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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 7724550" data-attributes="member: 7635">Hello? WotC? This is Remathilis. We need to talk. Ok, I have nothing against yet-another digital variant of 5e coming out. I don't mind its a self-contained e-reader rather than PDF. I don't even mind that its done by the same people who did Dragon+. Lets talk about your pricing.No, not the "I'm not buying the book twice" conversation. Its the "compared to D&DBeyond, what does this app offer me?" conversation.Curse is working on an App version of D&D Beyond that will have offline capabilities. Right now, they can sell me for $30 the complete Player's Handbook. I can read it on my phone, tablet, or laptop. I can search, bookmark, and cross-reference/hyperlink. I get databases of monsters, spells, magic items, and rules, plus custom player content, and did I mention a character builder on top? This app will charge me $30 for the same PHB content, and it offers me... what advantage again?"Oh," he chortled "I don't use the character builder, I just want the rulebooks!"But, you can buy the Compendium Content only on D&DB "Purchasing this bundle unlocks the Player's Handbook book in digital format in the game compendium with all the artwork and maps, cross-linking, and tooltips. The Compendium Content bundle does not grant access to all the content’s options in the rest of the toolset, such as the searchable listings, character builder, or digital sheet." Price: $19.99. Did nobody at WotC TELL Dialect that they're product is redundant AND overpriced compared to Curse's? Is it mandated that they charge $30/$25 for per book? EVEN IF I was in the market to just buy the books to put on my device for easy carrying and never touch the character builder or databases, its STILL cheaper to buy the Compendium Only Content from D&DB for $20 a pop. Now, if WotC REALLY wants this to be the "digital PDF alternative" for 5e books, they need to do the following:1.) $19.99 per book. Sell it at the same price Curse sells Compendium Only. People who want all of D&DBeyond's bells and whistles (like the character generator and eventual encounter builder) can plunk down $10 more for the database stuff.2.) Offer a Subscription-based Model. This would be the perfect place to test out a $6.99 monthly access to all books model. People who want to own the books can buy them, but if you just want to rent them (ala music streaming services or Netflix) have an alternative. 3.) Start offering cross-platform purchases. It might be impossible to track who bought a hardcover PHB, but its much easier to know who bought Curse of Strahd on Roll 20 and offer them a discount on the D&DB or D&DReader version just by allowing the companies to share access to customer profiles. I'm not sure the technical logistics of it, but I'm thinking it can be done.4.) DMs Guild Integration. Its an E-reader; it should be able to emulate PDF reading easy enough. Allow purchases from the DM's Guild to show up on D&D Reader and the app to allow the user to read the PDF from inside it. Sure, it won't be as nice as the rendered pages of the main books, but if I buy something from DM's Guild, I'd like to have it at my fingertips the same way I can have the PHB. 5.) Web-based access. They can do it for <a href="http://www.dragonmag.com/5.0/#!/articles/106375" target="_blank">Dragon+</a>, they can do it for this. Right now, Dialect is being set up for failure because its priced equal to D&D Beyond or Roll 20, but offers 1/2 the features of either. D&D Reader should be the budget-friendly version compared to those.</blockquote>

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