New player here. We started using this site because of individual purchases. I was about to get a full subscription, but I saw this. We won't be using the site anymore. What a shame.
Please return individual purchase. I don't want to spend money of stuff I won't immediately use. The value of a whole book is not there for me when i just want one magic item, spell, or subclass.
Just want to add to the canon here: I am very unhappy about the shop redesign and the vanishing of the piecemeal shopping opportunity. This, dear WotC, is a pure money-making and less customer friendly move.
In addition to that, I think there is another change: when there were monsters in previous adventures, you could use them in the encounter builder even if you didnt own the Monster Manual. It looks like that this convenience also is gone which is another downside of the new setup
The loss of a la carte purchases is disastrous for me as a player.
I was dissatisfied with tracking my character details in a paper notebook at the gaming table. However, after trying out a laptop with D&D Beyond for several sessions, I finally decided that the format was just too cumbersome. As a result, I had decided to buy an inexpensive tablet computer in a couple months to use together with D&D Beyond regularly at the table. That seemed like it would be a perfect long-term solution to my problem.
Now that I can no longer buy Player Character options only as I need them, I'm being forced to seriously reconsider my plan. I'm going to delay buying the tablet and see if I can figure out how to make paper work for me instead.
I'm really irritated that I'm being forced to revisit my decision.
Cutting that feature is such a corporate "maximizing" profit move. It's disgusting and defeats the purpose of a digital platform. You buy a physical book because you can't just rip out the pages you want, digitally everything is already tabulated and broken apart so getting the parts you need doesn't cause any extra work on the back end. Hasbro really must have a short term memory if they can't see pissing on their base of paying individuals with bullshit corporate decisions does not end well.
I was considering spending money with DnD again but this decision has made me realize they don't deserve it. I am tired of corporate monoliths with billions of dollars thinking the only option is to squeeze every penny from the consumer. The issue is C-suite salaries, stock buybacks, and the mentality that the only thing that matters is more money.
Absolutely miserable decision to remove individual character purchases. In this economy, there's no way the average player can drop $30+ CAD on a whole book for a new race or class option. I'd get a handful of the character customization bundles at once, but I can't drop that much money if I want multiple things now. Way to isolate your players again, WotC!
When people needed something specific for a campaign or player character it was always a easy option to buy that race or class feature, it also put money into Hasbro's pocket. Deciding to make only the whole book purchasable is just going to send players off to homebrew, and just not buy anything. They are liken to get nothing instead of something now more than ever. Sure, 30 dollars great, but if you make the choice of paying 30 dollars or not buying it, you just end up losing where you could have gotten something off of the items or racial or class features being bought. Limiting purchases to all or nothing is not a good move.
Has anyone mentioned how this is a sucks for people with disabilities? Like. That's one of the touted benefits of this site -accessibility. They just cut that off for funsies.
Just had a look at the new marketplace, it's terrible. I was considering buying the few books I don't own; it's not really worth the effort figuring out which those are.
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I started playing D&D from the basic box set in 1979.
I was going to purchase all the books that I was missing. But now that I can get tricked into buying preowned things, combined with the fact that I need to spend a ton of time to figure out what I'm missing by going through every item, I won't. You guys clearly know what I do own and what I don't, why be so sketchy about it?
I run a 150+ D&D community on Discord. We've been running for 2+ years. I have purchased almost EVERYTHING official at this point, and we rely on the generosity of our community for content sharing and whatnot. The decision to remove the 'a la carte' feature is absolutely asinine and disastrous for the way we run things. I now have DMs and staff who cannot run quests because monsters are unavailable to them, and we can't spontaneously purchase 8 copies of every book at $30-$40 a piece.
I have been a loyal supporter and customer for several years now, believing D&D Beyond to provide the best and most advanced access to the wonderful game we all love but this decision of yours now forces me to look elsewhere for accessibility options.
F- grade, 0 stars, Do Not Pass Go, you do NOT get $200, and at the behest of SIX. PAGES. OF. CUSTOMERS AND FANS- dear god, please reconsider this.
My biggest complaint currently is the fact that there is currently no way to filter the store to show items you don't already own.
I purchased the legendary bundle back in 2018, and stayed current for a long time, but finances have meant i could quite keep up for a bit. Trying to determine what I do and don't own was previously really easy as it would just hide what I had already purchased
The revamp itself looks nice, and I think the removal of bundles and the a la carte purchase options are a mistake, but for the love of Ilmater, let me filter the store into what I do and don't own
Honestly this. I have no idea what I already own, now. And I was just about to buy whatever books I was missing, but there's no way for me to tell that now.
New player here. We started using this site because of individual purchases. I was about to get a full subscription, but I saw this. We won't be using the site anymore. What a shame.
Please return individual purchase. I don't want to spend money of stuff I won't immediately use. The value of a whole book is not there for me when i just want one magic item, spell, or subclass.
Just want to add to the canon here:
I am very unhappy about the shop redesign and the vanishing of the piecemeal shopping opportunity. This, dear WotC, is a pure money-making and less customer friendly move.
In addition to that, I think there is another change: when there were monsters in previous adventures, you could use them in the encounter builder even if you didnt own the Monster Manual. It looks like that this convenience also is gone which is another downside of the new setup
+1
The loss of a la carte purchases is disastrous for me as a player.
I was dissatisfied with tracking my character details in a paper notebook at the gaming table. However, after trying out a laptop with D&D Beyond for several sessions, I finally decided that the format was just too cumbersome. As a result, I had decided to buy an inexpensive tablet computer in a couple months to use together with D&D Beyond regularly at the table. That seemed like it would be a perfect long-term solution to my problem.
Now that I can no longer buy Player Character options only as I need them, I'm being forced to seriously reconsider my plan. I'm going to delay buying the tablet and see if I can figure out how to make paper work for me instead.
I'm really irritated that I'm being forced to revisit my decision.
Came here to also add to the 'bring back à la carte' unofficial petition.
+1 regarding removing individual purchases being a bad decision . Posted a longer critique in PSA: The marketplace got rid of individual purchases! - General Discussion - D&D Beyond General - D&D Beyond Forums - D&D Beyond (dndbeyond.com)
Cutting that feature is such a corporate "maximizing" profit move. It's disgusting and defeats the purpose of a digital platform. You buy a physical book because you can't just rip out the pages you want, digitally everything is already tabulated and broken apart so getting the parts you need doesn't cause any extra work on the back end. Hasbro really must have a short term memory if they can't see pissing on their base of paying individuals with bullshit corporate decisions does not end well.
I was considering spending money with DnD again but this decision has made me realize they don't deserve it. I am tired of corporate monoliths with billions of dollars thinking the only option is to squeeze every penny from the consumer. The issue is C-suite salaries, stock buybacks, and the mentality that the only thing that matters is more money.
Absolutely miserable decision to remove individual character purchases. In this economy, there's no way the average player can drop $30+ CAD on a whole book for a new race or class option. I'd get a handful of the character customization bundles at once, but I can't drop that much money if I want multiple things now. Way to isolate your players again, WotC!
When people needed something specific for a campaign or player character it was always a easy option to buy that race or class feature, it also put money into Hasbro's pocket. Deciding to make only the whole book purchasable is just going to send players off to homebrew, and just not buy anything. They are liken to get nothing instead of something now more than ever. Sure, 30 dollars great, but if you make the choice of paying 30 dollars or not buying it, you just end up losing where you could have gotten something off of the items or racial or class features being bought. Limiting purchases to all or nothing is not a good move.
Has anyone mentioned how this is a sucks for people with disabilities? Like. That's one of the touted benefits of this site -accessibility. They just cut that off for funsies.
Just had a look at the new marketplace, it's terrible. I was considering buying the few books I don't own; it's not really worth the effort figuring out which those are.
I started playing D&D from the basic box set in 1979.
i feel like it was a mistake to ever buy anything on this website given how things have been over the past year
+1
I was going to purchase all the books that I was missing. But now that I can get tricked into buying preowned things, combined with the fact that I need to spend a ton of time to figure out what I'm missing by going through every item, I won't. You guys clearly know what I do own and what I don't, why be so sketchy about it?
Yeah, just going to jump on the bandwagon here-
I run a 150+ D&D community on Discord. We've been running for 2+ years. I have purchased almost EVERYTHING official at this point, and we rely on the generosity of our community for content sharing and whatnot. The decision to remove the 'a la carte' feature is absolutely asinine and disastrous for the way we run things. I now have DMs and staff who cannot run quests because monsters are unavailable to them, and we can't spontaneously purchase 8 copies of every book at $30-$40 a piece.
I have been a loyal supporter and customer for several years now, believing D&D Beyond to provide the best and most advanced access to the wonderful game we all love but this decision of yours now forces me to look elsewhere for accessibility options.
F- grade, 0 stars, Do Not Pass Go, you do NOT get $200, and at the behest of SIX. PAGES. OF. CUSTOMERS AND FANS- dear god, please reconsider this.
+1 on this .. need to get this choice back in the shop . really really sad this descision
+1
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Honestly this. I have no idea what I already own, now. And I was just about to buy whatever books I was missing, but there's no way for me to tell that now.
If I wasn't the one with the most stuff in my group, I'd have unsubed instantly, but i need that plus all the chars.
Please show me the books I own and don't own. This is a so scummy removing this simple filter.