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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5432635" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I think the problem is people underestimate the amount of time and effort that goes into creating an application like CB. It just ain't that easy, and it isn't all that cheap either. I do this stuff all day every day and just as an off-the-cuff estimate you're talking 3-5 hundred k to make a good solid complex web app or .NET app with no problem at all. Now, we can be pretty sure they have say 50k subscribers and thus something in the $3 million a year gross revenue. So maybe they can afford to put full steam ahead on 2 or possible 3 apps at a time if they just churn all the margin back into the product, which they may well be doing. The thing is no matter how much you spend on application development it only goes so fast. If they're going full speed on bringing CB up to snuff and full speed on the VTT then MAYBE they also have the added bandwidth to be working on MB at the same time, and maybe not. If takes 6-9 months to get one of these apps up in rough shape and another 3-6 months to really polish it then we can expect CB will be about finished in say another 3 months, and the VTT maybe in another 6 months, and MB might be 9-12 months out still. Of course for every app you finish you lose a bit of steam because you now have to support it as well, which means you can only ever at most end up with so many apps total. They may also be working on just general DDI stuff too if say they want to enhance the way that works and more closely integrate the community with DDI (for say things like sharing monsters and characters and being able to have campaign wikis and whatnot that dovetail into all that, or my pet theory of self publishing and whatnot). I think we'll see a LOT of evolution over the next 2 years, but it is not going to be a lightning fast process.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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