Getting priced out of the game...

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No, it is on topic to help the OP understand that they are not being priced out of the game and that there are a myriad of options available for them to enjoy the game. Fixate on this off-topic discussion if you want though. 

 Where did the OP ask for cheaper or free options? They asked if anyone else was feeling the pinch related to the cost of content that is for sale. The argument of free content is just a red herring being used to draw attention away from the question asked as well as discussion about other ways costs have been increased by removing options from the site.

 

Except the overwhelming consensus here is no, people are not "feeling the pinch"; the price bump is minimal for people who can afford to regularly purchase books, with or without a discount that most people never qualified for in the first place stacking on top of sales, and ALC is coming up a lot more as a "what about" than a make a break for people remaining engaged. The 3PP can breed FOMO with all the extra content flying around, but again in terms of pound for pound value the only claim since the OP of a table being impacted by the prices is from a FLGS selling at well over MSRP, which is not something WotC has any control over. There's no red herring because nothing in this body of dialogue indicates there's an endemic issue.

 A consensus only requires agreement no facts or logic are required.

The OP didn't specify purchase frequency or first/3rd party content.

ALC is an interesting issue when it comes to costs, but there are still several threads on the topic, and it comes up frequently in threads not directly about it being removed.

Where did the OP mention FLGS's?

Red herrings abound as the arguments used to dismiss the OP have nothing to do with the OP.