D&D 5E (2024) Lorwyn: First Light has been released

[Clint_L]

Book publishing traditionally has tiny profit margins. That’s why WotC is so desperate to diversify D&D, and do as much digital sales as possible.

That said, I have no interest in this product so the $15 is moot. I’m trying to reduce complexity in my games, not expand it.

 

[Zardnaar]

Rough.

"D&D is under monetized."

Well we said this would happen but got told to shut up.
$15 bucks 32 pages digital yeah nah you can shove that up your candy ass sideways (wotc not you).

 

[Yaarel]

Coulda sworn that goalpost was over here a moment ago.

Artwork is content.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Well we said this would happen but got told to shut up.
$15 bucks 32 pages digital yeah nah you can shove that up your candy ass sideways (wotc not you).

I'm glad you clarified the last bit

 

[Zardnaar]

I'm glad you clarified the last bit

Thought I had better add it. Fairly confident Scrine wouldn't take it wrong but you never know.

 

[mamba]

Well, yes, precisely. That's the point, that's how this works.

yes, but that is also what makes these DLCs highly overpriced

 

[mamba]

There's a key phrase here. "Don't eat your seed corn."

yeah, I was not complaining about the 50% of print for the digital version of the FR book though, but of the DLC for which there is no print version to begin with.

That it is priced at 50% of a hypothetical printed version instead of relative to the page count of an already expensive digital FR book makes its price ridiculously overpriced. Most other publishers sell something with that amount of pages for $5 to $7.50

And so WotC goes to great lengths to keep the game stores solvent.

Changing things on the back end so that Amazon isn't undercutting the game stores was one step.

eh, that was a step to give WotC’s direct sales a leg up. Now they are undercutting the game stores themselves at a price not even Amazon can compete with, and anecdotally sales at game stores are down ever since WotC started selling directly. So much for this being about protecting stores