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<blockquote data-quote="smiteworks" data-source="post: 7684314" data-attributes="member: 87795">Well, the budgets for MMO games are usually in the millions of dollars range. The VTT space is growing, but it is no where near the size of an MMO market yet. There was a recent MMO built by an RPG company and we see that even a few million dollars was not enough. If there are a million users for a VTT, you'll find that 950K of them expect to use it for free.People step up to the plate all the time. The problem is that even if they get funded for $30-40K, they quickly find that it isn't enough to spend 1-2 years developing something when each programmer on the team could be making $100K or more working in the corporate world. Check KickStarter and search for &quot;virtual tabletop&quot; and you will see a few current projects, a bunch of unsuccessful projects and a few others that were successful from a funding standpoint but which are either still in early development or which have gone away or gotten absorbed into another VTT.<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?term=virtual+tabletop&amp;woe_id=0&amp;sort=magic&amp;seed=2409343&amp;page=5" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?term=virtual+tabletop&amp;woe_id=0&amp;sort=magic&amp;seed=2409343&amp;page=5</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="smiteworks, post: 7684314, member: 87795"] Well, the budgets for MMO games are usually in the millions of dollars range. The VTT space is growing, but it is no where near the size of an MMO market yet. There was a recent MMO built by an RPG company and we see that even a few million dollars was not enough. If there are a million users for a VTT, you'll find that 950K of them expect to use it for free. People step up to the plate all the time. The problem is that even if they get funded for $30-40K, they quickly find that it isn't enough to spend 1-2 years developing something when each programmer on the team could be making $100K or more working in the corporate world. Check KickStarter and search for "virtual tabletop" and you will see a few current projects, a bunch of unsuccessful projects and a few others that were successful from a funding standpoint but which are either still in early development or which have gone away or gotten absorbed into another VTT. [url]https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?term=virtual+tabletop&woe_id=0&sort=magic&seed=2409343&page=5[/url] [/QUOTE]

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