Removing the additional purchase option is a greedy, anti-consumer move that's ruined the marketplace. My group has used it to buy item's and subclasses but we'll never buy a whole book because we already own physical copies of the core texts. It's a slap in the face to people who use this platform and only makes DnD harder to access for newcomers. Good job bozos
I don't see myself making any future purchases from DDB or WOTC now that a la carte purchase options have been removed from D&D Beyond (even though I've always purchased the full books in both physical and digital formats). IMHO this change clearly shows that WOTC no longer cares about their fan base at all.
Even after all of your recent ludicrous shenanigans, missteps, bad press, and apologies, I've stuck with the D&D brand as a loyal fan (of over 40 years). I can no longer do that. WOTC is making it abundantly clear that fans are irrelevant to them and only deep-pocketed customers matter (though even their relevance seems to be limited to how recently they purchased anything). I had expected to spend a lot with WOTC this year due to the new sourcebooks coming out. Now, I think I'll spend that money on an entirely different system (even though I'm a legendary bundle owner, a master tier subscriber, and have an entire bookshelf full of official 5e physical books in my office).
Worse, this is yet another bad business decision. Most of the a la carte customers you had made those purchases because they either couldn't afford a full book or couldn't justify the cost when there were only a few things in it that they wanted. You may think this will turn a la carte purchasers into full-book customers, but in reality, I believe you'll likely just lose them all altogether. It will be interesting to see what WOTC / DDB revenues look like in a year. Even with the release of (most of) the updated 5e books (or whatever you're calling them this week) I suspect DDB's and probably WOTC's revenues will be significantly down by then.
Why would you throw away all those future purchases? You can't honestly believe you'll turn all of those customers into full book buyers.
It appears to me that WOTC is intent on pushing D&D fans away. Well congratulations, you succeeded. I'm done.
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Gideon Hawke Just a Valor Bard trying to find his way through D&D after a 20+ year "break". Enjoying being back and sharing with my RL family.
I've bought a bunch of subclasses in the past and races as well, but now nah bro no more money being spent on dndbeyond, such a stupid choice, I know some suits are like "Get the to buy the whole book it'lll make us more money" but come on bro, be for real, not everyone wants the full book some of us just want too buy subclasses to mess around with, ill be taking my money elsewhere, screw wotc
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Removing the additional purchase option is a greedy, anti-consumer move that's ruined the marketplace. My group has used it to buy item's and subclasses but we'll never buy a whole book because we already own physical copies of the core texts. It's a slap in the face to people who use this platform and only makes DnD harder to access for newcomers. Good job bozos
I agree.
I don't see myself making any future purchases from DDB or WOTC now that a la carte purchase options have been removed from D&D Beyond (even though I've always purchased the full books in both physical and digital formats). IMHO this change clearly shows that WOTC no longer cares about their fan base at all.
Even after all of your recent ludicrous shenanigans, missteps, bad press, and apologies, I've stuck with the D&D brand as a loyal fan (of over 40 years). I can no longer do that. WOTC is making it abundantly clear that fans are irrelevant to them and only deep-pocketed customers matter (though even their relevance seems to be limited to how recently they purchased anything). I had expected to spend a lot with WOTC this year due to the new sourcebooks coming out. Now, I think I'll spend that money on an entirely different system (even though I'm a legendary bundle owner, a master tier subscriber, and have an entire bookshelf full of official 5e physical books in my office).
Worse, this is yet another bad business decision. Most of the a la carte customers you had made those purchases because they either couldn't afford a full book or couldn't justify the cost when there were only a few things in it that they wanted. You may think this will turn a la carte purchasers into full-book customers, but in reality, I believe you'll likely just lose them all altogether. It will be interesting to see what WOTC / DDB revenues look like in a year. Even with the release of (most of) the updated 5e books (or whatever you're calling them this week) I suspect DDB's and probably WOTC's revenues will be significantly down by then.
Why would you throw away all those future purchases? You can't honestly believe you'll turn all of those customers into full book buyers.
It appears to me that WOTC is intent on pushing D&D fans away. Well congratulations, you succeeded. I'm done.
Gideon Hawke
Just a Valor Bard trying to find his way through D&D after a 20+ year "break". Enjoying being back and sharing with my RL family.
I've bought a bunch of subclasses in the past and races as well, but now nah bro no more money being spent on dndbeyond, such a stupid choice, I know some suits are like "Get the to buy the whole book it'lll make us more money" but come on bro, be for real, not everyone wants the full book some of us just want too buy subclasses to mess around with, ill be taking my money elsewhere, screw wotc