We have purchased D&D books both online and offline. We are not stealing anything from WotC, but used https://dnd5e.fandom.com/wiki/D&D_5th_Edition_Wikia as a vital resource for easy and quick access to information that might take minutes at a time to look up in a hard-copy book. We're also sure as hell not going to pay for the same book more than once and DEFINITELY not going to pay a subscription fee for the right to play D&D with the materials we already own even if that was an option.
DnD beyond was a website with some real potential. It was genuinely interesting, but it's not even finished and you're already charging extortionate subscription fees and cutting off the resources most of us use just as a convenience to make life easier. We are gamers, we support the companies that make the products we love even if we don't HAVE to pay for them, because we want them to continue producing quality material.
This website has taken that good faith and thrust it back in the players' faces with an invoice of payment attached. I can guarantee that WotC will suffer for your actions. Frankly, I was just about to purchase the Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica but when I tried to find a bit of information about it, I learned the wiki had stripped all such material from its pages. So I will NOT be buying that book, because using it would only cause endless frustration for all the players in my group now that they would not be able to quickly reference the material. We have most of the other books basically memorized, but throwing a brand new one at them for a new campaign based within a setting where literally everything is going to be brand new to them? That's too much to ask when they would have no choice but to all purchase their own copies and study them for weeks to learn all that new information so that nobody will have to stop and ask about the exact wording of an ability or the interactions between members of particular guilds.
That's just not going to happen, and we are busy people. Better just to not buy the book at all. It won't be long, and WotC is going to see their numbers take a big hit from the thousands of groups making the same decision.
The wiki you reference was illegally posting copyrighted material without a license to do so.
D&D Beyond's existence has nothing to do with that fact.
We at Fandom took action because Wizards of the Coast is a valued partner and they do not want their intellectual property being posted illegally. They have made many such requests for other similar sources as soon as they are aware of their existence. We have no right or ability to refuse them that right. It really is as simple as that.
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We have purchased D&D books both online and offline. We are not stealing anything from WotC, but used https://dnd5e.fandom.com/wiki/D&D_5th_Edition_Wikia as a vital resource for easy and quick access to information that might take minutes at a time to look up in a hard-copy book. We're also sure as hell not going to pay for the same book more than once and DEFINITELY not going to pay a subscription fee for the right to play D&D with the materials we already own even if that was an option.
DnD beyond was a website with some real potential. It was genuinely interesting, but it's not even finished and you're already charging extortionate subscription fees and cutting off the resources most of us use just as a convenience to make life easier. We are gamers, we support the companies that make the products we love even if we don't HAVE to pay for them, because we want them to continue producing quality material.
This website has taken that good faith and thrust it back in the players' faces with an invoice of payment attached. I can guarantee that WotC will suffer for your actions. Frankly, I was just about to purchase the Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica but when I tried to find a bit of information about it, I learned the wiki had stripped all such material from its pages. So I will NOT be buying that book, because using it would only cause endless frustration for all the players in my group now that they would not be able to quickly reference the material. We have most of the other books basically memorized, but throwing a brand new one at them for a new campaign based within a setting where literally everything is going to be brand new to them? That's too much to ask when they would have no choice but to all purchase their own copies and study them for weeks to learn all that new information so that nobody will have to stop and ask about the exact wording of an ability or the interactions between members of particular guilds.
That's just not going to happen, and we are busy people. Better just to not buy the book at all. It won't be long, and WotC is going to see their numbers take a big hit from the thousands of groups making the same decision.
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D&D Beyond FoundersThe wiki you reference was illegally posting copyrighted material without a license to do so.
D&D Beyond's existence has nothing to do with that fact.
We at Fandom took action because Wizards of the Coast is a valued partner and they do not want their intellectual property being posted illegally. They have made many such requests for other similar sources as soon as they are aware of their existence. We have no right or ability to refuse them that right. It really is as simple as that.