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<blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 9223557" data-attributes="member: 72555"><p>I'm sorry, in response to "actually succeeding is hard", you cite ... trying? Trying to launch an IT project is easy, it just takes money, a match and a willingness to combine the two. They can try to create any IT project they want.</p><p></p><p>But, success? I give them a well under 50% chance of successfully launching a VTT that isn't a complete mess. Which is an easy thing to bet, because their current record is currently 0%, and they have tried at least once and failed, the effort almost collapsing WotC.</p><p></p><p>If they do launch a VTT, regardless of it being a complete mess or not, I'll bet dollars to donuts that it's initial budget was blown by at least a factor of 2. (This is usually hard to find out, because companies don't like advertising how they failed).</p><p></p><p>The thing about computers is trying to do something or planning to do something is easy. It is hard to make even a bad car, but easy to make a bad software program. But making a good car or a good program is extremely hard. So you get a lot of software that sort of barely works, and way more that don't even pass that bar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NotAYakk, post: 9223557, member: 72555"] I'm sorry, in response to "actually succeeding is hard", you cite ... trying? Trying to launch an IT project is easy, it just takes money, a match and a willingness to combine the two. They can try to create any IT project they want. But, success? I give them a well under 50% chance of successfully launching a VTT that isn't a complete mess. Which is an easy thing to bet, because their current record is currently 0%, and they have tried at least once and failed, the effort almost collapsing WotC. If they do launch a VTT, regardless of it being a complete mess or not, I'll bet dollars to donuts that it's initial budget was blown by at least a factor of 2. (This is usually hard to find out, because companies don't like advertising how they failed). The thing about computers is trying to do something or planning to do something is easy. It is hard to make even a bad car, but easy to make a bad software program. But making a good car or a good program is extremely hard. So you get a lot of software that sort of barely works, and way more that don't even pass that bar. [/QUOTE]
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