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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cody C. Lewis" data-source="post: 7684437" data-attributes="member: 6802841">First off, I am absolutely thrilled that you are active here [MENTION=87795]smiteworks[/MENTION]. Getting direct input and feedback through a forum like this is simply great. I am also serious when I say I have, in the last month, approached my group to moving over to your software. We are by no means blindly loyal to our current VTT, that we would ignore the vast amount of improvements I have seen since your company acquired FG. I mean that with earnest. Anyone who has followed the product before and after, I'm sure would echo my feelings about just how much it has improved.But I don't want to be overly critical of FG publicly. I think FG is in fact, a great product. I could not play weekly as I currently do without VTTs and I feel just like when Android started to really catch up with the iPhone; competition is what drove innovation. I hope competition between Virtual Tabletop companies will drive all of those with skin in the game to constantly improve and provide us end users with more and more innovation.The only reason I made a comment about the KP/WotC/FG relationship is because at it's core it concerns me. I want innovation. I have seen what WotC has done over the past decade and it does not make me feel better about their involvement in anything outside of what they do best, Dungeons & Dragons. Not to pile on, but even that hasn't had a great history of rock-solid decision making over that period. I also get the TTRPG industry is not a huge one, and that all of the players involved probably know each other. I am sure whatever arrangements that have been made between a publisher and their partners are not ones made hastily.However, I cannot trust WotC just yet. Has WotC 'pulled the rug out' from under other companies in the last ten years? Some people feel like they have. Look at the transition from the OGL to the GSL and then ultimately nothing for 5e. Just look at the formatting Necromancer Games has and Kobold Press will have to use when they publish their monster blocks... its silly. KP collaborated on official 5e material in a partnership and they are having to use backdoor workarounds just to put a product out on the market that is relevant to what people are interested in right now. Paizo got left in the dust when they as a company didn't feel confident in producing ONLY 4e stuff. Tough, WotC's GSL wouldn't allow companies to produce material for both. So yes, I have trepidation when I think that WotC will have/could have... influence involving a great piece of software like what FG is blossoming into. If B2B sales have taught me anything about how delicate the relationship is between a manufacturer and a distributor is this: The manufacturer, or in this case publisher, has the control contrary to popular belief. Nike may need Foot Locker to cut them POs, but trust me, if Nike pulled all of their shoes out of Foot Locker, Nike would be just fine. Foot Locker would be the business trying to stay afloat with just Reebok and Adidas. I hope WotC doesn't affect the path that FG is on. It is a good one.</blockquote>

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