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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9616310" data-attributes="member: 93670">The general feel I got for that why is a bit two fold.  Firstly the C suite type head of wotc/hasbro digital§ that kicked off the 3d vtt was a mtg player who wasn't really into playing d&d based on ogl fiasco rumors. Add in the Zynga techbro background and you have a product being pushed to focus on the needs of what was effectively the audience∆ of the user∆ for said product.  That led to a near flowscape÷ level learning curve and workload for the gm wanting to use it .  Since the developers were being pushed to focus on the desires of a group other than what would have been their primary user/customer by their boss's boss's boss it resulted in a focus on things that do nothing for the primary user and ultimately increase the workload involved in running the vtt alongside their own d&d session/campaign.  Anyone who has ever run their game with a vtt regularly and needed to give players tokens because players themselves couldn't be bothered to supply one to the gm before several sessions had passed could see the writing on the wall when wotc was talking up monitozing players with the vtt.§ or something similar enough to not be worth debating. ∆ the GM is the user.  Players are the GM's "audience" simply because there's not a great word to use for analogy.  Some vtts might have players interacting with it while playing across the Internet, but the vast majority of what a vtt needs to do is service the GM so the GM can run a fun game. ÷ it's a great little app made for fun by the developer for his young (5? Y/o) daughter to play with that turned out to make stunning randomly generated terrain with an impossible UI to do much more than generate random stuff.It's easier to run an android emulator like BlueStacks within Windows macos or whatever.i think you can even run Android in wine and virtualbox on top of Linux.  That can be useful if you want to play a mobile game on your PC for whatever reason</blockquote>

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