For years people have been asking for a way to see their OWNED CONTENT with a filter. I understand that as a business model you want your users to see the content that they could buy...
But your users that have already purchased content and are actively trying to simply view the purchased material are stuck in an infinite loop of being shown material they don't have access to mixed in and being told to go buy it constantly.
This following sentence is the message we get from your refusal to put in a simple "VIEW OWNED CONTENT" filter.
"Haha, I know you are trying to only view the material you can use right now, but we're CHOOSING to refuse to let you use the product as intended. Instead we will mix it in with all of the stuff you dont own. That way we can continue to bombard you with requests to buy more content. Sucks to be poor like you, if you don't want to be bombarded with more sales when trying to use what you already bought, Peasant."
Even in your newer My Encounters beta, the content is flooded with source material that we do not own. If you wanted to see only what you own, you will need to go thru filters and find all of your owned content to check off on your own. If you want to make an encounter, the last thing you want to do is to spend time looking through monsters to use and instead of a statblock, you click the monsters and get requests to purchase material instead.
I refuse to use the service any longer for this reason, and I have just canceled my subscription. Instead I will use other websites for encounter building. Even if they don't have the 25+ sourcebooks I have available to me on D&DBeyond, at least I'm not getting bombarded with sales that I'm not looking for.
P.S. Does anyone know of any internet addons that automatically hides the content you don't own? Thanks
I generally agree with your thesis here--even though it does not apply to me, I can see how it would be rather annoying to use the current search options wherein you have to constantly be manually limiting what source books you own. The part I find odd--Beyond clearly realized that would be annoying when designing the encounter builder, which is why they included an option to save your search parameters. It is clear someone designing the systems realized this could be annoying to players and slow down their ability to enjoy the game--it would be nice if that realization was carried across to other areas where one searches content.
However, while I agree with your conclusion, I will say that bold text, shouty caps, and extremely bad polling methodology are generally a poor way to effectuate change. This is something Wizards and Beyond could make more user-friendly; but no one is going to pay much attention to your post when it starts off with an inherently biased poll and only goes downhill from there.
Thanks for the response, writing while annoyed at something definitely makes you want to be a bit more animated than you should be. Based on your input I have un-bolded a few things and downgraded most of the capslock stuff. Thank you for your sobering answer, hopefully the post will hit home now with some people and my overzealous attitude will be reflected less in the post. The Poll may certainly be worded with bias, but I believe the choices are true to the intent.
Guess what! I've solved this! You can very easily create a bookmarklet which will automagically set the source filters to a preset list with a single click.
I described the process in full in this reddit post, but in case it disappears, here is the bookmarklet code:
I voted to quickly on impulse without really reading or checking the age of the poll. I would dearly love an owned filter in the encounter builder but 'please respect us' and crazy ranting stuff in the gray box is all a bit much.
Honestly an "Only Owned Content" filter, button, or setting would be preferred by the end user. However I also understand marketing and advertising new product. I propose a fair compromise of placing a small badge or icon on spells, items, feats, etc that are just advertised unpurchased add-ons. It still provides the company a way of showing it's clients new and interesting options they have yet to purchase while not wasting the extra 2 seconds it takes to select it, get sent to the sourcebooks sales page, and go back to what you were doing.
That's my two copper, take it or leave it. I would very much appreciate if this was addressed and solved.
I regret my recent purchase because as a DM I'm sufferring through this and wasting some serious time that I could be useing to create a better game for my players. But no, I have to be faced with this hostile, consumer bullying. IF I didn't have to deal with this BS, I would have, before I wrote this post, subscribed to your master tier to be able to release the content I do own to my players so they can create characters here using my content in your excellent character builder that THEY all tell me they love to use and then integrate that into my vtt.
But I'm not going through this BS again and will keep to why I wanted to buy from such a company employing such shady, greedy practices and have it for mobile reading only.
But for the record, until you all add a simple little button feature, you are a good example of being a leech on your own customers.
I regret my recent purchase because as a DM I'm sufferring through this and wasting some serious time that I could be useing to create a better game for my players. But no, I have to be faced with this hostile, consumer bullying. IF I didn't have to deal with this BS, I would have, before I wrote this post, subscribed to your master tier to be able to release the content I do own to my players so they can create characters here using my content in your excellent character builder that THEY all tell me they love to use and then integrate that into my vtt.
But I'm not going through this BS again and will keep to why I wanted to buy from such a company employing such shady, greedy practices and have it for mobile reading only.
But for the record, until you all add a simple little button feature, you are a good example of being a leech on your own customers.
This feature was added a while ago. If you go to Sources you'll see a blue "In Library" flag on each book you own or. You can even type "library" in the search bar to filter down to seeing just your owned books.
I regret my recent purchase because as a DM I'm sufferring through this and wasting some serious time that I could be useing to create a better game for my players. But no, I have to be faced with this hostile, consumer bullying. IF I didn't have to deal with this BS, I would have, before I wrote this post, subscribed to your master tier to be able to release the content I do own to my players so they can create characters here using my content in your excellent character builder that THEY all tell me they love to use and then integrate that into my vtt.
But I'm not going through this BS again and will keep to why I wanted to buy from such a company employing such shady, greedy practices and have it for mobile reading only.
But for the record, until you all add a simple little button feature, you are a good example of being a leech on your own customers.
This feature was added a while ago. If you go to Sources you'll see a blue "In Library" flag on each book you own or. You can even type "library" in the search bar to filter down to seeing just your owned books.
Yeah, except you actually have to type "library" every single time. Why isn't a simple button you can click? Even more so, why doesn't it save the setting so I don't have to type "library" every. single. time. I log into the site.
It's not good. It's almost as if the designers don't actually use the site themselves. Anyone that actually uses it and actually plays games can see instantly how user un-friendly it is.
I regret my recent purchase because as a DM I'm sufferring through this and wasting some serious time that I could be useing to create a better game for my players. But no, I have to be faced with this hostile, consumer bullying. IF I didn't have to deal with this BS, I would have, before I wrote this post, subscribed to your master tier to be able to release the content I do own to my players so they can create characters here using my content in your excellent character builder that THEY all tell me they love to use and then integrate that into my vtt.
But I'm not going through this BS again and will keep to why I wanted to buy from such a company employing such shady, greedy practices and have it for mobile reading only.
But for the record, until you all add a simple little button feature, you are a good example of being a leech on your own customers.
This feature was added a while ago. If you go to Sources you'll see a blue "In Library" flag on each book you own or. You can even type "library" in the search bar to filter down to seeing just your owned books.
Yeah, except you actually have to type "library" every single time. Why isn't a simple button you can click? Even more so, why doesn't it save the setting so I don't have to type "library" every. single. time. I log into the site.
It's not good. It's almost as if the designers don't actually use the site themselves. Anyone that actually uses it and actually plays games can see instantly how user un-friendly it is.
I was only directing them to the existence of the feature they were looking for, not making any qualitative assessment of it
Even in your newer My Encounters beta, the content is flooded with source material that we do not own.
Don't know if that was added later, but today you can literally tick off which sourcebooks to limit the My Encounters Beta to books you own. Monster Filters -> Source tick off the books you own.
You can do the same with any spell or monster search with advanced filters. Show Advanced Filters -> Source again tick off the books you own.
Thanks for the update. I admit I haven't played around with it much do to the issues describe, but I do recall having to do something like for each item I'm trying to find. Usage example: In Roll20, when you link D&D Beyond to your chrome, you can take the image of the item from beyond and have it enter the r20 chat window or show up in a handout. So easy, so cool. But...if a random chest of items or a random crew of npc's appear and you want to do the same, and then you have to do these ticks for each of them. This is simply too long and unfriendly to wade through.
Someone else made a comment to me the other day in regards to something like : "If someone has to do something to make something work the way they want / need it to work, then their point of complaint is valid? Something like that. Anyhow, any traction on this, any amount of eyes to help make this more friendly is appreciated because I do want to use these features. They are an ADDED bonus, not a necessity.
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For years people have been asking for a way to see their OWNED CONTENT with a filter.
I understand that as a business model you want your users to see the content that they could buy...
But your users that have already purchased content and are actively trying to simply view the purchased material are stuck in an infinite loop of being shown material they don't have access to mixed in and being told to go buy it constantly.
This following sentence is the message we get from your refusal to put in a simple "VIEW OWNED CONTENT" filter.
Even in your newer My Encounters beta, the content is flooded with source material that we do not own. If you wanted to see only what you own, you will need to go thru filters and find all of your owned content to check off on your own. If you want to make an encounter, the last thing you want to do is to spend time looking through monsters to use and instead of a statblock, you click the monsters and get requests to purchase material instead.
I refuse to use the service any longer for this reason, and I have just canceled my subscription. Instead I will use other websites for encounter building. Even if they don't have the 25+ sourcebooks I have available to me on D&DBeyond, at least I'm not getting bombarded with sales that I'm not looking for.
P.S. Does anyone know of any internet addons that automatically hides the content you don't own? Thanks
I generally agree with your thesis here--even though it does not apply to me, I can see how it would be rather annoying to use the current search options wherein you have to constantly be manually limiting what source books you own. The part I find odd--Beyond clearly realized that would be annoying when designing the encounter builder, which is why they included an option to save your search parameters. It is clear someone designing the systems realized this could be annoying to players and slow down their ability to enjoy the game--it would be nice if that realization was carried across to other areas where one searches content.
However, while I agree with your conclusion, I will say that bold text, shouty caps, and extremely bad polling methodology are generally a poor way to effectuate change. This is something Wizards and Beyond could make more user-friendly; but no one is going to pay much attention to your post when it starts off with an inherently biased poll and only goes downhill from there.
Thanks for the response, writing while annoyed at something definitely makes you want to be a bit more animated than you should be. Based on your input I have un-bolded a few things and downgraded most of the capslock stuff. Thank you for your sobering answer, hopefully the post will hit home now with some people and my overzealous attitude will be reflected less in the post. The Poll may certainly be worded with bias, but I believe the choices are true to the intent.
Guess what! I've solved this! You can very easily create a bookmarklet which will automagically set the source filters to a preset list with a single click.
I described the process in full in this reddit post, but in case it disappears, here is the bookmarklet code:
Apologies for replying to this long-dead thread, but I figured people here may want to know!
I voted to quickly on impulse without really reading or checking the age of the poll. I would dearly love an owned filter in the encounter builder but 'please respect us' and crazy ranting stuff in the gray box is all a bit much.
Honestly an "Only Owned Content" filter, button, or setting would be preferred by the end user. However I also understand marketing and advertising new product. I propose a fair compromise of placing a small badge or icon on spells, items, feats, etc that are just advertised unpurchased add-ons. It still provides the company a way of showing it's clients new and interesting options they have yet to purchase while not wasting the extra 2 seconds it takes to select it, get sent to the sourcebooks sales page, and go back to what you were doing.
That's my two copper, take it or leave it. I would very much appreciate if this was addressed and solved.
While searching spells I run across this problem a lot. A spell is listed and then when you click on it it takes you to a sales page.
It would be nice if they just somehow marked the not owned yet products during your search so you do not waste time clicking on them.
I regret my recent purchase because as a DM I'm sufferring through this and wasting some serious time that I could be useing to create a better game for my players. But no, I have to be faced with this hostile, consumer bullying. IF I didn't have to deal with this BS, I would have, before I wrote this post, subscribed to your master tier to be able to release the content I do own to my players so they can create characters here using my content in your excellent character builder that THEY all tell me they love to use and then integrate that into my vtt.
But I'm not going through this BS again and will keep to why I wanted to buy from such a company employing such shady, greedy practices and have it for mobile reading only.
But for the record, until you all add a simple little button feature, you are a good example of being a leech on your own customers.
This feature was added a while ago. If you go to Sources you'll see a blue "In Library" flag on each book you own or. You can even type "library" in the search bar to filter down to seeing just your owned books.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
Yeah, except you actually have to type "library" every single time. Why isn't a simple button you can click? Even more so, why doesn't it save the setting so I don't have to type "library" every. single. time. I log into the site.
It's not good. It's almost as if the designers don't actually use the site themselves. Anyone that actually uses it and actually plays games can see instantly how user un-friendly it is.
I was only directing them to the existence of the feature they were looking for, not making any qualitative assessment of it
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
Don't know if that was added later, but today you can literally tick off which sourcebooks to limit the My Encounters Beta to books you own.
Monster Filters -> Source tick off the books you own.
You can do the same with any spell or monster search with advanced filters.
Show Advanced Filters -> Source again tick off the books you own.
Thanks for the update. I admit I haven't played around with it much do to the issues describe, but I do recall having to do something like for each item I'm trying to find. Usage example: In Roll20, when you link D&D Beyond to your chrome, you can take the image of the item from beyond and have it enter the r20 chat window or show up in a handout. So easy, so cool. But...if a random chest of items or a random crew of npc's appear and you want to do the same, and then you have to do these ticks for each of them. This is simply too long and unfriendly to wade through.
Someone else made a comment to me the other day in regards to something like : "If someone has to do something to make something work the way they want / need it to work, then their point of complaint is valid? Something like that. Anyhow, any traction on this, any amount of eyes to help make this more friendly is appreciated because I do want to use these features. They are an ADDED bonus, not a necessity.