It is really annoying to have to manually go through each one to make sure it lists it as "You own this digital product", instead of going and checking to see if something new has shown up.
For some reason the Essentials Kit adventures do not list themselves as products I own, even though I bought them, and can access them through the normal menu system. When viewing their marketplace page, they are the only ones that don't say "You own this digital product" under the "ADD TO CART" button.
Either way, it was nice to be able to go to the marketplace and click "Adventures" and "Sourcebooks" and quickly see if there was a new book, and then I could decide whether or not I wanted to buy it.
By Elminster's beard, yes please. This needs to be a default feature of any marketplace like this. I am also annoyed about no longer being able to buy just what i want from a book. Hasbro strikes again...
Agreed. This is super sneaky. How many people are going to purchase something twice because they own so many books (I am looking at myself right now) and cannot remember if they got THIS one? How is removing the "you already own this" a feature or improvement?
As someone who was thinking about updating (buying the books I don't own), I have now decided to wait until this is fixed. I can literally add to cart books I already own and head into the checkout without it indicating that I own them--I tested this out and was disturbed to find this out.
I won't be purchasing anything until the marketplace automatically shows what content I already own and clearly distinguishes it from the new content.
I've said it a few times now: but the fact that this feature wasn't in at launch of the "new and improved" storefront is very telling if you know anything about how companies tend to operate when fishing for extra cash. Consider for a moment that: not only does the site clearly already have access to the list of what you own... because it TELLS you... in the smallest font on the entire screen... and only if you click on an individual item; so clearly the "tag" already exists. But you also have to contact customer support via an entirely different website and with an entirely different account in order to GET the associated discount for things you "partially" own. Even free-to-play games like League of Legends let you sort its store front by "things I already own". And that's because this is deliberate: the same way subscription services make actually cancelling the subscription take a dozen different steps, when you could always just pay the 10 dollars to keep it another month and save that hassle! ...the hassle they made be there in the first place... It's designed to make "oh just buy it again!" the path of least resistance; not for everyone... but for some people; and thus, just a little bit of extra money on top; at least in theory.
It's always a warning sign to look out for: when a company starts to dig in the metaphorical couch cushions for the spare coins that got lost: because it means that main revenue stream isn't as juicy as it once was. As anyone who has worked in an office knows: be wary for when the "little luxuries" and "quality of life" expenses start to vanish; because it means bigger cost-cutting is likely on the way.
It actually discourages me from browsing the marketplace, when I specifically click on the “BEYOND Digital” category , and I need to sift through all the books in order to find the 5 or 6 books I don’t have. Like, should I create a spreadsheet of books I own on DnDB? It is a bad user experience for people who have already shown a desire to buy books digitally.
Some of the books I own aren't even marked in that small font that I own them, even though I fully own them and did not just buy the compendium option! So, if I wasn't going through an meticulously checking which books I owned by comparing them with what I had access to, I wouldn't be able to tell. I feel like someone's trying to scam me, and I don't appreciate it. Please fix this issue.
Worth necroing, i just found out the new layout of the marketstore, this is bullshit. yes its beautiful but its bullshit and has next to no filters.
sorry but the old one was way more convenient and wasn'T half bad glamor wise. so why the fooking change in the first place ?
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Basically, the marketplace is unusable in it's current form. If you want evidence that they are trying to kill DnDBeyond this new marketplace is the proof.
Adding to this, I infrequently (monthly ish) pop in to keep up with new releases for my players, and this store update is counterintuitive in that regard. Having to click through each individual product I'm unsure about to check whether I already own it is making the marketplace experience tedious.
Please restore / readd a "hide products I already own" option.
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To add to this, I will not be buying any more books until they bring this feature back. And I bought everything prior to this. I will not look through every single book I own every time I see something in the marketplace that I wasn't sure of that I already own. If Wizards doesn't want to make it convinient enough to let me know I don't own something (and thus creating the need for me to buy it), I won't do the work for them so I can give them money. If they want my money, they need to make it worth my while, not the other way around.
I 1000% agree with everyone here on this as well. Like I am 100% certain that WoTC hates the dnd community and the fact that they can not bully us so they will just continue to do the absolute worst things that they can think of. The best way to get back into the black is to make it more difficult and change everything about the place where people have been buying stuff for literal years. I am convinced that no one making actual decisions in that company have any brain cells at all. I am sure that they fired the ones that did.
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Respectfully, I don't think openly insulting the decision makers behind this change will help our case. If anything, it opens a possibility for mods to hop in and lock the thread for derailing.
Let's stay courteous and address the ideas themselves rather than the people behind them, as these ideas remain the subject of our trouble.
I want to be able to see books I own, so I don't need to remember the title and search them manually. I want one spot where I can see all my books and nothing else.
I agree with pretty much everything being said here. We need a way to see what we own, and we need the Marketplace to accurately tell us if we already own something. Have an "Un-owned" or "Owned" filter would also be super helpful.
I'm posting on this thread, because until that filter is added, I can not spend money on D&D Beyond. Being able to list what I can add to my collection is important. Honestly the new glossy marketplace looks bad, doesn't work half as well as the old one, and is actively preventing me from making purchases.
It is really annoying to have to manually go through each one to make sure it lists it as "You own this digital product", instead of going and checking to see if something new has shown up.
For some reason the Essentials Kit adventures do not list themselves as products I own, even though I bought them, and can access them through the normal menu system. When viewing their marketplace page, they are the only ones that don't say "You own this digital product" under the "ADD TO CART" button.
Either way, it was nice to be able to go to the marketplace and click "Adventures" and "Sourcebooks" and quickly see if there was a new book, and then I could decide whether or not I wanted to buy it.
By Elminster's beard, yes please. This needs to be a default feature of any marketplace like this. I am also annoyed about no longer being able to buy just what i want from a book. Hasbro strikes again...
Agreed. This is super sneaky. How many people are going to purchase something twice because they own so many books (I am looking at myself right now) and cannot remember if they got THIS one?
How is removing the "you already own this" a feature or improvement?
As someone who was thinking about updating (buying the books I don't own), I have now decided to wait until this is fixed. I can literally add to cart books I already own and head into the checkout without it indicating that I own them--I tested this out and was disturbed to find this out.
I won't be purchasing anything until the marketplace automatically shows what content I already own and clearly distinguishes it from the new content.
I don't think I'll ever use the Marketplace again after the recent changes. It's just been a series of anti-customer decisions and botched responses.
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How can they trick you into buying it again if they bring it back?
I've said it a few times now: but the fact that this feature wasn't in at launch of the "new and improved" storefront is very telling if you know anything about how companies tend to operate when fishing for extra cash. Consider for a moment that: not only does the site clearly already have access to the list of what you own... because it TELLS you... in the smallest font on the entire screen... and only if you click on an individual item; so clearly the "tag" already exists. But you also have to contact customer support via an entirely different website and with an entirely different account in order to GET the associated discount for things you "partially" own. Even free-to-play games like League of Legends let you sort its store front by "things I already own". And that's because this is deliberate: the same way subscription services make actually cancelling the subscription take a dozen different steps, when you could always just pay the 10 dollars to keep it another month and save that hassle! ...the hassle they made be there in the first place... It's designed to make "oh just buy it again!" the path of least resistance; not for everyone... but for some people; and thus, just a little bit of extra money on top; at least in theory.
It's always a warning sign to look out for: when a company starts to dig in the metaphorical couch cushions for the spare coins that got lost: because it means that main revenue stream isn't as juicy as it once was. As anyone who has worked in an office knows: be wary for when the "little luxuries" and "quality of life" expenses start to vanish; because it means bigger cost-cutting is likely on the way.
It actually discourages me from browsing the marketplace, when I specifically click on the “BEYOND Digital” category , and I need to sift through all the books in order to find the 5 or 6 books I don’t have. Like, should I create a spreadsheet of books I own on DnDB? It is a bad user experience for people who have already shown a desire to buy books digitally.
Agreed with all of this.
Some of the books I own aren't even marked in that small font that I own them, even though I fully own them and did not just buy the compendium option! So, if I wasn't going through an meticulously checking which books I owned by comparing them with what I had access to, I wouldn't be able to tell. I feel like someone's trying to scam me, and I don't appreciate it. Please fix this issue.
Worth necroing, i just found out the new layout of the marketstore, this is bullshit. yes its beautiful but its bullshit and has next to no filters.
sorry but the old one was way more convenient and wasn'T half bad glamor wise. so why the fooking change in the first place ?
DM of two gaming groups.
Likes to create stuff.
Check out my homebrew --> Monsters --> Magical Items --> Races --> Subclasses
If you like --> Upvote, If you wanna comment --> Comment
Play by Post Games
--> One Shot Adventure - House of Artwood (DM) (Completed)
Basically, the marketplace is unusable in it's current form. If you want evidence that they are trying to kill DnDBeyond this new marketplace is the proof.
Do they not want me to buy all the books? I can't see which ones I already own and don't own.
Then they removed PayPal? Guess they just want more of my personal information.
Adding to this, I infrequently (monthly ish) pop in to keep up with new releases for my players, and this store update is counterintuitive in that regard.
Having to click through each individual product I'm unsure about to check whether I already own it is making the marketplace experience tedious.
Please restore / readd a "hide products I already own" option.
Yes and yes. This is absurd. There's not even a place to see all my owned books together. It's very shady.
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To add to this, I will not be buying any more books until they bring this feature back. And I bought everything prior to this. I will not look through every single book I own every time I see something in the marketplace that I wasn't sure of that I already own. If Wizards doesn't want to make it convinient enough to let me know I don't own something (and thus creating the need for me to buy it), I won't do the work for them so I can give them money. If they want my money, they need to make it worth my while, not the other way around.
I 1000% agree with everyone here on this as well. Like I am 100% certain that WoTC hates the dnd community and the fact that they can not bully us so they will just continue to do the absolute worst things that they can think of. The best way to get back into the black is to make it more difficult and change everything about the place where people have been buying stuff for literal years. I am convinced that no one making actual decisions in that company have any brain cells at all. I am sure that they fired the ones that did.
Hey, what is up everyone I am Var! Nice to meet you!
Respectfully, I don't think openly insulting the decision makers behind this change will help our case. If anything, it opens a possibility for mods to hop in and lock the thread for derailing.
Let's stay courteous and address the ideas themselves rather than the people behind them, as these ideas remain the subject of our trouble.
I want to be able to see books I own, so I don't need to remember the title and search them manually. I want one spot where I can see all my books and nothing else.
I agree with pretty much everything being said here. We need a way to see what we own, and we need the Marketplace to accurately tell us if we already own something. Have an "Un-owned" or "Owned" filter would also be super helpful.
I'm posting on this thread, because until that filter is added, I can not spend money on D&D Beyond. Being able to list what I can add to my collection is important. Honestly the new glossy marketplace looks bad, doesn't work half as well as the old one, and is actively preventing me from making purchases.