Hi! I would like to know is there will be some way of purchasing a version of the physical+digital PHB Bundle but with the now released Spanish edition of the physical book instead of the original English one.
When Wizards first started to publish themselves the core rulebooks in other languages, the books could be purchased directly in the Dungeons & Dragons website, but now there is no mention to the new French, Italian, German or Spanish edition of the core books in that website. I plan to buy at least the physical PHB and the DMG in Spanish, and I had some kind of confirmation that I could benefit from a discount in the digital D&DBeyond version of that content, I would wait and purchase that kind of Bundle. If that is not gonna be the case, I would like to know in order to buy the physical book in my book shop.
As far as I know (I'm in the UK) those of us in Europe can't buy the physical/digital bundles from D&D Beyond but need to go to a localised website. If you try https://dndstore.wizards.com/eu you might already be able to get a Spanish language bundle and if there isn't one try contacting their customer service and asking if it's going to be released in the future
The translated 2014 books were available to purchase in the official EU Wizards D&D Online Store, the one you mention: https://dndstore.wizards.com/eu. Unfortunately, when the new 2024 core rulebooks were announced, those translated editions dissapeared from that web. There is the option to buy the books in English, and any Bundle you can purchase in D&DBeyond, but there is no mention to the translated books. And it's weird, because those translated editions are nowadays published by Wizards themselves (contrary to what happened until five or so years ago, when they used to sold the rights to local publishers so they managed and published the translated book in each country).
I'd ask in the customer service of the EU D&D website, but that service is just a FAQ ans a redirection to the main US parent website, so I thought that maybe in these forums I'd be more lucky.
Of course that I can buy the physicals books in a local specialized book shop, I just wanted to know if Wizards had thought about offering their non-English speaking customers from outside the US the same deal as the English speaking ones. I really think that both customers and Wizards (specially the D&DBeyond part) would profit from that Bundle being available with the translated version of the physical books.
Remarkable that a company like WotC/Hasbro cannot add the translated books to the digital pool. The content is translated, and the physical books are only the printed version of that content, so I see no reason for the absence of translations in digital format.
I can see how integrating that content in a interactive web interface as the one in D&DBeyond would be complicated, and would need much more long-term planification before writing the code, so I don't blame Wizards for not having translated D&DBeyond yet. Sometime in the future, I would like to see a D&DBeyond where you could use your preferred language (I have several players in my table that are not so good with English), but I can see the technical difficulties and hard work that that would entail.
But what I really can't understand is why Wizards wouldn't even put the translated books for purchase on their official website, much less bundle it with the digital version to pump sales up, as it happens with the English version... It gives the impression that the marketing departament doesn't even know that the translated editions exist, and that is not good for sales, really. You can't sell what you don't know you have.
No need to translate Beyond (but a multi-language web is not that hard), just add a selector pointing to the different languages content. It is so easy and any web developer (and apps are usually UI wrappers to the web content) probably thinks the same that is the reason I am surprised not having it yet.
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Hi! I would like to know is there will be some way of purchasing a version of the physical+digital PHB Bundle but with the now released Spanish edition of the physical book instead of the original English one.
When Wizards first started to publish themselves the core rulebooks in other languages, the books could be purchased directly in the Dungeons & Dragons website, but now there is no mention to the new French, Italian, German or Spanish edition of the core books in that website. I plan to buy at least the physical PHB and the DMG in Spanish, and I had some kind of confirmation that I could benefit from a discount in the digital D&DBeyond version of that content, I would wait and purchase that kind of Bundle. If that is not gonna be the case, I would like to know in order to buy the physical book in my book shop.
As far as I know (I'm in the UK) those of us in Europe can't buy the physical/digital bundles from D&D Beyond but need to go to a localised website. If you try https://dndstore.wizards.com/eu you might already be able to get a Spanish language bundle and if there isn't one try contacting their customer service and asking if it's going to be released in the future
The translated 2014 books were available to purchase in the official EU Wizards D&D Online Store, the one you mention: https://dndstore.wizards.com/eu. Unfortunately, when the new 2024 core rulebooks were announced, those translated editions dissapeared from that web. There is the option to buy the books in English, and any Bundle you can purchase in D&DBeyond, but there is no mention to the translated books. And it's weird, because those translated editions are nowadays published by Wizards themselves (contrary to what happened until five or so years ago, when they used to sold the rights to local publishers so they managed and published the translated book in each country).
I'd ask in the customer service of the EU D&D website, but that service is just a FAQ ans a redirection to the main US parent website, so I thought that maybe in these forums I'd be more lucky.
Of course that I can buy the physicals books in a local specialized book shop, I just wanted to know if Wizards had thought about offering their non-English speaking customers from outside the US the same deal as the English speaking ones. I really think that both customers and Wizards (specially the D&DBeyond part) would profit from that Bundle being available with the translated version of the physical books.
Remarkable that a company like WotC/Hasbro cannot add the translated books to the digital pool. The content is translated, and the physical books are only the printed version of that content, so I see no reason for the absence of translations in digital format.
I can see how integrating that content in a interactive web interface as the one in D&DBeyond would be complicated, and would need much more long-term planification before writing the code, so I don't blame Wizards for not having translated D&DBeyond yet. Sometime in the future, I would like to see a D&DBeyond where you could use your preferred language (I have several players in my table that are not so good with English), but I can see the technical difficulties and hard work that that would entail.
But what I really can't understand is why Wizards wouldn't even put the translated books for purchase on their official website, much less bundle it with the digital version to pump sales up, as it happens with the English version... It gives the impression that the marketing departament doesn't even know that the translated editions exist, and that is not good for sales, really. You can't sell what you don't know you have.
No need to translate Beyond (but a multi-language web is not that hard), just add a selector pointing to the different languages content. It is so easy and any web developer (and apps are usually UI wrappers to the web content) probably thinks the same that is the reason I am surprised not having it yet.