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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8855526" data-attributes="member: 18">I could be convinced and I think there might be benefits to 3D over 2D, but I'd really want something very simple, and it looks like WotC are headed very hard in the direction of glitzy and flashy rather than simple and effective, at some speed.If it's not at least easier to use then current VTTs, then they've failed, frankly, because as Umbran says, even people who know what they're doing with the current ones tend to be rather vexed by them.It would definitely be surprising if they did great here, but they have a lot of money, so maybe they hired someone competent to manage this? I mean I'm not saying I believe that but... it could happen??? Maybe? I dunno. I can't rule it out.Yeah and this is another real issue.Now, they are using UE5, which gives them a bit of edge here, because it's particularly good (I understand, but from a lot of good sources, like actual developers posting about it) at creating stuff that be exported to a bunch of platforms and deal with a lot of different performance situations.Of course that's also going to create a massive disparity in how it looks/performs between those platforms. What they showed us is probably we'd get on a current-gen console, decent PC (with a Nvidia 20XX graphics card - or AMD equivalent - or better), or on a particularly high-end phone (using resolution scaling aggressively), which I suspect will be a minority of the platforms it's used on.There's a gigantic question about voice and video, and whether WotC be handling that at all, or whether they should. If they want the seamless experience they seem to, they probably should, but Roll 20 and others have attempted it and it... didn't go great.</blockquote>

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