I think it's curious that people are like "WotC already considered all the options and coupons are just impossible" when it's clear that WotC benefits twice from the digital / physical bundles. They get to completely bypass the distributor and local game store / book store and sell the book at full MSRP directly to the customer plus $10 for the digital license vs the probably $15-20 they would have made on the book otherwise. $60 vs. $20 is massive.
If you want me to believe that this isn't about profits but about technology and that WotC has their best people on it, I have one question. Why can we still not gift subscriptions and books? Given the age of many D&D players, being able to gift a sub or digital content is a Must Have and yet, it doesn't exist. Also why is it still a somewhat clunky 2 step process to login to a WotC account? And when you report a showstopper issue about the DNDBeyond VTT, the response is "well it's a beta, just go back to books and dice". The reality is, there's hundreds of millions of dollars at play here and Hasbro is holding the purse strings tight. This isn't about "can't". It's about "won't".
I think it's curious that people are like "WotC already considered all the options and coupons are just impossible" when it's clear that WotC benefits twice from the digital / physical bundles. They get to completely bypass the distributor and local game store / book store and sell the book at full MSRP directly to the customer plus $10 for the digital license vs the probably $15-20 they would have made on the book otherwise. $60 vs. $20 is massive.
If you want me to believe that this isn't about profits but about technology and that WotC has their best people on it, I have one question. Why can we still not gift subscriptions and books? Given the age of many D&D players, being able to gift a sub or digital content is a Must Have and yet, it doesn't exist. Also why is it still a somewhat clunky 2 step process to login to a WotC account? And when you report a showstopper issue about the DNDBeyond VTT, the response is "well it's a beta, just go back to books and dice". The reality is, there's hundreds of millions of dollars at play here and Hasbro is holding the purse strings tight. This isn't about "can't". It's about "won't".
Apparently I never gifted a friend that copy of Lost Laboratory of Kwalish. Must have been a monetary hallucination last Christmas.
You don't have to lie about small details to say that Hasbro should allocate funds to WotC to revamp Beyond out of the coding they inherited from Fandom.
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DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Apparently I never gifted a friend that copy of Lost Laboratory of Kwalish. Must have been a monetary hallucination last Christmas.
You don't have to lie about small details to say that Hasbro should allocate funds to WotC to revamp Beyond out of the coding they inherited from Fandom.
So you can gift books but not subscriptions? That's... weird.
I think it's curious that people are like "WotC already considered all the options and coupons are just impossible" when it's clear that WotC benefits twice from the digital / physical bundles. They get to completely bypass the distributor and local game store / book store and sell the book at full MSRP directly to the customer plus $10 for the digital license vs the probably $15-20 they would have made on the book otherwise. $60 vs. $20 is massive.
If you want me to believe that this isn't about profits but about technology and that WotC has their best people on it, I have one question. Why can we still not gift subscriptions
and books? Given the age of many D&D players, being able to gift a sub or digital content is a Must Have and yet, it doesn't exist. Also why is it still a somewhat clunky 2 step process to login to a WotC account? And when you report a showstopper issue about the DNDBeyond VTT, the response is "well it's a beta, just go back to books and dice". The reality is, there's hundreds of millions of dollars at play here and Hasbro is holding the purse strings tight. This isn't about "can't". It's about "won't".Apparently I never gifted a friend that copy of Lost Laboratory of Kwalish. Must have been a monetary hallucination last Christmas.
You don't have to lie about small details to say that Hasbro should allocate funds to WotC to revamp Beyond out of the coding they inherited from Fandom.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
So you can gift books but not subscriptions? That's... weird.