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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9205635" data-attributes="member: 467">I think this underestimates the degree to which people will go with an official source assuming that source offers what they want. Alternatives -- publishers and play venues -- exist because WotC does not provide everything everyone wants. WotC providing more means they are consolidating. Consolidation generally means someone is getting the short end of the stick.Mike Shae made an interesting point recently on his show that i think is worth talking about here. If WotC really wanted to criple other VTTs, one tool they could use is to make it super easy to import and use Beyond material in those VTTs. This would mean that instead of buying the adventure or sourcebook on Fantasy grounds or Roll 20, people would buy it on Beyond. That gets them in the ecosystem and denies those other places revenue. Once they are in the ecosystem, the development of the apparent two parallel VTTs by WotC means that as Roll20 and FG offer fewer benefits, people will just start using the integrated VTT in Beyond -- whether they want to simple map and token thing, or the complex 3D thing.It is not guaranteed to work that way, of course, but I don't think it is bonkers to suggest WotC would prefer to make more money themselves rather than giving some of that money to other companies.</blockquote>