My displeasure over how the ads are handled is severe at this point. I've bought the Player's Handbook, and have no need at this point to store more than 6 characters. I thought (perhaps mistakenly) anything I looked at that was PHB content would be ad free, but this is not the case.
For example, if I click "Spells" from the main menu, any spell I click on for more detail has an ad on it. I could almost excuse this if it's showing me a description from the Basic Rules (which it shouldn't, since most of these rules are in the PHB as well, so shouldn't I be seeing those entries instead?... but that's a whole other argument), but even spells unique to the PHB, like "Tasha's Hideous Laughter", have an ad on them when viewed in this way. The "Items" section behaves the same way.
Basically, it seems like any of the content that's indexed and/or searchable has an ad on it. So I'm forced to see ads on material that I own via D&D Beyond unless I pay for a subscription. The only way to avoid this right now is to go the Compendium, Rules, then the PHB, and stay there (don't click hyperlinks, for example, because it will likely take me to Basic Rules, which has ads on it).
EDIT: Even the above doesn't work, because from within the PHB Compendium, if I click "Races Listing" or "Classes Listing", it takes me to a page with ads on it.
This isn't what I expected. One of the things I loved about the beta was using the search and index of items for when I'm prepping for a game. I thought, as long as I paid for the content that I'm perusing, it would continue to be ad free. I feel like I'm being forced into paying for a subscription, just to avoid seeing the ads that say, coincidentally enough, "Buy a subscription!"
I would also like to know if this is a bug or "Working as intended"
Sadly, I suspect this is what we get. The owned stuff in the Compendium sections we've bought is ad free, but many links within those purchased pages will go to pages that have ads, plus the all encompassing sections devotes to races, classes, spells, monsters, items...they have ads.
i.e. most of the stuff that's actually indexed and searchable has ads on it.
From my understanding the purchased compendiums will remain ad-free, but utilizing the spell, monster, item lists, etc. (additional tools provided by curse) will contain ads without a subscription.
Edit: I could be wrong, but I think it's functioning as intended.
From my understanding the purchased compendiums will remain ad-free, but utilizing the spell, monster, item lists, etc. (additional tools provided by curse) will contain ads without a subscription.
Edit: I could be wrong, but I think it's functioning as intended.
Please be sure to voice my extreme displeasure to Curse over this. Since I've spent money, I don't feel I should see ads on any content that contains information I bought (whether it's in the Compendium, spell/item/monster lists. etc.).
Regardless of that, I might be willing to pay a flat fee to make all the ads go away rather than expect Curse to figure out how to make the above happen. But $36/year to remove ads (since I don't need homebrew nor > 6 character slots)? No...that's not a fair price.
From my understanding the purchased compendiums will remain ad-free, but utilizing the spell, monster, item lists, etc. (additional tools provided by curse) will contain ads without a subscription.
Edit: I could be wrong, but I think it's functioning as intended.
I could've sworn I'd seen a staff quote saying that there aren't supposed to be ads on any purchased content, but I can't seem to find it.
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"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" -- allegedly Benjamin Franklin
The ad free feature provides additional value to those that have a subscription.
To add, the cost to store individuals data would be minimal, but the cost to maintain the servers to provide us our data on-demand, with fast speed, whenever we desire it can be very high. Add to that the cost of the developers to maintain it all, plus licensing fees. That is why we all share the burden via ads or subscription.
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My displeasure over how the ads are handled is severe at this point. I've bought the Player's Handbook, and have no need at this point to store more than 6 characters. I thought (perhaps mistakenly) anything I looked at that was PHB content would be ad free, but this is not the case.
For example, if I click "Spells" from the main menu, any spell I click on for more detail has an ad on it. I could almost excuse this if it's showing me a description from the Basic Rules (which it shouldn't, since most of these rules are in the PHB as well, so shouldn't I be seeing those entries instead?... but that's a whole other argument), but even spells unique to the PHB, like "Tasha's Hideous Laughter", have an ad on them when viewed in this way. The "Items" section behaves the same way.
Basically, it seems like any of the content that's indexed and/or searchable has an ad on it. So I'm forced to see ads on material that I own via D&D Beyond unless I pay for a subscription. The only way to avoid this right now is to go the Compendium, Rules, then the PHB, and stay there (don't click hyperlinks, for example, because it will likely take me to Basic Rules, which has ads on it).
EDIT: Even the above doesn't work, because from within the PHB Compendium, if I click "Races Listing" or "Classes Listing", it takes me to a page with ads on it.
This isn't what I expected. One of the things I loved about the beta was using the search and index of items for when I'm prepping for a game. I thought, as long as I paid for the content that I'm perusing, it would continue to be ad free. I feel like I'm being forced into paying for a subscription, just to avoid seeing the ads that say, coincidentally enough, "Buy a subscription!"
-HM
I would also like to know if this is a bug or "Working as intended"
From my understanding the purchased compendiums will remain ad-free, but utilizing the spell, monster, item lists, etc. (additional tools provided by curse) will contain ads without a subscription.
Edit: I could be wrong, but I think it's functioning as intended.
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they could give ad free to every owner of legendary bundle too, that would be nice and appreciated as a goodie for encouraging them
The ad free feature provides additional value to those that have a subscription.
To add, the cost to store individuals data would be minimal, but the cost to maintain the servers to provide us our data on-demand, with fast speed, whenever we desire it can be very high. Add to that the cost of the developers to maintain it all, plus licensing fees. That is why we all share the burden via ads or subscription.