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Buying multiple licenses

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This is a copy of what I sent in an email to Lone Wolf. Figured I'd post it here to see if I could get answers from others as well.

I would like to go ahead and purchase several licenses but before I do, I would like to confirm some things and perhaps get clarification on the process. I've read through it all but find several aspects a little bit confusing, especially in how to implement multiple license purchases.

To explain, it is my understanding that I can purchase Hero Lab for $29.99, the Pathfinder Classic Pack for $29.99, and two additional licenses for $10 each. This would be a total of four licenses and would enable the use of Hero Lab and the materials from the Classic Pack to be used on four separate computers. This is something I need to confirm first of all.

The second part is my confusion over how to do this as there seems to be a point where it can be easily messed up. I'm a bit nervous about doing it and then finding out I've stuffed up the process and can no longer do it as intended. Is there a way to get clarification on how one adds licenses to initial purchases and activates them on four different computers?

I'm also assuming that it's legal to have each license owned by four separate individuals. The idea being that our group wishes to split the costs. Is that OK?
 
To add-on to Mathia's post, if you wanted to purchase Hero Lab to have access to the Pathfinder Game system you would pay:

$29.99 for Hero Lab + one game system of your choice (Pathfinder)
+$X.XX for additional data packages
+$10 for each additional secondary license, which allows your to put Hero Lab on other computers you own, but not another person's computer

If you wanted to use Hero Lab for another game system down the line, such as Shadowrun, Savage Worlds, or another system we support, it would be an additional $20.00 for the base game system.

But as Mathias said, it is against our licensing agreement for multiple individuals to share a Hero Lab account, even if they're using separate secondary license codes.
 
Ah, bummer. That pretty much means we can't get it at all. Nobody wants to go against the license but at the same time, none of us are in a position to pay $60 each for it. Oh well, no sale :(
 
Not sure where you got $60.00 from. You get a free game system when you first start up HL. But its $20.00 for each other additional game system.

For instance, I have D20 (free) as my main game system, but I have also purchased Shadowrun ($20.00) and Pathfinder ($20.00)

I also have 3 licenses I use for my different machines. The first 2 licenses come with the product, But I purchased a third license for $10.00.
 
chiefweasel said:
Not sure where you got $60.00 from. You get a free game system when you first start up HL. But its $20.00 for each other additional game system.
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When you say "free game system" does that include everything for Pathfinder?

I was under the impression that it's just the very basics. Hence we'd want to get the Classic Pack in order to get the entirety of the Pathfinder system.
 
Thank Dog said:
When you say "free game system" does that include everything for Pathfinder?

I was under the impression that it's just the very basics. Hence we'd want to get the Classic Pack in order to get the entirety of the Pathfinder system.
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You get the core rule book data plus access to adventure path PLAYER data only anything else Bestiaries, APG, UC, UM etc. Are paid for additions.
 
Thank Dog in this case the best way to save money would be buy one copy activate the secondary license put that on a separate computer and allow your players to remotely access their character information before and after each session. Depending on group size this may or may not be a viable solution.
 
Dervish said:
Thank Dog in this case the best way to save money would be buy one copy activate the secondary license put that on a separate computer and allow your players to remotely access their character information before and after each session. Depending on group size this may or may not be a viable solution.
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I can't afford to pay it myself. The only way I could was to split the cost.
 
Well, I'd like to thank you for being an honorable sort and not violating the agreement even though it means forstalling the purchase. I've been there man, having to weigh every penny in a tight month.

Who knows, perhaps in the future you'll have a little money to spare. Or, with the holidays coming up it might be worth dropping hints to friends and family about HL as a possible gift.

Anyway, thanks again!
 
Ya total cost for all Pathfinder addons is well over $100, prolly closer to $150 or $175 by now. For those of us who were able to get the add ons as they came out, it was just a few bucks each month, but having to buy them all now is a pain.
 
Yeah, this. Buying Hero Lab and just the packages covered in the PRD (minus the Bestiaries) runs just short of $100, and that's without buying any of the actual books.

Edited to add: Apropos of nothing except that Pathfinder is an expensive hobby. The other games I've played/run with Hero Lab have all run $40 or less for everything, including the core rules.
 
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chiefweasel said:
Ya total cost for all Pathfinder addons is well over $100, prolly closer to $150 or $175 by now. For those of us who were able to get the add ons as they came out, it was just a few bucks each month, but having to buy them all now is a pain.
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Yup, it is pricey. If you're an all-or-nothing kind of person and can't afford HL with any given month's leftover cash, it's never a bad time to put together a budget and start saving toward goals. Hero Lab is well worth the cost. You can tell it's a professionally-developed and managed product. All that hard work shows, but it does mean that one has to pay for it just like most other software of a similar caliber.
 
Part of why I assumed we could split license costs was because DDI did a similar thing with the intent being that groups could buy in. $20 each versus $60 each is a big difference, especially when all the material is online already and PCGen can do much the same thing as Hero Lab. Now none of us will be buying it at all.

I mainly wanted it so that I could use it on my iPad :(
 
Since you are saying 60 dollars i am assuming you were thinking buying the original license and the beastiaries or two full licenses is that the case ?
 
Dervish said:
Since you are saying 60 dollars i am assuming you were thinking buying the original license and the beastiaries or two full licenses is that the case ?
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I just did a proper read-through of what you get in the Classic Bundle and realised that it's not even half of the material for creating characters. We would need another $40 just to create characters for our games without limitations.

That would put the total required purchase into the hundreds of dollars just for one person.

Yeah, think I'll stick with PCgen. For what amounts to a glorified front-end for a database, those prices are insane.
 
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