99% of the crap people homebrew is no where near balanced and printable anyway. They don't care about some rando's OP power gaming rules and items.

I am unable to access my characters and account

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I wish to give you my most heartfelt thanks. And- If I may get on my rickety old soap box out to say, this whole community should high five this person for zeroing in on, what I think is the fundamental threat, they could steal our shit. Props my fellow Human... mass props.

 

You should not give people “props” for fear mongering and bad legal analysis.  You all are afraid of standard boilerplate that every single website uses and relies upon to function.

Without this term, D&D Beyond cannot function as it currently does. If you want forums, if you want homebrew, if you want to comment on articles, Wizards needs this license, just as Fandom had similar (and actually worse from a protecting user IP rights standpoint) language.

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I wish to give you my most heartfelt thanks. And- If I may get on my rickety old soap box out to say, this whole community should high five this person for zeroing in on, what I think is the fundamental threat, they could steal our shit. Props my fellow Human... mass props.

 

 

You should not give people “props” for fear mongering and bad legal analysis.  You all are afraid of standard boilerplate that every single website uses and relies upon to function.

Without this term, D&D Beyond cannot function as it currently does. If you want forums, if you want homebrew, if you want to comment on articles, Wizards needs this license, just as Fandom had similar (and actually worse from a protecting user IP rights standpoint) language.

Thank you for all your effort this past week or two. The fact that you are giving free professional advice is painfully unappreciated. I wanted you to know that at least one person here recognizes it for what it is.

 
To be perfectly clear, I am not giving professional advice; merely giving my thoughts on the subject and my interpretation thereof.  One should not take my posts as providing advice; merely listing some additional context.

will be DND Beyond shut down once this happens?

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Any plans for posibility of adding phisical books to your library (dunno if the books have some universal id and all its real)? 

Not even sure how that would be implemented. Plenty of people would just walk into stores, take a photo of the code on the inner cover, and cheese it.

There's so many differences between digital and physical products, that making a 2-for-1 deal is almost certainly going to result in either digital retailers or physical retailers get screwed over. If you can get a free digital copy from the physical book, why pay for the digital version and vice-versa? (My assumption of the general public, not my personal statement. I personally found myself in a situation of buying both, but that came from my refusal to "get with the times" biting me in the rear under special circumstances.)

 Don't know if anyone else mentioned in the month since your comment, but this is pretty common in the music world. It's usually achieved by having a download code included within the packaging of the hard copy. It would likely mean though, that copies of the books that include a digital download (or in this code digital access on DnDB) would be shrink wrapped. Since I imagine a lot of people would be discouraged from buying a book they can't look through and WotC would want to profit as much as possible I could see them offering both standard version (not wrapped) and a version with digital download included (in shrink)

You never owned them under the old ownership lol.

They won't. This is answered in the FAQ, which may not have been up yet when you asked.

I don't know if wotc looks at comments for suggestions but they could find out how digital copy companies like vudu does their codes I know the books can't be sealed shut to contain codes but I know they did something to prevent pictures of codes being submitted and it used GPS to confirm you weren't at a store. I think that if they could figure this out then they will have added me as a customer on the app I refuse to re purchase content just for a digital copy. I can make my own pdf with my scanning machine.

most companies just put in a sealed card with a one time use code in it. Something you can only open after purchase or others even have it so when you buy it at check out the one time code is on your receipt.

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I don't know if wotc looks at comments for suggestions but they could find out how digital copy companies like vudu does their codes I know the books can't be sealed shut to contain codes but I know they did something to prevent pictures of codes being submitted and it used GPS to confirm you weren't at a store. I think that if they could figure this out then they will have added me as a customer on the app I refuse to re purchase content just for a digital copy. I can make my own pdf with my scanning machine.

 once again, DDB is not just a "digital copy". It is an entirely different product. 

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Please then further define what the "entirely different product" is because clearly we don't understand.

 A pdf of a document is an exact duplicate of the physical product in a digital form. Exact same functionality, page for page exactly the same content. DDB is not that. It is a digital toolset that is utilizing the data to be able to create characters easily as well as a dice roller, an encounter builder as well as being a resource for the information in the form of a compendium which is searchable and is able to cross reference other books with the click of a button.

DDB takes additional time and resources to not only create but to manage and host online to be able to get the functionality that it provides. the fee they charge to buy this extra content. which is already about 40% cheaper (more during sales and if you have the legendary bundle purchase) then the physical books is incredibly reasonable for what you receive.

It financially makes no sense for any company to give this product away for free with the purchase of a physical copy of the book. They would lose money in the long run. 

Also companies that do give digital copys, do not do it for free, they build it into the cost of their product. Take movies for example. buying a copy of the movie with a digital download compared to that same movie without one is generally $5 more. Some gaming companies bundle digital and physical for a higher price. others include it automatically with no option of buying just the physical.  They account for that adisnal product in the cost of the book itself.

I personally do not believe WoTC would give free book codes as they are looking to make as much money as possible. Also, this would require additional cost for each book to do so. What would be the incentive since those buying books will continue, those buying on here will continue. At most a small discount, if that. Additionally, could see that discount having to come from a specific seller or something similar or open a site to sell direct from. 

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I personally do not believe WoTC would give free book codes as they are looking to make as much money as possible. Also, this would require additional cost for each book to do so. What would be the incentive since those buying books will continue, those buying on here will continue. At most a small discount, if that. Additionally, could see that discount having to come from a specific seller or something similar or open a site to sell direct from. 

 exactly, it makes no financial sense for them to give the content for free., It will not increase the amount of people buying the physical books, especially since the digital is already cheaper. people that are buying physical will still buy the physical. it would result in a net loss of revenue.

Does WOTC plan on acquiring a platform for online gaming such as roll20???

Will you enable us to redeem physical proof of sourcebooks to have digital copies so we don't have to purchase it twice?