I agree with everyone here. They will get nothing more from me unless and until they fix the Marketplace, bring back a la carte, and automate the credit for previously purchased a la carte content. Hopefully the blowback from users will be big enough to make them see the error of their ways.
I mean, in 2024, who wants to contact Customer Service to get credit for things they've already purchased?!?
This is the reason people pirate stuff and I can't fathom why it's so hard for the people running these companies to realize. It takes like 0 critical thinking skills.
I owned the legendary bundle. In the new marketplace, which is awful, I checked on Eberron: Rising from the Last War. If does not show the you already own this product tag and was going to let me buy it. I still have access in my account, but I am very worried that I may now purchase a double because you cannot correctly show what has been purchased in your new store. At least with the old filter, I got the "you own it all."
I've been hoping to get my D&D group to buy into D&DBeyond as a platform for years. The incremental improvements to the Maps function was taking the site in the right direction, when combined with the ability to buy the elements we needed piecemeal. After this change, I am giving up on this uphill battle completely, now.
From the very beginning, I've hated the idea of having to buy digital content I've already paid for by buying the book. D&D Beyond was the only online platform I've invested in, purely because I could just pay a few dollars for the parts I needed, one at a time. I have avoided investing in Roll20, Foundry, Fantasy Grounds, etc. I've played games on all of them, but haven't been willing to shell out any money for content. The microtransaction model for digital elements in D&DBeyond was the only model that I could stomach (and I generally hate microtransactions). I was never going to pay full price for a digital copy of the book, but I did sink hundreds of dollars into the parts that I wanted over time, and was happy to continue to do so.
The Marketplace redesign is terrible. I don't find it "pretty", it's opaque, confusing, and difficult to navigate. Not showing what you already own and forcing you to figure that out on your own, so you can ask customer support for a discount is terrible business practice. I am not going to beg for your indulgence so I can enjoy the privilege of buying something I didn't want in the first place.
I see no reason to continue using D&DBeyond as a platform. Roll20 already does everything else better. The piecemeal transactions were the only things keeping me here, and it's time I listened to the preferences of literally EVERYONE else I game with, and look elsewhere.
A terrible decision all around. My biggest hang up is not with the ugly hard to navigate marketplace, nor is it taking away the a la carte discount without contacting customer service, it's with shutting down players and DMs with the removal of piecemeal.
No longer can I get individual items, backgrounds, sub-classes, or races for my players to try, I have to buy a full book without seeing what is in it. Disgusting move by Hasbro, no communication at all, just to barely raise their bottom line. I pray this decision blows up in their face and they roll it back. Do better for your declining player-base.
I went to buy some things for my new campaign a la carte and I cannot believe this was removed with no warning. I have no idea what I do and don't have anymore. I own the books! I JUST subscribed for my new campaign and was going to catch up on player options. Now idk what I'm going to do. Also, it was always stated that buying part gave a discount on the whole and that no longer exists. Bait and switch. God. I just want to play D&d. Why much Wizards fight me at every turn? I don't WANT to switch to Pathfinder but it's certainly appealing.
I went to buy some things for my new campaign a la carte and I cannot believe this was removed with no warning. I have no idea what I do and don't have anymore. I own the books! I JUST subscribed for my new campaign and was going to catch up on player options. Now idk what I'm going to do. Also, it was always stated that buying part gave a discount on the whole and that no longer exists. Bait and switch. God. I just want to play D&d. Why much Wizards fight me at every turn? I don't WANT to switch to Pathfinder but it's certainly appealing.
I went to buy some things for my new campaign a la carte and I cannot believe this was removed with no warning. I have no idea what I do and don't have anymore. I own the books! I JUST subscribed for my new campaign and was going to catch up on player options. Now idk what I'm going to do. Also, it was always stated that buying part gave a discount on the whole and that no longer exists. Bait and switch. God. I just want to play D&d. Why much Wizards fight me at every turn? I don't WANT to switch to Pathfinder but it's certainly appealing.
They're basically giving you three choices:
Buy an entire digital book you don't need most of.
Homebrew the content you already own using the clunky barely functional homebrew tools – at least until they get rid of those (which is inevitable if they double down on axing a la carte purchasing rather than bringing it back).
Switch to a company that doesn't treat you like you a spineless pleb who exists only to be squeezed until more money comes out.
The longer this marketplace update remains in place, the angrier I'm getting about it; it needs to be rolled back immediately as it literally brings not a single improvement to the site, alongside a mountain of major failures.
We've tolerated glacial development on this site for years only because the fundamentals were good; homebrew support and a la carte purchasing are what made this site an appealing option. Now we only have one of those, but there's no way the same corporate shit-stain that ordered the axing of a la carte purchases is going to tolerate players getting anything for free, so I can't see anything but a rapid downward spiral for this site's future.
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.
axing partial purchase is extremely dumb decision because it just remove one of few advantages DDB havehad over other competitors meaning less people will join DDB and spend money there, not talking about possibility that many a la carte buyers will just decide that spending 10 minutes homebrewing stuff easier that buying whole book...
tldr DDB decision just boosted piracy and roll20 by their own stupidity for questionable profits (if they even be profitable) typical corporate hamster mindset with refusing to look into near future.
Just saw the marketplace changes and had comment somewhere. How does Hasbro think this was gonna go? The user's tanked subscriptions last time the company did something so moneygrubbing and short sighted. Did they think we'd all just be like, o well that's just how it is I guess?
I was on the Beyond trial and it was set to renew on Monday. Once I saw this change and cancelled immediately. I put down the reason was this change took away any value this site had for me. I'm not going to spend full price when I only need a few pages of the book. I can just find the PDF elsewhere and go back to paper and pencil.
Classic example of corporate greed pushing people back to the high seas.
I'm pretty disappointed that they're stopping the a la carte purchasing options. That was one of the best features and having the cost of purchased piecemeal content deducted from a books total cost was a great stepping stone to building up a content library.
This was the example of how microtransactions could be implemented in a fair and reasonable way? I guess if I only have a few dollars to spend on D&D Beyond I can buy digital dice to roll on a virtual table top that's so virtual it doesn't even exist yet.
The loss of a la carte purchases as they call them, is a real shame for me. I cannot commit to $30/$70 at a time, but $2-5 on occasion isn't too bad.
I also feel the subscriptions are pointless, why not have a subscription service (like paradox) ca. $3-7 that offers access to all content (core/non-core could be diff tiers) as long as you have it active? As most people mention the key things a lot on here care about is access to races/subclasses/feats etc.
Does anyone know any good alternative websites to go to instead? I was planning on buying the book of many things feat alone, but saw the new design. I hate it. And I already have spent too much on here in these "À la carte" purchases and some sourcebooks, because that was more convenient than spending over $300 to get the full books.
This just removed most of the site's value. Bring back a la carte--especially as we now need to use Customer Service to get the rest of the book later? That's ridiculous.
I really hope that Hasbro, WOTC, and the DnDBeyond team are all channeling the message to the top that DNDBeyond is the one of if not the biggest advantage DND has on other systems. Lowering the barrier of entry and barrier of maintenance of a game is huge even when people don't realize it. I find the new store harder to identify the information I care about such as what digital products I don't own, and don't understand the change of removing a la carte purchases. I would imagine the a la carte purchase option would fit in perfectly with some potential monetization options for the upcoming VTT and Maps features by giving smaller cost options that can be paired with small cost aesthetic VTT options such as visual affects, special token and color options, etc. Someone purchasing 5 monsters for 1.99 and a visual or sound effect pack for each monster at 1.99 is giving you ~20 bucks. Someone being mad that they have to buy a full adventure book to get stats for 5 monsters is likely paying you 0.
I've spent more than I'd like to admit on books over the past couple years, and one of the few reassuring things was that I didn't need to commit a full $30 for a couple of statblocks. Being able to pick up something on the fly for like $2 and knowing that I could buy the book at a discount down the road was a massive selling point.
I agree with everyone here. They will get nothing more from me unless and until they fix the Marketplace, bring back a la carte, and automate the credit for previously purchased a la carte content. Hopefully the blowback from users will be big enough to make them see the error of their ways.
I mean, in 2024, who wants to contact Customer Service to get credit for things they've already purchased?!?
This is the reason people pirate stuff and I can't fathom why it's so hard for the people running these companies to realize. It takes like 0 critical thinking skills.
I'm being more and more put off supporting WotC and D&D. Most, if not all, of their recent decisions have been anti-consumer.
I owned the legendary bundle. In the new marketplace, which is awful, I checked on Eberron: Rising from the Last War. If does not show the you already own this product tag and was going to let me buy it. I still have access in my account, but I am very worried that I may now purchase a double because you cannot correctly show what has been purchased in your new store. At least with the old filter, I got the "you own it all."
I've been hoping to get my D&D group to buy into D&DBeyond as a platform for years. The incremental improvements to the Maps function was taking the site in the right direction, when combined with the ability to buy the elements we needed piecemeal. After this change, I am giving up on this uphill battle completely, now.
From the very beginning, I've hated the idea of having to buy digital content I've already paid for by buying the book. D&D Beyond was the only online platform I've invested in, purely because I could just pay a few dollars for the parts I needed, one at a time. I have avoided investing in Roll20, Foundry, Fantasy Grounds, etc. I've played games on all of them, but haven't been willing to shell out any money for content. The microtransaction model for digital elements in D&DBeyond was the only model that I could stomach (and I generally hate microtransactions). I was never going to pay full price for a digital copy of the book, but I did sink hundreds of dollars into the parts that I wanted over time, and was happy to continue to do so.
The Marketplace redesign is terrible. I don't find it "pretty", it's opaque, confusing, and difficult to navigate. Not showing what you already own and forcing you to figure that out on your own, so you can ask customer support for a discount is terrible business practice. I am not going to beg for your indulgence so I can enjoy the privilege of buying something I didn't want in the first place.
I see no reason to continue using D&DBeyond as a platform. Roll20 already does everything else better. The piecemeal transactions were the only things keeping me here, and it's time I listened to the preferences of literally EVERYONE else I game with, and look elsewhere.
A terrible decision all around. My biggest hang up is not with the ugly hard to navigate marketplace, nor is it taking away the a la carte discount without contacting customer service, it's with shutting down players and DMs with the removal of piecemeal.
No longer can I get individual items, backgrounds, sub-classes, or races for my players to try, I have to buy a full book without seeing what is in it. Disgusting move by Hasbro, no communication at all, just to barely raise their bottom line. I pray this decision blows up in their face and they roll it back. Do better for your declining player-base.
I went to buy some things for my new campaign a la carte and I cannot believe this was removed with no warning. I have no idea what I do and don't have anymore. I own the books! I JUST subscribed for my new campaign and was going to catch up on player options. Now idk what I'm going to do. Also, it was always stated that buying part gave a discount on the whole and that no longer exists. Bait and switch. God. I just want to play D&d. Why much Wizards fight me at every turn? I don't WANT to switch to Pathfinder but it's certainly appealing.
For the record. I no longer have plans to buy anything on DNDbeyond. I was planning to buy many things and now am not with this update.
The voice of a generation.
They're basically giving you three choices:
The longer this marketplace update remains in place, the angrier I'm getting about it; it needs to be rolled back immediately as it literally brings not a single improvement to the site, alongside a mountain of major failures.
We've tolerated glacial development on this site for years only because the fundamentals were good; homebrew support and a la carte purchasing are what made this site an appealing option. Now we only have one of those, but there's no way the same corporate shit-stain that ordered the axing of a la carte purchases is going to tolerate players getting anything for free, so I can't see anything but a rapid downward spiral for this site's future.
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.
axing partial purchase is extremely dumb decision because it just remove one of few advantages DDB
havehad over other competitors meaning less people will join DDB and spend money there, not talking about possibility that many a la carte buyers will just decide that spending 10 minutes homebrewing stuff easier that buying whole book...tldr DDB decision just boosted piracy and roll20 by their own stupidity for questionable profits (if they even be profitable) typical corporate hamster mindset with refusing to look into near future.
Just saw the marketplace changes and had comment somewhere. How does Hasbro think this was gonna go? The user's tanked subscriptions last time the company did something so moneygrubbing and short sighted. Did they think we'd all just be like, o well that's just how it is I guess?
Just adding to the angry voices.
I was on the Beyond trial and it was set to renew on Monday. Once I saw this change and cancelled immediately. I put down the reason was this change took away any value this site had for me. I'm not going to spend full price when I only need a few pages of the book. I can just find the PDF elsewhere and go back to paper and pencil.
Classic example of corporate greed pushing people back to the high seas.
I'm pretty disappointed that they're stopping the a la carte purchasing options. That was one of the best features and having the cost of purchased piecemeal content deducted from a books total cost was a great stepping stone to building up a content library.
This was the example of how microtransactions could be implemented in a fair and reasonable way? I guess if I only have a few dollars to spend on D&D Beyond I can buy digital dice to roll on a virtual table top that's so virtual it doesn't even exist yet.
The loss of a la carte purchases as they call them, is a real shame for me. I cannot commit to $30/$70 at a time, but $2-5 on occasion isn't too bad.
I also feel the subscriptions are pointless, why not have a subscription service (like paradox) ca. $3-7 that offers access to all content (core/non-core could be diff tiers) as long as you have it active? As most people mention the key things a lot on here care about is access to races/subclasses/feats etc.
Does anyone know any good alternative websites to go to instead? I was planning on buying the book of many things feat alone, but saw the new design. I hate it. And I already have spent too much on here in these "À la carte" purchases and some sourcebooks, because that was more convenient than spending over $300 to get the full books.
So, any good sites?
This just removed most of the site's value. Bring back a la carte--especially as we now need to use Customer Service to get the rest of the book later? That's ridiculous.
I really hope that Hasbro, WOTC, and the DnDBeyond team are all channeling the message to the top that DNDBeyond is the one of if not the biggest advantage DND has on other systems. Lowering the barrier of entry and barrier of maintenance of a game is huge even when people don't realize it. I find the new store harder to identify the information I care about such as what digital products I don't own, and don't understand the change of removing a la carte purchases. I would imagine the a la carte purchase option would fit in perfectly with some potential monetization options for the upcoming VTT and Maps features by giving smaller cost options that can be paired with small cost aesthetic VTT options such as visual affects, special token and color options, etc. Someone purchasing 5 monsters for 1.99 and a visual or sound effect pack for each monster at 1.99 is giving you ~20 bucks. Someone being mad that they have to buy a full adventure book to get stats for 5 monsters is likely paying you 0.
I've spent more than I'd like to admit on books over the past couple years, and one of the few reassuring things was that I didn't need to commit a full $30 for a couple of statblocks. Being able to pick up something on the fly for like $2 and knowing that I could buy the book at a discount down the road was a massive selling point.
Agreed. Another poor, anti-consumer change.