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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rygar" data-source="post: 7722069" data-attributes="member: 6756765">If what I read is true, there's a really good chance they just shot themselves in the foot.  I'm reading that they're charging something like $1.99 per magic item and forcing people to rebuy books they already own which wasn't a good move.  There's a fairly decent number of gamers who are *adamantly* against microtransactions, and the manner in which this was done has a lot of potential to push people away since it is pretty much a laundry list of all the problems people have with microtransactions.  The Reddit Games thread has a fair bit complaining about that already.Requiring a Twitch account was also a really bad idea.  Twitch is very polarizing, it's going to be a deal breaker for some number of people.  Forcing people to sign up for social media sites, especially single purpose sites whose popularity may very well be only due to people dreaming about being the next Pewdiepie, isn't a selling point.So I'm really not seeing the "Killer app" here, I don't think there's a large number of people who wanted to play D&D but chose not to because it involved books.  Especially since the last time I looked Ebook penetration plateaued and hardbacks were outselling it.  Of those who would be interested, I don't think there's a large number interested in paying a fair bit of money to rebuy the books they already own, and I don't think there's anyone who is going to be willing to pay $1.99 to look at a magic item.So I'm really not sure who this product is meant to be marketed to, I really can't see any way in which it will draw in new customers.I'll reiterate, if WOTC wants to expand the customer base, it's time for them to figure out how computers work and release a functional proprietary virtual table top device instead of messing around with a mobile app with no clear market.  Make the game easier to play by using computers to enhance the experience, computers have more uses than creating images of books.</blockquote>

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