Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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I just tried to purchase a book that I had already made a la carte purchases from and was no longer given the discount. I did not go through with the transaction. That is lost revenue.
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What the f***!?!? I just found out about this. Was waiting for my players to level up to unlock some sub-classes and now I can't because if this terrible change. I guess instead of getting some money from us they will get none. Ridiculous 😩
Best bet is to cancel your subscription. I've cancelled mine as have several others. That's the only way to reach these folks.
Know what my biggest fear is? That they truly don't care and will continue as is. Almost like they want DnDBeyond (and D&D as a whole) to fail and die. It's kind of evident, seeing as how all the other scandals played out.
That thought had occurred to me too.
i need on subclass in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (undead warlock). Is it worth me buying the entire book for this?
no
My wife got me into this many years ago. Monkey king fan. Sneak fan. Storyteller.
I tried that. They never responded.
This is very silly. An unliked business decision is not a conspiracy. This "other scandals" thing is silly too considering the huge concessions they made in the OGL situation. There's no basis to think they're deliberately trying to hurt their own bottom line with such a ubiquitous brand.
It's silly until you consider how DNDbeyond has changed since acquisition. The content and customer/community focus has gone. So, its path of failure is in motion.
And they can "deliberately hurt their own bottom line by eliminating costs that are things they think people don't want or need. Cutting straight to profits and bottom line without considering the product is poison - albeit bog-standard managerial corporatism. If they don't understand what makes a rand or product or market work, how are they supposed to be able to make good decisions?
DId you know?
The DDB marketplace has REMOVED the option for purchasing one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters "a la carte".
Now you ALWAYS have to buy the ENTIRE book instead.
Unhappy? UNSUBSCRIBE and
Let them know your thoughts!
They're not trying to hurt their own bottom line, but it's worth remembering that one way of increasing your bottom line is by reducing expenses, and companies frequently imagine they can reduce expenses without also reducing sales (they're not always wrong, but they tend to be overly optimistic).
the real proof in the pudding is after one or two of the revised core are released: it's a very corporate thing to focus on pre-orders anyway and the 50th anniversary stuff really brings a spotlight. but then what? maybe my google-fu is weak, but the roadmap for 2025/26 seems to be maybe red wizards and then dot dot dot... way to plan for that wave of new consumers, guys. yeah, sure, they're busy right now. even so, i'd like to know that all this cooking is leading to further things and not just a one-time extraction of value. which is also a very corporate thing.
unhappy at the way in which we lost individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
tell them you don't like features disappeared quietly in the night: provide feedback!
There is a moronic theory that has become practice that a CEO's primary responsibility is to keep profits moving constantly upward and to the right to keep shareholders happy. Anyone with a functional brain knows that it is a path to failure, because eternal growth is impossible. However, corporations still insist on it despite the fact that it proven to kill company after company. Yet they merge, cut everything for the sake of the bottom line, and generally ruin their long-term viability for a few more months of short-term profits. I mean, why would the CEO care since most of them are gone before the damage, and their compensation package solely cares about stock value of the moment.
Even if a single CEO gets in that does the right things, the next one will quickly destroy what they received to pad their stock bonuses some more. Don't worry though, once Hasbro has run D&D into the ground for their short-term profits they will be sold off or merged with someone else. Ultimately, everything will be owned by Disney and we will all celebrate the return of the d20 Star Wars RPG to the fold.
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For a publicly traded for-profit corporation, the job of a CEO is in fact to maximize shareholder value (for other types of business, it can be different). The usual error is seeking transient bonuses with negative long-term effects (e.g. staff cuts almost certainly increase profits for the year you do them, but the resulted loss of quality will cost you in later years. This can be a worthwhile tradeoff, but the way incentive structures are set up often result in people making that tradeoff even when it isn't actually worthwhile).
This is absolute garbage. So when my DM gives my character an item I have to buy an entire book just for that one item. Really losing faith in Dndbeyond.
You do not need to buy anything. If the GM has Content Sharing turned on in the campaign, you have access to everything the GM has.
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yup. sad. what a dumb move on their part.. allowing us to buy items individually was one of the best features they ever had and they threw it away... the amount of people that defend it is just as sad to me.. shame... so many times i would have given them money and they miss out and i miss out.. literally lose / lose..
they are losing a ton of money for this no matter what they have convinced themselves lol
This is historically proven.
Shareholder driven profit motive and corporate ladder climbing of CEOs jumping from one firm to another promising to increase profits by doing things the last CEO balked at, and selling off to the bigger fish or a private equity firm to dissolve it: It is the heart of the enshitification of the market, particularly the last 50-60 years..
DId you know?
The DDB marketplace has REMOVED the option for purchasing one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters "a la carte".
Now you ALWAYS have to buy the ENTIRE book instead.
Unhappy? UNSUBSCRIBE and
Let them know your thoughts!
Over 1000 posts on this topic. Lets keep it going
Such a step backwards for inclusivity from people of all walks of life. Sometimes people cant afford a whole ass book for the one feat or subclass etc they need.
So disappointing that they would create such a pay-wall, I get angry about this every time I come across a subclass or feat I can't just buy singularly.
Really impacts character creation.