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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3510530" data-attributes="member: 177">Looking at what I've written, I realize I need to add one adjective: &quot;...nobody has thrown well managed, seriously paid developers at the problem for a significant period of time, because there's not enough economic gain to be had.&quot;In that I mean that the developers are good enough to be able to demand a serious salary - you can throw huge amounts of money at an awful developer, and get trash for a product.In the end, the WotC effort was not serious.&nbsp; The information we have points to half-dedicated management, poor developers, or both.&nbsp; The rule set does not pose a significant barrier to having tools.&nbsp; I understand that other games have tools, but &quot;enough economic gain&quot; really does depend upon who you are - WotC is not going to bother with projects with smaller profit margins.&nbsp; The fact of the matter is that good developers and people to manage them well cost a whole lot of money.&nbsp; Maybe the DI will change the ecnomics, so that decent tools will be worth enough for their development costs.One hopes that with the DI, they'll get their acts together.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 3510530, member: 177"] Looking at what I've written, I realize I need to add one adjective: "...nobody has thrown [i]well managed[/i], seriously paid developers at the problem for a significant period of time, because there's not enough economic gain to be had." In that I mean that the developers are good enough to be able to demand a serious salary - you can throw huge amounts of money at an awful developer, and get trash for a product. In the end, the WotC effort was not serious. The information we have points to half-dedicated management, poor developers, or both. The rule set does not pose a significant barrier to having tools. I understand that other games have tools, but "enough economic gain" really does depend upon who you are - WotC is not going to bother with projects with smaller profit margins. The fact of the matter is that good developers and people to manage them well cost a whole lot of money. Maybe the DI will change the ecnomics, so that decent tools will be worth enough for their development costs. One hopes that with the DI, they'll get their acts together. [/QUOTE]

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