I had not seen until you pointed it out), but I can definitely see myself waiting far longer in-between purchases just to snag the larger discounts. I, too, have a large backlog of unlistened-to audios, and was basically only ever buying stuff new in order to avoid the price-hikes they'd do (and are still doing? or not?) after the first month. Like right now it's looking like I'll be going from 6-7 purchases per year to 1-2, depending. EDIT: though it's possible there's stuff I'm not noticing on the new site that would change things. It still doesn't seem to be stable for me (often failing to load assets, or failing to respond entirely) so I may just wait a couple of weeks before checking again -- hopefully long enough for them to iron out all of the kinks.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Jul 31, 2024 19:02:53 GMT
One interesting discovery; I just downloaded Zaltys onto the app as its coming up in my Season 19 marathon and the Subscriber Short strip Collector’s Item appeared with it. I was never a subscriber to the MR; so is this intentional or did they screw up? maybe they are simplifying things in the transfer and not worrying retrospectively about whether the purchase was a subscription or not (and thanks for the heads up - I now have Neptune and Tweaker - unfortunately the remaining 5 are linked to releases I got from Forbidden Planet or Waterstones)
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Jul 31, 2024 19:15:16 GMT
I had a total of 4 of the odd e-mails - each for a bundle or subscription for which the first release is due later this year all are showing in my orders as "shipped" as are partially shipped orders such as Dark Galifrey My order of individual titles yet to be released is not showing, nor are my 2 recent orders for next year's releases
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Post by Ela on Jul 31, 2024 19:25:24 GMT
I'm struggling to understand why Bernice Summerfield is categorized as "other worlds" instead of "worlds of doctor who". Took me a bit to find it.
Surely Benny is in the same world as Doctor Who with significant overlap.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Jul 31, 2024 19:25:53 GMT
so far, the most annoying thing to me about the new site is it's tendency to forget that I've logged in so I either have to "go back" or login again
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Jul 31, 2024 19:33:33 GMT
The downloads section is frankly abysmal compared to the old version.
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Post by Ela on Jul 31, 2024 19:39:58 GMT
How do I find LEV2. Doctor Who: Novel Adaptations Volume 02: Damaged Goods/The Well-Mannered War in my downloads library? I've tried multiple search terms and it doesn't come up. Abysmal. Did someone say the search engine was improved? Edit: Nevermind, it came up. Not entirely sure what search terms worked, though.
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Post by The Brigadier on Jul 31, 2024 19:49:31 GMT
Temporarily pulling the dustsheets off the account to simply say 'Thank you' to all those who have posted useful information on this thread over the past few days since the announcement of the website migration. If it hadn't been for you I might have been tearing my hair out in frustration trying to navigate the changeover.
While I managed to download a number of audios over the weekend thanks to Mark's early posting on the subject on the 25th, I am according to the download library currently missing 19 downloads based on the number from the old website. Which I might be able to live with if I knew they were the freebies or excerpts, but as at the moment the ONLY way to know for sure is to scroll through 272 pages listing five downloads per page to find out...let's just say I'm not overly enthusiastic to start that. I'm hoping their 'Work in Progress' progresses the Download Library very quickly to a point where I don't have to. Time will tell.
As for the Orders....Nah, I'm not going there. I like my blood pressure to stay stable.
On the plus side, thanks to various posters on here I have finally plugged the gaps in the Short Trips Subscribers Bonuses AND the old Bonus Releases! Which means at long last I get to listen to 'The Doctor's First XI', 'The Four Doctors' and 'The Five Companions'!
Every dark cloud has a bit of a silver lining....
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Post by Ela on Jul 31, 2024 20:03:40 GMT
Temporarily pulling the dustsheets off the account to simply say 'Thank you' to all those who have posted useful information on this thread over the past few days since the announcement of the website migration. If it hadn't been for you I might have been tearing my hair out in frustration trying to navigate the changeover. While I managed to download a number of audios over the weekend thanks to Mark's early posting on the subject on the 25th, I am according to the download library currently missing 19 downloads based on the number from the old website. Which I might be able to live with if I knew they were the freebies or excerpts, but as at the moment the ONLY way to know for sure is to scroll through 272 pages listing five downloads per page to find out...let's just say I'm not overly enthusiastic to start that. I'm hoping their 'Work in Progress' progresses the Download Library very quickly to a point where I don't have to. Time will tell. As for the Orders....Nah, I'm not going there. I like my blood pressure to stay stable. On the plus side, thanks to various posters on here I have finally plugged the gaps in the Short Trips Subscribers Bonuses AND the old Bonus Releases! Which means at long last I get to listen to 'The Doctor's First XI', 'The Four Doctors' and 'The Five Companions'! Every dark cloud has a bit of a silver lining.... Nice to see you, Brig!
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