How many jumped ship and cancelled subscriptions with the OGL firestorm? They practically had to beg people to buy subs. Now they shot themselves in the foot by saying “let’s just kill off our own revenue stream on micro transactions forcing them to buy full price every time!” Did they seriously think we’d be on board? Those of us that stayed after the OGL debacle have just been pushed out. Good luck WOTC, you may kill the game before the next version even hits shelves. 

It was, in fact, a portent of things to come. Extremely disappointing. 

Wow, they really are delusional in thinking people will buy an entire book for just the features or subclasses XD. Guess more homebrewing or going to other sites for the materials.

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It sucks that D&DBeyond no longer cares about its users. Being able to buy things separately made it easier for us to rationalize giving them our money in our current economic situation. It also meant that subsequently, more people were giving them money. This decision will sink them, but since the people who own D&DBeyond now don't know business strategies, they don't understand how detrimental of a decision they just made. I just checked Eberon and found that I could not buy the Artificer subclasses that I do not have because of their decision to stop making money. They will receive very little money, only from the desperate, who have no other method of getting what they need for D&D games. It is a shame that such a beloved website fell so far and is now just run by people who do not know how to make money, even when their customers tell them what to do in order to get them to pay. Unfortunately, the people who run this website now believe we are all idiots, and they underestimate our intelligence, so they believe we will spend $30-$60 to get an entire book, which contains, perhaps, one singular thing we will use. We are not that stupid, or that wealthy. But unfortunately, they don't understand that, and believe us to have small minds. They laugh at us from their mighty pillars of wealth and privilege, and believe that we will freely, and without reason, place more bricks on top of their pillars in order to raise them higher as we fall into the pits of destitution, where we are no longer of use to them. I only play if I have free chip codes. I take them to https://ausscasinosanalyzer.com/casino-bonuses/avantgardecasino.com periodically. I don't like other conditions. When do you think they will realize the error of their ways? When there is no more money for them to gain, for all their customers have died from homelessness, and the very products which they bought for them have been reclaimed by the banks and businesses who allowed for the transactions to transpire in the first place? When there is no higher for them to climb, do you think they will still be unsatisfied with their lot? Surely, they will be, for their gluttony and greed are insatiable. Then they will sit atop their pillars of power and slowly they will descend, and nothing will be left to bring them back up, to even the tallest point, where they were still unsated, for all of us shall be long gone, and the only place where the money shall still be flowing, is the almighty banks. The banks have no one to pay but themselves, for they are the keepers and the dealers of the cards. They are the house of the casino. All money is gambling and playing cards, and all of us gamblers and players. But in the end, no matter how dirty you play, or how many tokens you steal, the house always wins, no matter what. The Wizards of The Coast will fall. All gamblers do. And when the time comes that they are dragged out of the casino kicking and screaming, for they will have no more cards to play, and their winning streak will have long been over, as it already is, I wonder if they will reflect on the steps they took to reach that point. I wonder if they will care. Or if they will understand that it was they themselves who orchestrated their own fall. That it was their own folly that failed them. And in that moment, I wonder if they will be sorry, and look to us for a new hand. And I wonder if they will be sad when they realize we have no more hands to deal, for they stole all our tokens and played them dirty. Unfortunate indeed, and yet so easy to correct right now. But I know they will not correct it. They remain blind and are unwilling to remove their blindfold, so the light of truth will never reach their eyes until it is too late, and the light has died out.

 
It's unlikely that they're aiming for short-term gains, they probably intended to rethink their strategy. But it seems unexpected. In any case, I hope it was just a mistaken decision, and after some time they'll realize it and revert to the previous terms. Not everyone can afford huge expenses. After all, it's quite a niche interest.

I hate them.

Can anyone confirm if you can no longer purchase classes, feats, etc. separately? I don't seem to be able to. If this is the case, I may no longer purchase from DND Beyond.

Yes. A la carte is gone.

I was displeased to find this was no longer an option, and upset. As a player first, my DM has all the books bought in physical form, which meant the buy-open feature was great for us who wanted to use DDB for character creation only. Now it seems we are forced to buy entire digital books to get access to way to create our characters, which is making me seriously reconsider my subscription.

As someone with a plethora of reasons on why I want my character sheet online, this makes me extremely sad. I hope they'll find a way to bring back this feature, because I'll just go back to pen and paper if this is how it is. The subscription will no longer be worth the cost this way.