Bring Back A La Carte

Quote from Lamoon01 >>

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.

Forever wishing they would bring a la carte back... There are so many subclasses I would have paid a few dollars for, but I really don't want to buy a whole book... again... because I already have them as physical copies... I also think it's insane that we would have to buy the books twice to be able to use them on d&d beyond AND to have physical copies. I feel like doing something like they do with the Warhammer codex's would be great. They shrink wrap the codex's and you can put in a code to have access to everything in the app. Just have to buy once.

Quote from ChemicalCatastrophe >>

They shrink wrap the codex's and you can put in a code to have access to everything in the app. Just have to buy once.

 It's been brought up before: Any copies where the shrink wrap is broken instantly become less valuable and the LGS has to eat the cost. It's risky to even carry those.

Quote from ChemicalCatastrophe >>

Forever wishing they would bring a la carte back... There are so many subclasses I would have paid a few dollars for, but I really don't want to buy a whole book... again... because I already have them as physical copies... I also think it's insane that we would have to buy the books twice to be able to use them on d&d beyond AND to have physical copies. I feel like doing something like they do with the Warhammer codex's would be great. They shrink wrap the codex's and you can put in a code to have access to everything in the app. Just have to buy once.

 a la cart i think won't return, they literally made the class stater packs  as an cheaper alternative, but having an access code in the phisikal books I think would not be a so bad Idea, but these books have to be more expensive than the books witout code( bcause both should exist some with code and some without it),  you also have to pay VTT of books for other VTT platforms, but a la cart may never retun because of the growiing list of spells, backround, Monster, Magic Items and Feats that make it less useful. This is the reason the Starter Packs are an alternative for is and yes there not all options are in there but it is a compromise.