Are you for real? Is this some kind of joke? You're selling those books DOUBLE the price of their retails price on publishers site? I know that it's translated to Beyond etc. that you have automated character sheet, but wasn't that subscription I pay for? We can'ty even download PDF file of books because technically we only own license to view them on your website or app, not mentioning all the effort to allow friends to take a look into the book. Reconsider your pricing because it's a rip off.
While you're correct that D&D Beyond charges more for their digitally integrated version than Ghostfire Gaming does for a basic PDF (although it's not actually double), I noticed something interesting. Dungeons of Drakkenheim and Monsters of Drakkenheim are also sold on their store as FoundryVTT modules for almost the same markup. So this wouldn't indicate one of two things. Either
1) Ghostfile Gaming is setting the price point for digital offerings on other platforms so this price wouldn't be at least entirely in DDBs control and you should direct some (if not all) your ire at Ghostfire Gaming, or
2) Transforming their products from PDF to actually digitally integrated platforms represents a significant enough investment of resources to justify the markup regardless of platform, in which case your ire should be cooled as this is not some "rip off" but just the nature of the fundamental difference between a PDF and a digitally integrated product
Are you for real? Is this some kind of joke? You're selling those books DOUBLE the price of their retails price on publishers site? I know that it's translated to Beyond etc. that you have automated character sheet, but wasn't that subscription I pay for? We can'ty even download PDF file of books because technically we only own license to view them on your website or app, not mentioning all the effort to allow friends to take a look into the book.
Reconsider your pricing because it's a rip off.
While you're correct that D&D Beyond charges more for their digitally integrated version than Ghostfire Gaming does for a basic PDF (although it's not actually double), I noticed something interesting. Dungeons of Drakkenheim and Monsters of Drakkenheim are also sold on their store as FoundryVTT modules for almost the same markup. So this wouldn't indicate one of two things. Either
1) Ghostfile Gaming is setting the price point for digital offerings on other platforms so this price wouldn't be at least entirely in DDBs control and you should direct some (if not all) your ire at Ghostfire Gaming, or
2) Transforming their products from PDF to actually digitally integrated platforms represents a significant enough investment of resources to justify the markup regardless of platform, in which case your ire should be cooled as this is not some "rip off" but just the nature of the fundamental difference between a PDF and a digitally integrated product
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