Removing the functionality wasn't effort -- it was making things easier. But yes, discontinued features rarely get a lot of development effort.
Yes, that is true, but it doesn't tie into the discussion, cool story though.
Lack of manpower is being used as a reason they haven't reinstated bundle discount stacking with sale prices, I pointed out things they have/had the manpower to do including giving things away.
My quote left out the irrelevant part of your post, your speculation on why is just your way to justify wotc crawfishing on a long used and advertised part of the bundles.They had the manpower to revamp the store and remove the functioning, and they have the manpower to add new content, and they have the manpower to add sigil mini's that are given away...
Removing the functionality wasn't effort -- it was making things easier. But yes, discontinued features rarely get a lot of development effort.
They just didn't announce it or grandfather people in when they did(What time was the mass DND Beyond firings, BTW? Was it Christmas 2021 or later?)
That's all this is about.
If they'd announced it Day 1 & Grandfather'd in people from the past, this conversation would not be happening.
Now apparently it's snowballed into being seen as ANOTHER anti-older user conspiracy by WotC(Ignoring how Hasbro has stripped WotC of their pre-2020 independence in a typical Hasbro mad cash grab, to the nearly the point of Parker Brothers-style assimilation...people are still convinced WotC has even gums, let alone their pre-Hasbro teeth at this point), & everyone who suggests anything else is making excuses &/or endorsing this mess.
Now apparently it's snowballed into being seen as ANOTHER anti-older user conspiracy by WotC
It is not a conspiracy, it is a fact they stopped honoring a long advertised and significant part of the bundles.
Have you even looked into what the actual complaint is? Spoiler it has NOTHING to do with age groups, or specific dates of marketing.
They tried to slide it by with the new and arguably worse market place, called people liars, then gave a little lip service about looking into the isse and then ignored the issue.
You keep dragging things that have nothing to do with the topic at had and rambling about hasbro blackrock and manpower et al like it excuses the removal of a benefit that was marketed and sold with a product both before and after Wizbro bought DDB. Shady doesn't begin to accurately describe the practice.
You say in this post that you "won't spend another dime" until they resume the stacking, yet your post in this thread you say you ordered Dragon Delves and it "delivered"
With all of your contradictory statements it is difficult to understand what point you are trying to make.
If your basing this entire argument on the 2022 article you linked I have two obvious questions to ask:
When did 3PP appear on the store front?
When was DDB purchased by WotC/Hasbro
If a quick search is correct the purchase was announced in April of 2022 (after the article linked) and 3PP didn't start appearing until 2023 (after the sale was finalised).
It can be reasonably assumed then that the article you're hinging your entire argument on was in reference to currently offered/future WotC products released on DDB under license. It's highly likely that the purchase of DDB changed that but I can't confirm that with a quick search.
I personally bought the Legendary Bundle in mid 2020 and have no idea what the ToS were back then - it's been a long 5 years! I still get discounts on new WotC books (including the Core Books) so I'm quite content. Stacking with other sales though? It looks like it works to me, Fizbans and Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel both drop from $30 down to $20 for me and given the normal 15% discount drops them to $25.49 that seems about right.
Short answer is your incorrect, rather than posting the same things yet again I ask that you read the post in this thread and the thread linked. Heck the post right above yours has 90% of the answers to yours.
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Yes, that is true, but it doesn't tie into the discussion, cool story though.
Lack of manpower is being used as a reason they haven't reinstated bundle discount stacking with sale prices, I pointed out things they have/had the manpower to do including giving things away.
They just didn't announce it or grandfather people in when they did(What time was the mass DND Beyond firings, BTW? Was it Christmas 2021 or later?)
That's all this is about.
If they'd announced it Day 1 & Grandfather'd in people from the past, this conversation would not be happening.
Now apparently it's snowballed into being seen as ANOTHER anti-older user conspiracy by WotC(Ignoring how Hasbro has stripped WotC of their pre-2020 independence in a typical Hasbro mad cash grab, to the nearly the point of Parker Brothers-style assimilation...people are still convinced WotC has even gums, let alone their pre-Hasbro teeth at this point), & everyone who suggests anything else is making excuses &/or endorsing this mess.
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It is not a conspiracy, it is a fact they stopped honoring a long advertised and significant part of the bundles.
Have you even looked into what the actual complaint is? Spoiler it has NOTHING to do with age groups, or specific dates of marketing.
They tried to slide it by with the new and arguably worse market place, called people liars, then gave a little lip service about looking into the isse and then ignored the issue.
You keep dragging things that have nothing to do with the topic at had and rambling about hasbro blackrock and manpower et al like it excuses the removal of a benefit that was marketed and sold with a product both before and after Wizbro bought DDB. Shady doesn't begin to accurately describe the practice.
You say in this post that you "won't spend another dime" until they resume the stacking, yet your post in this thread you say you ordered Dragon Delves and it "delivered"
With all of your contradictory statements it is difficult to understand what point you are trying to make.
If your basing this entire argument on the 2022 article you linked I have two obvious questions to ask:
If a quick search is correct the purchase was announced in April of 2022 (after the article linked) and 3PP didn't start appearing until 2023 (after the sale was finalised).
It can be reasonably assumed then that the article you're hinging your entire argument on was in reference to currently offered/future WotC products released on DDB under license. It's highly likely that the purchase of DDB changed that but I can't confirm that with a quick search.
I personally bought the Legendary Bundle in mid 2020 and have no idea what the ToS were back then - it's been a long 5 years! I still get discounts on new WotC books (including the Core Books) so I'm quite content. Stacking with other sales though? It looks like it works to me, Fizbans and Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel both drop from $30 down to $20 for me and given the normal 15% discount drops them to $25.49 that seems about right.
Short answer is your incorrect, rather than posting the same things yet again I ask that you read the post in this thread and the thread linked. Heck the post right above yours has 90% of the answers to yours.