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

[Burnside]

No, I don't think so.

There won't be anything messed-up, and certainly nothing is going to change functionality-wise.

This isn't a videogame. Note that my master sub extends past September, despite it being currently cancelled, so I will be benefiting from this, if I buy the PHB online (which I probably will - let's be real).

The most recent early-access thing (Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye) had several errors when first released, which did indeed get flagged by those of us with early access and corrected before the general release.

EDIT: No wait, it wasn't the Vecna one - it was the Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth that had multiple errors and got fixed.

 

[Zaukrie]

What a horrible thread. Unreal.

 

[Belen]

Are you offering to pay it for people who -- for whatever reason -- cannot afford it?

If not, I'm not sure what your point is, unless it's to shame people for having less disposable income than you do.

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.

 

[KYRON45]

No, it isn't. It's reality.

What other Beyond products had major "beta test"-type issues at launch? I feel like I'm talking to people who have either never used Beyond, or only recently started.

I'm not a Beyond scholar so I do not have my reference materials and footnotes handy; but this being a place where people like us gather...someone will be along to point out any failings.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I'm not a Beyond scholar so I do not have my reference materials and footnotes handy; but this being a place where people like us gather...someone will be along to point out any failings.

Yeah I'll wait.

Because the reality is Beyond doesn't launch books in a "beta" state. It's just a digital version of what's in the rulebooks. Almost nothing even ever has to be fixed, because they tend to get the implementation right the first time.

 

[KYRON45]

Yeah I'll wait.

Because the reality is Beyond doesn't launch books in a "beta" state. It's just a digital version of what's in the rulebooks. Almost nothing even ever has to be fixed, because they tend to get the implementation right the first time.

You're probably right.

 

[Belen]

No, it isn't. It's reality.

What other Beyond products had major "beta test"-type issues at launch? I feel like I'm talking to people who have either never used Beyond, or only recently started.

You can visit the bug section on the forums. I have seen new content releases have character sheet bugs etc,

 

[Belen]

yeah, that won’t happen, the printed books you get two weeks later are from the same print run, they just sat in the warehouse longer

No one is saying the bugs are in the print edition. They will be in the character sheet software.

 

[Burnside]

Yeah I'll wait.

Because the reality is Beyond doesn't launch books in a "beta" state. It's just a digital version of what's in the rulebooks. Almost nothing even ever has to be fixed, because they tend to get the implementation right the first time.

Every DNDBeyond release has bugs (bad links, content not integrated into character sheets, etc). They all get threads in the forums there. Most of them get fixed fairly quickly, although some never do.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

You can visit the bug section on the forums. I have seen new content releases have character sheet bugs etc,

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.

Every DNDBeyond release has bugs (bad links, content not integrated into character sheets, etc). They all get threads in the forums there. Most of them get fixed fairly quickly, although some never do.

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!).