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Post by Digi on Feb 21, 2018 22:01:20 GMT
No... I own every title in the Monthly Range, but a great many of them were purchased piecemeal (ie I started out only wanting to buy McGann stories, then expanded to McCoy, etc). So I never did the subscription option, just picked them all up either by doing that or through sales. Now there appears to be no way of buying The Four Doctors short of paying full price for six releases I already have. If you get a sub with Demons of Red Lodge you get access to the subscriber bonus content that goes with it. That's script and extended extras, The Devil's Whisper, The Four Doctors MP3 and audiobook options, Four Doctors script and extended extras and Little Drummer Boy (mp3 and audiobook, now available for general purchase on download). Until the sale ends you can get a six month sub for the sale price. I got a download sub from Magic Mousetrap to Paper Cuts to pick up the subscriber exclusives. $30 NZ, $5 for each story. For $30 The Four Doctors could be in your download folder. Are you sure? The post I quoted above indicates that the subscriber bonus is NOT included in this sale price. I was hoping it would be, as I’d be quite happy to (effectively) pay $30 for it, but that post says it’s not included.
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Post by omega on Feb 21, 2018 22:11:14 GMT
If you get a sub with Demons of Red Lodge you get access to the subscriber bonus content that goes with it. That's script and extended extras, The Devil's Whisper, The Four Doctors MP3 and audiobook options, Four Doctors script and extended extras and Little Drummer Boy (mp3 and audiobook, now available for general purchase on download). Until the sale ends you can get a six month sub for the sale price. I got a download sub from Magic Mousetrap to Paper Cuts to pick up the subscriber exclusives. $30 NZ, $5 for each story. For $30 The Four Doctors could be in your download folder. Are you sure? The post I quoted above indicates that the subscriber bonus is NOT included in this sale price. I was hoping it would be, as I’d be quite happy to (effectively) pay $30 for it, but that post says it’s not included. Actually: However, the mp3 download version of the annual bonus story IS included, attached to the December MR release as an extra in your download account. So if your special offer sub includes a December MR release, you will get that year's subscriber bonus story as a free download, but not as a CD. (When I bought a special offer sub, the purchase process didn't make any mention of the bonus release, but it was there as a download when I looked.)
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Post by number13 on Feb 21, 2018 23:06:05 GMT
If you get a sub with Demons of Red Lodge you get access to the subscriber bonus content that goes with it. That's script and extended extras, The Devil's Whisper, The Four Doctors MP3 and audiobook options, Four Doctors script and extended extras and Little Drummer Boy (mp3 and audiobook, now available for general purchase on download). Until the sale ends you can get a six month sub for the sale price. I got a download sub from Magic Mousetrap to Paper Cuts to pick up the subscriber exclusives. $30 NZ, $5 for each story. For $30 The Four Doctors could be in your download folder. Are you sure? The post I quoted above indicates that the subscriber bonus is NOT included in this sale price. I was hoping it would be, as I’d be quite happy to (effectively) pay $30 for it, but that post says it’s not included. Not included as a CD - but when I bought a CD special offer sub including 'Plague of the Daleks' I did get 'An Earthly Child' (that year's Sub Bonus story) as a free download attached to 'Plague' in my DL account. Which came as a pleasant surprise.
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Post by Digi on Feb 21, 2018 23:47:51 GMT
Oh colour me intrigued - Big Finish has changed the terms for acquiring The Four Doctors. If you look at its product page, it now says: And I went and checked: if you do any (12) subscription, you can now select it as your subscription bonus - I tried it starting at MR240 (where my subscription ends) and I was able to select it as my bonus option. Awesome
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Post by omega on Feb 21, 2018 23:57:54 GMT
Oh colour me intrigued - Big Finish has changed the terms for acquiring The Four Doctors. If you look at its product page, it now says: And I went and checked: if you do any (12) subscription, you can now select it as your subscription bonus - I tried it starting at MR240 (where my subscription ends) and I was able to select it as my bonus option. Awesome After the May Day sale five years ago Big Finish said they wouldn't discount subscriptions. They did so for this sale. Enjoy The Four Doctors.
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Post by Whovitt on Feb 22, 2018 1:00:01 GMT
Oh colour me intrigued - Big Finish has changed the terms for acquiring The Four Doctors. If you look at its product page, it now says: And I went and checked: if you do any (12) subscription, you can now select it as your subscription bonus - I tried it starting at MR240 (where my subscription ends) and I was able to select it as my bonus option. Awesome That's actually been a thing for a long time I did it back in 2015 (Using an 'Early Years' Sub)
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Post by number13 on Feb 22, 2018 1:18:56 GMT
Oh colour me intrigued - Big Finish has changed the terms for acquiring The Four Doctors. If you look at its product page, it now says: And I went and checked: if you do any (12) subscription, you can now select it as your subscription bonus - I tried it starting at MR240 (where my subscription ends) and I was able to select it as my bonus option. Awesome After the May Day sale five years ago Big Finish said they wouldn't discount subscriptions. They did so for this sale. Enjoy The Four Doctors. And they discounted subs (and everything) in the Great October 10% Sale of 2017, thanks to which I'm MR subbed well into 2019. An offer I couldn't refuse!
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 22, 2018 1:42:11 GMT
After the May Day sale five years ago Big Finish said they wouldn't discount subscriptions. They did so for this sale. Enjoy The Four Doctors. And they discounted subs (and everything) in the Great October 10% Sale of 2017, thanks to which I'm MR subbed well into 2019. An offer I couldn't refuse! Oh man but there was an uproar aka extreme whining after that May Day sale. Poor Paul Spragg was having to apologize for Big Finish having a huge sale. The sense of entitlement displayed some vocal BF "supporters" was disgusting.
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Post by omega on Feb 22, 2018 1:58:49 GMT
And they discounted subs (and everything) in the Great October 10% Sale of 2017, thanks to which I'm MR subbed well into 2019. An offer I couldn't refuse! Oh man but there was an uproar aka extreme whining after that May Day sale. Poor Paul Spragg was having to apologize for Big Finish having a huge sale. The sense of entitlement displayed some vocal BF "supporters" was disgusting. Exactly why they said they wouldn't discount subscriptions anymore.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Feb 22, 2018 2:12:10 GMT
Oh man but there was an uproar aka extreme whining after that May Day sale. Poor Paul Spragg was having to apologize for Big Finish having a huge sale. The sense of entitlement displayed some vocal BF "supporters" was disgusting. Exactly why they said they wouldn't discount subscriptions anymore. And I was glad to see that they eventually moved past it.
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Post by Digi on Feb 22, 2018 2:47:19 GMT
Oh colour me intrigued - Big Finish has changed the terms for acquiring The Four Doctors. If you look at its product page, it now says: And I went and checked: if you do any (12) subscription, you can now select it as your subscription bonus - I tried it starting at MR240 (where my subscription ends) and I was able to select it as my bonus option. Awesome That's actually been a thing for a long time I did it back in 2015 (Using an 'Early Years' Sub) I swear I've been on the Four Docs page sometime in the last couple of months and it still required your sub to include Demons of Red Lodge. Either way, glad that's no longer the case!
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Post by omega on Feb 22, 2018 3:11:29 GMT
That's actually been a thing for a long time I did it back in 2015 (Using an 'Early Years' Sub) I swear I've been on the Four Docs page sometime in the last couple of months and it still required your sub to include Demons of Red Lodge. Either way, glad that's no longer the case! I got The Five Companions CD as the free gift in a sub a few years ago.
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Post by Whovitt on Feb 22, 2018 8:15:04 GMT
I swear I've been on the Four Docs page sometime in the last couple of months and it still required your sub to include Demons of Red Lodge. Either way, glad that's no longer the case! I got The Five Companions CD as the free gift in a sub a few years ago. Oh yes, I should have mentioned, I got two Early Years subs at the same time and chose both The Four Doctors and The Five Companions on the same day (I believe it was August 2015)
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Post by themeddlingmonk on Feb 22, 2018 8:19:37 GMT
I got The Five Companions CD as the free gift in a sub a few years ago. Oh yes, I should have mentioned, I got two Early Years subs at the same time and chose both The Four Doctors and The Five Companions on the same day (I believe it was August 2015) I thought you only get a download with the early adventures sub.
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Post by Whovitt on Feb 22, 2018 8:21:56 GMT
Oh yes, I should have mentioned, I got two Early Years subs at the same time and chose both The Four Doctors and The Five Companions on the same day (I believe it was August 2015) I thought you only get a download with the early adventures sub. Yes, you do. Hm, maybe I've misunderstood the contexts here... Download sub = download Bonus Release ( Four Docs/ Five Comps). CD sub doesn't necessarily mean CD Bonus Releases. Is that what we're getting at? If so, then maybe I'm wrong. Sorry for confusing people
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Post by omega on Feb 22, 2018 8:23:27 GMT
I got The Five Companions CD as the free gift in a sub a few years ago. Oh yes, I should have mentioned, I got two Early Years subs at the same time and chose both The Four Doctors and The Five Companions on the same day (I believe it was August 2015) Five Companions was for a CD sub of Patient Zero through to Legend of the Cybermen. I got a download sub a couple of years ago for Whispering Forest through to Demons of Red Lodge, so that scored me The Four Doctors, as well as the script and extended extras. I think an interesting thing to do for subscriber exclusives is early drafts of the story, assuming the writer is fine with people getting that. More than anything, it'd provide some insight into how the story and character developed,as well as what didn't make the final cut. If the writers save the various drafts it might be doable.
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Post by omega on Feb 22, 2018 8:27:09 GMT
Oh yes, I should have mentioned, I got two Early Years subs at the same time and chose both The Four Doctors and The Five Companions on the same day (I believe it was August 2015) I thought you only get a download with the early adventures sub. If there's a download option, yes. The Benny single releases still show up, as do the Iris series 1 CDs, so presumably you're sent a CD of whichever title you choose from there.
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Post by number13 on Feb 22, 2018 8:47:19 GMT
I thought you only get a download with the early adventures sub. Yes, you do. Hm, maybe I've misunderstood the contexts here... Download sub = download Bonus Release ( Four Docs/ Five Comps). CD sub doesn't necessarily mean CD Bonus Releases. Is that what we're getting at? If so, then maybe I'm wrong. Sorry for confusing people CD sub does normally always mean CD bonus release(s). It's just the discounted subs for this special offer which are different. You still get the annual bonus title as a download only even if you bought CDs, if your special offer sub includes a December MR release. It'll all be academic in 3.25 hours anyway, then we can forget about it until next year's MR sale....
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