Typical WotC, it looks good, but is worse now that they "fixed" it, but hey we have favorites in the marketplace now. That is something we can all check off of the most needed changes to DDB list.
Of all of the places to spend time changing the site this is what they chose and it is less functional than the original. SMH
I will not be using the market place until they give us back piecemeal purchase and credit for them towards the total price of the books for peice meal purchases.
This is just bad design. It is something that should be in any marketplace of this type. Especially since it was a feature in the previous version. Slick/flashy UI does not excuse bad design. Hasbro strike again
This is just bad design. It is something that should be in any marketplace of this type. Especially since it was a feature in the previous version. Slick/flashy UI does not excuse bad design. Hasbro strike again
See people keep trying to blame Hasbro for this when it has always been a WotC issue. I can only think of one (1) digital platform or service that WotC has ever released that wasn't roundly criticized by its userbase for being poorly designed or a glitchy mess. And that service died the stupidest death because it was built on the back of Microsoft Silverlight and died when support for Silverlight went away.
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"The mongoose blew out its candle and was asleep in bed before the room went dark." —Llanowar fable
The old layout was much more obvious about displaying whether you have a particular title or content already as it was listed immediately under the title, and you could see a much more comprehensive list at once. I realize that you can now see that you own a title already when viewing the product, but it's small text under the ADD TO CART BUTTON.
This feels underhanded and dodgy for a company I do like. I would recommend including in the filter options a way to include/exclude content that you already own. @WOTC Give us reasons to promote DDB, and continue to push people to the service, not feel mislead. This UI update, while it looks flashy, is a step backwards in functionality.
Not a fan of the new marketplace. The old one was bad, this is worse.
What I want:
No ads
Lots of information on the screen
Obvious what I already own, or what's currently in the cart
Sortable and filterable
All available products in one table
To me, a tabular format with columns of title, publication date, source type, already owned, in cart, publisher and maybe a few more columns would be ideal.
I would be able to sort and filter, for instance, filter to just what I don't own.
Small pictures, if you must, maybe a quarter of the size as in the Sources lists.
Critique of the marketplace:
* Ad banner at top -- useless -- it's just eye junk and it's taking up half the screen
* New arrivals -- useless -- how new? It doesn't say. What it's showing right now . . . isn't new. Also, taking up half the screen.
* Another ad banner -- useless -- "featured and recommended" - don't care; "adventure with maps" - wow, like Maps, but why here?; "discover partnered content - don't care
* Trending / Best Sellers - useless - don't care
* New Players / Advanced Players / Dungeon Masters -- useless - don't care
I find that I can't find the things I don't own easily so I can't see what I need/want to buy next.
the fact that it only shows 4 books at a time means that navigating the site is very much slower with no guarantee of finding something I might like.
also the site market site is much darker, I find this not as pleasant to read, maybe instead offer a dark or light mode as an option.
setting up a beginner/ advanced/ dm is nice but it rather than have a tab in the middle of the screen put it up by the filters and have the value stored so that you never have to click it again.
I think that this should have been trialed for a week and then, get feed back. I understand that you want a new site ready for when the new books come what you had before was really very good and maybe needed some more tweaking around 3rd party stuff other than that it was very good. the marketplace does not keep style with the rest of the site currently.
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The old version would show you what you were missing.
I wish the new version had at least an option to hide what was already owned.
Let the Mists surround you...
Typical WotC, it looks good, but is worse now that they "fixed" it, but hey we have favorites in the marketplace now. That is something we can all check off of the most needed changes to DDB list.
Of all of the places to spend time changing the site this is what they chose and it is less functional than the original. SMH
I will not be using the market place until they give us back piecemeal purchase and credit for them towards the total price of the books for peice meal purchases.
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
Give it time. I'm sure there are plenty of QoL updates that will flow in as the kinks get worked out.
I wonder if its prepping for the pivot to 2024 D&D edition. People might not appreciate being sold older edition material?
It would be great to add it as a filter when you filter by digital versions.
This is just bad design. It is something that should be in any marketplace of this type. Especially since it was a feature in the previous version. Slick/flashy UI does not excuse bad design. Hasbro strike again
See people keep trying to blame Hasbro for this when it has always been a WotC issue. I can only think of one (1) digital platform or service that WotC has ever released that wasn't roundly criticized by its userbase for being poorly designed or a glitchy mess. And that service died the stupidest death because it was built on the back of Microsoft Silverlight and died when support for Silverlight went away.
I was going to post this exact thing as well.
The old layout was much more obvious about displaying whether you have a particular title or content already as it was listed immediately under the title, and you could see a much more comprehensive list at once. I realize that you can now see that you own a title already when viewing the product, but it's small text under the ADD TO CART BUTTON.
This feels underhanded and dodgy for a company I do like. I would recommend including in the filter options a way to include/exclude content that you already own.
@WOTC Give us reasons to promote DDB, and continue to push people to the service, not feel mislead. This UI update, while it looks flashy, is a step backwards in functionality.
Not a fan of the new marketplace. The old one was bad, this is worse.
What I want:
To me, a tabular format with columns of title, publication date, source type, already owned, in cart, publisher and maybe a few more columns would be ideal.
I would be able to sort and filter, for instance, filter to just what I don't own.
Small pictures, if you must, maybe a quarter of the size as in the Sources lists.
Critique of the marketplace:
* Ad banner at top -- useless -- it's just eye junk and it's taking up half the screen
* New arrivals -- useless -- how new? It doesn't say. What it's showing right now . . . isn't new. Also, taking up half the screen.
* Another ad banner -- useless -- "featured and recommended" - don't care; "adventure with maps" - wow, like Maps, but why here?; "discover partnered content - don't care
* Trending / Best Sellers - useless - don't care
* New Players / Advanced Players / Dungeon Masters -- useless - don't care
Double-fail.
If I look at a monster, and it says:
and then I click the link to take me to the marketplace, the link is broken.
So . . . not only did you make Marketplace worse, you invalidated the function that takes people who want to buy something to that thing.
I find that I can't find the things I don't own easily so I can't see what I need/want to buy next.
the fact that it only shows 4 books at a time means that navigating the site is very much slower with no guarantee of finding something I might like.
also the site market site is much darker, I find this not as pleasant to read, maybe instead offer a dark or light mode as an option.
setting up a beginner/ advanced/ dm is nice but it rather than have a tab in the middle of the screen put it up by the filters and have the value stored so that you never have to click it again.
I think that this should have been trialed for a week and then, get feed back. I understand that you want a new site ready for when the new books come what you had before was really very good and maybe needed some more tweaking around 3rd party stuff other than that it was very good. the marketplace does not keep style with the rest of the site currently.