But if you travel across Germany you still likely want to use public transportation at the place where you come from/go to. Especially in inner cities using car

But if you travel across Germany you still likely want to use public transportation at the place where you come from/go to. Especially in inner cities using car can be a problem, parking can be very limited and/or very expensive. The ticket is cheaper then a 4x-rabat-bundle of "one way single trip" tickets in Berlin and Berlin is by far not the most expensive city wrt. local public transportation. So even then it's a good deal. The "traveling across Germany" advertisement is less about "you want to get to place B as far as possible" but more about "you want to travel and see a lot of places eventually ending up at place B" something the DB believes students like to do (if you look at other ads or thinks like the "Quer durchs Land" ticket. Anyway the ticket is mainly for people which use (or maybe now have to use) public transportation for daily usage (e.g. to/from work). I.e. the people mostly profiting from it are the people which don't have a lot of money. Which is grate as they are also the people hardest hit by the increased costs of more or less everything.