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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8237503" data-attributes="member: 82106">No kidding. Roll20 has a really horrible UX. I think the problem though is that there simply isn't THAT much money in RPGs that an ancillary product like a VTT can obtain the resources required to be good. I mean, AAA games are $200 million affairs. Even basic web applications require several million to develop (trust me, it feeds me). Something like a VTT is NOT a basic application, it is a gruelingly complex one, which really would take several 100 million dollars to 'do right' (and I'm just talking about functionality similar to what we see today, just polished and perfected, not some magical 3D whatever whatever). An industry which probably doesn't total IN ITS ENTIRETY at $1 billion will simply never achieve that sort of level of investment. Eventually coding and UX will all be reduced down to a largely automated AI/ML driven affair where you can pencil in what you want, and some machine somewhere can mostly build it for you, at which point we'll have things like awesome VTTs, but that era is at least 10-15 years away, maybe longer. I expect sometime approaching 2040 playing D&D online will be a pretty amazing experience. The question then is whether D&D will actually be a desirable activity to put into that context, per se.</blockquote>