+1 to bringing back a la carte in some reasonable form! I can't justify buying an entire book for just a few basic features. And it's harder to convince newer players to get onboard. It sounds like we'll never get it the way it used to be, but something close could be tolerable. Perhaps provide small packages at a fair price... e.g., If a species is purchased, provide all sub-species for it; Same for classes/sub-classes, etc.
For those interested, a quote from Brian Perry from his AMA on Reddit
'First, we know that a la carte disappeared without much notice, and we apologize for the way it was handled. Things like this AMA help create the level of transparency the community deserves. We are going to be working on ways to give players access to smaller packages of content based on what character they want to build. A la carte exactly like before is unlikely. What was starting to happen with tens of thousands of items needed to be individually checked for entitlements by our services. This was impacting site speed and stability.'
Thanks for posting that. That sounds like a fair explanation to me for altering it, but removing it entirely with little notice still feels bad. It's just a shame it's in an AMA somewhere we have to find or rely on the informed kindness of someone else on the forum remembering.
Realistically I think most people would gladly sacrifice the ability to buy a single item if they retained the ability to buy all the items in a book for $5-$10. Same for feats and even classes.
Hopefully they really are looking into bringing it back in some capacity.
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+1 to bringing back a la carte in some reasonable form! I can't justify buying an entire book for just a few basic features. And it's harder to convince newer players to get onboard. It sounds like we'll never get it the way it used to be, but something close could be tolerable. Perhaps provide small packages at a fair price... e.g., If a species is purchased, provide all sub-species for it; Same for classes/sub-classes, etc.
Thanks for posting that. That sounds like a fair explanation to me for altering it, but removing it entirely with little notice still feels bad. It's just a shame it's in an AMA somewhere we have to find or rely on the informed kindness of someone else on the forum remembering.
Realistically I think most people would gladly sacrifice the ability to buy a single item if they retained the ability to buy all the items in a book for $5-$10. Same for feats and even classes.
Hopefully they really are looking into bringing it back in some capacity.