I'm so upset actually, I was planning on purchasing the legendary bundle and now that option has been taken away. Can't believe this wasn't communicated sooner.
Agreed. I had put it off for a bit, and only had a little over ~$200 left to buy. If I had known it was leaving, they would have gotten an instant purchase as the FOMO would have been too strong for me. Now, I'll likely never buy those books I don't have like Acquisitions incorporated.
This is the most anti-consumer sh## I've seen here for a long time. It seems DDB wants another wide spread controversy in social media. I am so dissapointed.
The loss of a la carte options, and the inability to buy sourcebooks at a discount when I've already bought classes or races for them, are really awful decisions to me. Not to mention the fact that I had to come here to the forums to confirm that's what happened.
Was already thinking about getting my party ready to switch over to Pathfinder but this is going to accelerate that.
You'd think that in the age of microtransactions, they would be pushing 'a la carte' even more. More individual races, classes, subclasses, spell packs, etc.... and then bundle them all together in books later (basically a DLC pack).
It's weird that they are getting rid of them completely.
Whenever you think WoTC can’t go any lower please remember to slap yourself.
This company seems to be, ironically, run by ancient dragons who love to hoard wealth without thinking about the consequences their decisions have on everyone else.
I'm extremely unhappy with these changes; the ditching of individual purchasing of sub-classes, feats etc. is such a customer hostile move.
There have been many books over the years, mainly adventure modules, where I just don't have any interest in purchasing the entire book, but would gladly pay to unlock any unique feats, magic items etc. that took my fancy. Those are sales that are now simply lost, as I'm not going to suddenly start paying $30-50 for a release I would only have spent $5-10 on before, as I'll just homebrew what I need instead.
It's such a nonsensical change and it just reeks of some corporate higher up imagining that this change will somehow magically wring more money out of me, well it won't.
While the improvements to the Maps feature have been great to see, improvements elsewhere on the site have been absolutely glacial, so making one of the core parts of the service (buying digital content) actively worse is not a good move.
Former D&D Beyond Customer of six years: With the axing of piecemeal purchasing, lack of meaningful development, and toxic moderation the site isn't worth paying for anymore. I remain a free user only until my groups are done migrating from DDB, and if necessary D&D, after which I'm done. There are better systems owned by better companies out there.
I have unsubscribed from all topics and will not reply to messages. My homebrew is now 100% unsupported.
and the inability to buy sourcebooks at a discount when I've already bought classes or races for them, are really awful decisions to me. Not to mention the fact that I had to come here to the forums to confirm that's what happened.
They addressed that in the most recent update to the article about the new marketplace. Currently you can still get those discounts, but you will need to contact customer support. Janky and clunky, but the D&D Staff Member that mentioned it realizes that herself so hopefully it'll be updated to a more convenient method soon.
Piling on here to echo the previous complaints and add one more. I previously purchased the Legendary Bundle. If I go to the page for something I don't yet own for which the Legendary discount applies, I see a badge that indicates there's a Legendary Bundle discount, which is nice,....except....you don't SEE that discount until you actually add an item to your cart. So when you are browsing products there's no way to see the actual price of anything. The previous experience showed me my discounted price right in the search results and product pages. I don't see any reason for why this would have regressed.
You underestimated the importance of this change to us.
You should have communicated this change clearly and with sufficient warning.
The marketplace changes fail to respect the collectible nature of your product(s). This is best displayed by the difficulties in determining what we already own from what we don't.
It's clunky to contact customer service for a discount based on previously purchased à la carte items.
Removing bundles only means we have to pay more and that's painfully obvious with this change.
The above issues paint a picture where this change was rushed and purely for the benefit of a profit rather than the utility and play assistance we've come to expect from you (and the reason most of us are here). It's difficult to see a different perspective on the change.
Yes, the marketplace is now prettier. There's no longer a need to go to a separate site for Digital/Physical purchases. Credit where it's due. However, these benefits are vastly outweighed by the reduced functionality and increased costs. Despite the hyperbole of a lot of the criticism you face this *does* appear incredibly ghoulish.
From a player perspective, using DND Beyond mainly to build and manage characters, a la carte purchasing just makes sense. I know that as a DM with a top tier subscription, I can share my purchases with players in my campaign, but that's not applicable in Adventurer's League play. And even so, why should I, as the DM, be responsible for buying all the books just so one person in my group can be an echo knight? Or have that giant feat?
REALLY not a fan of this change and the fact that I have to repurchase content I've already paid for simply because I didn't buy the entire book is absolute garbage.
REALLY not a fan of this change and the fact that I have to repurchase content I've already paid for simply because I didn't buy the entire book is absolute garbage.
You actually don't. There's issues with how it's been displaying but you can contact customer service to get the discounts applied as per the latest update to the announcement about the marketplace change.
That information was very slow to trickle out so it's not as widespread of information as would've been preferable, but you will still get the discount.
Can I still purchase subclasses, feats, and other game listings à la carte?
À la carte purchases are no longer supported. However, any individual items you've previously purchased will continue to be available for use on D&D Beyond. If you've purchased à la carte items and would like to buy the digital book, your discounts are available to you at any time by contacting customer service.
Removing a la carte purchasing--especially with absolutely zero confirmation beforehand--is the worst possible move I can imagine. Yes, I'm sure some marketing whiz who has their finger nowhere near the pulse of the average DDB user said "One race or one subclass is the draw! Remove a la carte and we'll watch those profits soar as they spent $40 instead of $2.99 for it!" Except that... we won't. I know I sure as heck won't. I've spent hundreds and hundreds on a la carte purchases, and had every plan to continue doing so. Well, congratulations: I can promise you that I will not be making another purchase until a la carte is returned. If that means I have to accept everything I've already spent as a sunken cost and move to a third-party system for my players' character management, so be it. Until this update, I was a very vocal advocate for DDB. But it's just a bridge too far with this blatant, ill-advised cash grab.
I have spent between $300-400 (actually probably more since I've been subbed for years) as a DM and a la carte as a player. When the OGL stuff happened I kept waiting to see if WOTC would reverse before canceling my subscription and they finally changed their mind I was quite pleased. Given the quality of books being sketchy (I still feel burned by pre-ordering Spelljammer) and actions like this make it pretty clear to me is that DND is dead.
Why? Because those in charge of the company will always be trying to screw over me as a consumer any time no one is looking or paying attention. OGL caused a revolt, so it is clear to me they will just try to change small things when no one is looking until eventually DND is a shadow of its former self. I will continue using the content I purchased but should I DM moving forward (with my hardcover or DDB campaigns) I will not have my players make accounts on DDB, I will just have them use pen and paper. Guess I will need to figure out what happens when I cancel my sub (whichever is the one that lets you share as DMs in your campaign).
I'm really pissed that you have removed a la carte purchases and without any notice. I buy all the damn physical books and I don't want to have to pay double just to make my characters on Beyond. Being able to do it a la carte made it bearable. This is too much!
Was always using a la carte and DM subscription as go to for character creation. But now i will go back to Pen&Paper and delete my subscription. I think i wont be the only one... great move if you want to lose your customers....
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Agreed. I had put it off for a bit, and only had a little over ~$200 left to buy. If I had known it was leaving, they would have gotten an instant purchase as the FOMO would have been too strong for me. Now, I'll likely never buy those books I don't have like Acquisitions incorporated.
This is the most anti-consumer sh## I've seen here for a long time. It seems DDB wants another wide spread controversy in social media. I am so dissapointed.
I really hope they dont get away with this. DDB being bought by Hasbro has overall been such a disaster.
a la carte? gone
less and and worse discounts
they pretty much stopped working on all the cool features they promised too.
The loss of a la carte options, and the inability to buy sourcebooks at a discount when I've already bought classes or races for them, are really awful decisions to me. Not to mention the fact that I had to come here to the forums to confirm that's what happened.
Was already thinking about getting my party ready to switch over to Pathfinder but this is going to accelerate that.
the previously owned items not counting towards the total of the book is a bug. the article on the main page explains this is supposed to be working.
Ah okay that makes sense at least. Thank you
You'd think that in the age of microtransactions, they would be pushing 'a la carte' even more. More individual races, classes, subclasses, spell packs, etc.... and then bundle them all together in books later (basically a DLC pack).
It's weird that they are getting rid of them completely.
Whenever you think WoTC can’t go any lower please remember to slap yourself.
This company seems to be, ironically, run by ancient dragons who love to hoard wealth without thinking about the consequences their decisions have on everyone else.
clown world.
I'm extremely unhappy with these changes; the ditching of individual purchasing of sub-classes, feats etc. is such a customer hostile move.
There have been many books over the years, mainly adventure modules, where I just don't have any interest in purchasing the entire book, but would gladly pay to unlock any unique feats, magic items etc. that took my fancy. Those are sales that are now simply lost, as I'm not going to suddenly start paying $30-50 for a release I would only have spent $5-10 on before, as I'll just homebrew what I need instead.
It's such a nonsensical change and it just reeks of some corporate higher up imagining that this change will somehow magically wring more money out of me, well it won't.
While the improvements to the Maps feature have been great to see, improvements elsewhere on the site have been absolutely glacial, so making one of the core parts of the service (buying digital content) actively worse is not a good move.
Former D&D Beyond Customer of six years: With the axing of piecemeal purchasing, lack of meaningful development, and toxic moderation the site isn't worth paying for anymore. I remain a free user only until my groups are done migrating from DDB, and if necessary D&D, after which I'm done. There are better systems owned by better companies out there.
I have unsubscribed from all topics and will not reply to messages. My homebrew is now 100% unsupported.
They addressed that in the most recent update to the article about the new marketplace. Currently you can still get those discounts, but you will need to contact customer support. Janky and clunky, but the D&D Staff Member that mentioned it realizes that herself so hopefully it'll be updated to a more convenient method soon.
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Piling on here to echo the previous complaints and add one more. I previously purchased the Legendary Bundle. If I go to the page for something I don't yet own for which the Legendary discount applies, I see a badge that indicates there's a Legendary Bundle discount, which is nice,....except....you don't SEE that discount until you actually add an item to your cart. So when you are browsing products there's no way to see the actual price of anything. The previous experience showed me my discounted price right in the search results and product pages. I don't see any reason for why this would have regressed.
I agree too
The above issues paint a picture where this change was rushed and purely for the benefit of a profit rather than the utility and play assistance we've come to expect from you (and the reason most of us are here). It's difficult to see a different perspective on the change.
Yes, the marketplace is now prettier. There's no longer a need to go to a separate site for Digital/Physical purchases. Credit where it's due. However, these benefits are vastly outweighed by the reduced functionality and increased costs. Despite the hyperbole of a lot of the criticism you face this *does* appear incredibly ghoulish.
You need to fix this immediately.
From a player perspective, using DND Beyond mainly to build and manage characters, a la carte purchasing just makes sense. I know that as a DM with a top tier subscription, I can share my purchases with players in my campaign, but that's not applicable in Adventurer's League play. And even so, why should I, as the DM, be responsible for buying all the books just so one person in my group can be an echo knight? Or have that giant feat?
REALLY not a fan of this change and the fact that I have to repurchase content I've already paid for simply because I didn't buy the entire book is absolute garbage.
You actually don't. There's issues with how it's been displaying but you can contact customer service to get the discounts applied as per the latest update to the announcement about the marketplace change.
That information was very slow to trickle out so it's not as widespread of information as would've been preferable, but you will still get the discount.
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Removing a la carte purchasing--especially with absolutely zero confirmation beforehand--is the worst possible move I can imagine. Yes, I'm sure some marketing whiz who has their finger nowhere near the pulse of the average DDB user said "One race or one subclass is the draw! Remove a la carte and we'll watch those profits soar as they spent $40 instead of $2.99 for it!" Except that... we won't. I know I sure as heck won't. I've spent hundreds and hundreds on a la carte purchases, and had every plan to continue doing so. Well, congratulations: I can promise you that I will not be making another purchase until a la carte is returned. If that means I have to accept everything I've already spent as a sunken cost and move to a third-party system for my players' character management, so be it. Until this update, I was a very vocal advocate for DDB. But it's just a bridge too far with this blatant, ill-advised cash grab.
I have spent between $300-400 (actually probably more since I've been subbed for years) as a DM and a la carte as a player. When the OGL stuff happened I kept waiting to see if WOTC would reverse before canceling my subscription and they finally changed their mind I was quite pleased. Given the quality of books being sketchy (I still feel burned by pre-ordering Spelljammer) and actions like this make it pretty clear to me is that DND is dead.
Why? Because those in charge of the company will always be trying to screw over me as a consumer any time no one is looking or paying attention. OGL caused a revolt, so it is clear to me they will just try to change small things when no one is looking until eventually DND is a shadow of its former self. I will continue using the content I purchased but should I DM moving forward (with my hardcover or DDB campaigns) I will not have my players make accounts on DDB, I will just have them use pen and paper. Guess I will need to figure out what happens when I cancel my sub (whichever is the one that lets you share as DMs in your campaign).
I'm just disappointed.
I'm really pissed that you have removed a la carte purchases and without any notice. I buy all the damn physical books and I don't want to have to pay double just to make my characters on Beyond. Being able to do it a la carte made it bearable. This is too much!
Was always using a la carte and DM subscription as go to for character creation. But now i will go back to Pen&Paper and delete my subscription. I think i wont be the only one... great move if you want to lose your customers....