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.
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).
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.
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.
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unhappy at the way in which we lost individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
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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.
"When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it." ~ Henry Cloud #ORC #OpenDND
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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..
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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.
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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.
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.
While it was never promoted and sold like bundle discount stacking was (which has for all intents and purposes been removed to date though they claim to be working on a fix that doesn't include a long and ultimately fruitless "solution" for many), taking piecemeal purchasing away is definitely perceived as financial gatekeeping to many who have bought into this platform, which would seem to run askew with what wotc has indicated they want to quell and distance themselves from the original creators of the IP. They do seem to be at odds with what they say, and what they do though it is their IP, we do not have to buy in or continue to support these business practices, if we do not agree with where they choose to go. Though wizbro is doing what corporations do to keep shareholders happy, until they are inclined to divest it is we as end users control the pursestrings at the end of the day.
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CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
Me and my party are leaving D&D Beyond to use Foundry. Sad but necessary. We alway bought individual itens. We live in Brazil and pay 40 USD in a book just to use a single feat is not an option. 40 USD is A LOT of money. What a shame wizards
Ok, so the DM has to buy the whole book for one item. I fail to see how that's any better.
The DM has to buy the whole book for the contents of the book; if you only want a book for two pages, it may not be worth getting the book, but that's the way RPGs have worked for fifty years.
It's not how it's worked for the last 6-7 years that DnDBeyond has been around. Or if you want to compare just to physical books then for 50 years you've never had to pay a subscription to share content you own.
Whichever way you look at it DnDBeyond have chosen to make the online game more expensive and much less usable, for no reason other than corporate greed, and they don't even have the decency to communicate with their customers about it.
Just throwing my voice in to help spread the word and hopefully get Hasbro/Wizards' attention.
I loved a la carte purchases... I'm the type of person who loves crafting characters, and I'm willing to pay a couple bucks here and there for interesting character options or magic items.
But I cannot justify spending 30-50 dollars when all I want is a subclass or a background. And, by extension, I'm not going to do it. I guess I'll just stick to what I already have until they reinstate the microtransactions a la carte as an option. This is absolutely ridiculous and I hope that Wizards is taking a financial beating from this awful decision.
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Unhappy that the market got rid of individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
Me and my party are leaving D&D Beyond to use Foundry. Sad but necessary. We alway bought individual itens. We live in Brazil and pay 40 USD in a book just to use a single feat is not an option. 40 USD is A LOT of money. What a shame wizards
Foundry, eh? What other ones are people thinking? I'd prefer to stay here, but with no a la carte, I'm cutting my losses, DNDbeyond is a bad investment.
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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!
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.
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).
No its due to a court case where shareholders went to court, due to the company owner wanting not to focus on the short term and instead of wanting to improve the company as a whole focusing long term(like treating workers not as slave labor).... they won then took they money they gained from said short term gains and founded a Direct competitor for that company, this court case set quite a bad precendent and ever since that its mistakenly considered the only goal of a CEO is to appease the shareholders since people only look at one aspect of the situation... atleast in U.S.A(they have a funny way of taking things out context... like the saying "customer is always right" which is not even the complete quote but managers seem to take it to heart)
No its due to a court case where shareholders went to court, due to the company owner wanting not to focus on the short term and instead of wanting to improve the company as a whole focusing long term.
I'm not sure what case you're referring to... but the reason it's possible to win a shareholder lawsuit like that is because the CEO has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders.
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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.
"When truth presents itself, the wise person see the light, takes it in, and makes adjustments. The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it." ~ Henry Cloud #ORC #OpenDND
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.
While it was never promoted and sold like bundle discount stacking was (which has for all intents and purposes been removed to date though they claim to be working on a fix that doesn't include a long and ultimately fruitless "solution" for many), taking piecemeal purchasing away is definitely perceived as financial gatekeeping to many who have bought into this platform, which would seem to run askew with what wotc has indicated they want to quell and distance themselves from the original creators of the IP. They do seem to be at odds with what they say, and what they do though it is their IP, we do not have to buy in or continue to support these business practices, if we do not agree with where they choose to go. Though wizbro is doing what corporations do to keep shareholders happy, until they are inclined to divest it is we as end users control the pursestrings at the end of the day.
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
Me and my party are leaving D&D Beyond to use Foundry. Sad but necessary. We alway bought individual itens. We live in Brazil and pay 40 USD in a book just to use a single feat is not an option. 40 USD is A LOT of money. What a shame wizards
Ok, so the DM has to buy the whole book for one item. I fail to see how that's any better.
The DM has to buy the whole book for the contents of the book; if you only want a book for two pages, it may not be worth getting the book, but that's the way RPGs have worked for fifty years.
i check every few days in hopes that they will come to their damn senses and fix this blunder so i can give them more money but nope hahaa
It's not how it's worked for the last 6-7 years that DnDBeyond has been around. Or if you want to compare just to physical books then for 50 years you've never had to pay a subscription to share content you own.
Whichever way you look at it DnDBeyond have chosen to make the online game more expensive and much less usable, for no reason other than corporate greed, and they don't even have the decency to communicate with their customers about it.
Just throwing my voice in to help spread the word and hopefully get Hasbro/Wizards' attention.
I loved a la carte purchases... I'm the type of person who loves crafting characters, and I'm willing to pay a couple bucks here and there for interesting character options or magic items.
But I cannot justify spending 30-50 dollars when all I want is a subclass or a background. And, by extension, I'm not going to do it. I guess I'll just stick to what I already have until they reinstate the
microtransactionsa la carte as an option. This is absolutely ridiculous and I hope that Wizards is taking a financial beating from this awful decision.Unhappy that the market got rid of individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
Provide feedback!
Foundry, eh?
What other ones are people thinking?
I'd prefer to stay here, but with no a la carte, I'm cutting my losses, DNDbeyond is a bad investment.
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!
No its due to a court case where shareholders went to court, due to the company owner wanting not to focus on the short term and instead of wanting to improve the company as a whole focusing long term(like treating workers not as slave labor).... they won then took they money they gained from said short term gains and founded a Direct competitor for that company, this court case set quite a bad precendent and ever since that its mistakenly considered the only goal of a CEO is to appease the shareholders since people only look at one aspect of the situation... atleast in U.S.A(they have a funny way of taking things out context... like the saying "customer is always right" which is not even the complete quote but managers seem to take it to heart)
I'm not sure what case you're referring to... but the reason it's possible to win a shareholder lawsuit like that is because the CEO has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders.