D&D (2024) Early access to 2024 books in DnDBeyond is tied to subscription tier.

[MonsterEnvy]

What a horrible thread. Unreal.

Many people with grudges and pointless fear mongering of what could happen in the future.

 

[Burnside]

Yeah and they're extremely minor and very few in number, typically. You acting like we're beta-testing some game that's going to be up and down and full of bugs is hilarious and obviously untrue. At most we might spot a couple of bugs that they probably won't even have fixed by release anyway.

Yeah really minor ones 99% of people will never notice EXCEPT the content not integrated stuff - which isn't a bug, it's a decision, in most cases, which why it's still not integrated even though they've said repeatedly that they "want to" integrate it (if you wanted to so much, why hasn't it happened? Theros has been out for over 4 years!).

Tasha's absolutely had stuff that was just bugged, not "decided not to implement". Took weeks, in some cases months, for them to fix it.

The adventures don't tend to have loads of technical issues because technically they are less complex. But there are still bad links, bad copypastes, etc. But every time DNDBeyond releases a splatbook, there are LOTS of bugs. And yes, other stuff that they don't even try to implement (most notoriously from the MTG sourcebooks).

The bug thread for Tasha's there is like 160+ pages long, and new bugs keep cropping up.

 

[mamba]

The bug thread for Tasha's there is like 160+ pages long, and new bugs keep cropping up.

so much for them getting fixed in the two weeks of early access

 

[Burnside]

so much for them getting fixed in the two weeks of early access

The general point that folks who get early access end up seeing at least some bugs that will get fixed before general release is true, though.

 

[The Firebird]

Early access seems like a must for any content creator wanting to analyze the new books. I don't see the benefit for anyone else.

How long until we see subscription only content? I'd say a matter of time.

 

[Burnside]

FWIW, I will be pretty surprised if the new PHB release on DNDBeyond isn't kind of a technical mess, at least short-term.

I also expect outrage accompanied by general glitchiness when the 2014 PHB gets pulled from the marketplace area and moved into Legacy with VGTM & MToF.

 

[mamba]

How long until we see subscription only content? I'd say a matter of time.

are you talking things like a one-shot or whole adventure paths / supplements / core books?

The former probably sooner rather than later, the other, no idea

 

[DarkCrisis]

No. I am using the logic that everyone on the boards use all the time that if you look at the time/cost ratio, then it is cheap. 5 people in my group use DDB for around 20 hours per month for $4.58. For my players, they do not have to subscribe or buy the books. At all.

The comment is that a master tier is expensive. It is not. Nor is it about disposable income because if 4.58 is an issue, then you are most likely not buying the books either digital or physical either.

It's not $4.58 a month. It's a one time payment of $55. And it might surprise you that a lot of people don't have a spare $55 on any given month. At least not for things like digital books of a niche hobby.

 

[Zaukrie]

It's not $4.58 a month. It's a one time payment of $55. And it might surprise you that a lot of people don't have a spare $55 on any given month. At least not for things like digital books of a niche hobby.

Then don't subscribe.

 

[dave2008]

Oh okay, sorry that makes a lot more sense.

I think the rule is, quite honestly and genuinely "What have they done for me lately?". I think that's a reasonable position to hold with a business when looking at positives and negatives (I'd be less keen to hold it with individual people). Especially a large corporate business.

Like I said, I think there have been a lot of improvements lately on Beyond, but I only use the free options. I don't have a paid subscription so I can't discuss those tiers. Off the top of my head:

• Greater community engagement
• free adventures
• free monsters
• advice columns
• improved tagging of owned products

And looking at Beyond, I haven't seen any real improvements lately. Now, there is the VTT thing, but it still seems to be in a larval/nascent stage. I was honestly expecting it to be improve pretty rapidly, I guess I've been spoiled by all the vendors I'm working with at work atm, who have done some great rapid improvement of their products (and a lot of them are a lot smaller than Beyond). If they do get the VTT up to scratch, like, where it's worth using to me, absolutely then there's a good point. But I'm not even sure if there are any other real improvements they're working on.

The VTT has been slow, but I expected / hoped for that. I would rather they get it correct (if they do)

Did they ever fix stuff like options from VRGtR and now-ancient Theros not actually being available?

I don't know the issue with VRGtR. What do you mean by Theros not being available - I got it years ago on Beyond.