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so if I buy everything, does that mean they have to offer me PDFs then? Don’t think so, it’s more like these are two completely unrelated topics

these aren't PDFs, but yes, you can print the content

it’s one of the reasons why I prefer ToV (or really any other publisher, that one just happens to offer something close to 5e). Not saying I will never buy anything on DDB ever again, but it will be few and far between at a minimum. The price hike does not help that either… Something being...

just because something is not required to live does not mean they are above criticism. You can be fine with that, that doesn’t mean that everyone else has to be as well agreed, and all that was said is that some people are considering whether it still is worth that

as I said, that response completely misses to address any of the points I made… I too have no expectation that prices never go up, but inflation has zero to do with this increase, it is about maximizing profits

I have given plenty of reason, starting with the 50% profit margin and the fact that the price is based on the print price, not the DDB cost. The problem with the case as presented by you on the other hand is that it addresses none of my points and fails to be reflected in reality. We know...

they can do whatever they want, and I can complain about it when I want. Not sure why you feel the urge to defend them sure, but that point is not really reached when you have a 50% or so profit margin, probably considerably higher for DDB, is it…

did they mention what is included in the pass somewhere? If so I missed that Apart from that I agree, assuming your only other option is to buy all or nothing this way, not individual items

the price they would need to charge is obviously dependent on the development costs. The price they actually do charge is based on a percentage of the book price however, which is much higher than the price would be if it actually were based on the development cost. Ultimately the development...

new one, singular. We are talking about the Ravenloft book. I expect the $40 to also be the price for new releases going forward (rather than the $30 of the last however many years) they can, but 1) 33% at once, 2) with increased sales those cost are essentially flat for a digital release, so...

the new one costs $40, if you do not believe that this is the new baseline for books going forward I don’t know what to tell you

DDB ‘books’ cost $30, the new one costs $40, so $10 more, which is a 33% increase

price increases vary, not everything increases in lockstep with the overall inflation rate. If printing got cheaper then it makes sense for books to not get more expensive at the same rate. In any case, we were talking about DDB I believe, and that just had a 33% price hike for the new book...

basically to host them on Google Drive restricted to view-only, no download, no printing. There probably are other options too

not copies, just the ability to view them, which is something that is generally permitted anyway and not dependent on the whims of one company

they are free to complain about a 33% price hike, and stop buying the product as a consequence of it. Not sure why you need to try to turn this into a ‘nothing to see here folks, move on’ moment not a good one though, a properly laid out and linked PDF as offered by everyone else is better...

I’d rather have a PDF, but I’ll settle for getting a PDF along with the DDB content ;) As to being able to share, you can host the PDF and give them access that way, this is not really something that sets DDB apart

it’s what they are doing…

their printed books are about on par with other parties, their digital price just jumped ahead of the pack. Whatever savings they have from volume mostly goes to their 50% profit margin, not as a discount to the customers