Now that it's been over a year since the marketplace revamp, and it's actually starting to fill with a decent amount of third-party content... I have to say: actually USING or FINDING something you want on this new marketplace page is a miserable experience. - Most of the page is eaten up by cover art so there's only 3 items per row that you have to scroll down past; and there's no option for a condensed or list view - The categories of "rule books", "rules expansions", "campaign settings" and "adventures" are extremely broad, and I can think of a number of books that could arguably be placed into multiple. - There's two different ways to access each of those categories from the same menu bar - There's zero indication of whether or not you already own a given peice of content without clicking on the "quick view" individually; repeat for an entire page - Despite the site OBVIOUSLY having a flag for things you already own; there's no way to show/hide those items - Likewise; there's no easy way to tell what you might well be buying in said content without going to the page directly - If a product has multiple options (Digital, physical, or both); the site defaults to the most expensive one - The "everything else" section only allows sorting via publisher and "digital" and "physical": no categories of any sort... and most of its first page is full of content for the functionally dead Sigil - And of course; no a la carte purchasing... unless a part of something is cut out and sold on its own
That's not even touching on the nonsensical system that is now used to access "free content" through the store; requiring you to check out with a payment method anyway.
Now that it's been over a year since the marketplace revamp, and it's actually starting to fill with a decent amount of third-party content... I have to say: actually USING or FINDING something you want on this new marketplace page is a miserable experience.
- Most of the page is eaten up by cover art so there's only 3 items per row that you have to scroll down past; and there's no option for a condensed or list view
- The categories of "rule books", "rules expansions", "campaign settings" and "adventures" are extremely broad, and I can think of a number of books that could arguably be placed into multiple.
- There's two different ways to access each of those categories from the same menu bar
- There's zero indication of whether or not you already own a given peice of content without clicking on the "quick view" individually; repeat for an entire page
- Despite the site OBVIOUSLY having a flag for things you already own; there's no way to show/hide those items
- Likewise; there's no easy way to tell what you might well be buying in said content without going to the page directly
- If a product has multiple options (Digital, physical, or both); the site defaults to the most expensive one
- The "everything else" section only allows sorting via publisher and "digital" and "physical": no categories of any sort... and most of its first page is full of content for the functionally dead Sigil
- And of course; no a la carte purchasing... unless a part of something is cut out and sold on its own
That's not even touching on the nonsensical system that is now used to access "free content" through the store; requiring you to check out with a payment method anyway.
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// I am Arenlor
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