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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8604730" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I wasn't really thinking of any specific company. Just noting that the dependency on Silverlight was a really, really unwise move; the future of Silverlight was already dubious in 2010, when they first announced the move to that platform, and people were calling the platform dead just a year later. This further compounded the issues caused by the horrific murder-suicide on their tech team, among other behind-the-scenes issues that plagued 4e and had nothing to do with the actual design of the game. (Seriously, 4e got dealt just about the worst possible hand imaginable: launching at the start of a recession that took out one of the major bookstores of the time, the aforementioned murder-suicide crippling their tech development essentially permanently, having to push the books out the door a little earlier than maybe they should have, hitching their digital-tools cart to Silverlight only for it to be deprecated shortly thereafter; the list goes on. Some of these issues were self-inflicted, like the idiotic handling of the GSL which directly drove the creation of their greatest and most dangerous competitor, but quite a few were either unforeseeable or not something one could reasonably expect to have to prepare for.)My overall point, though, still stands IMO. Getting a crack at designing a fresh VTT so that it can be free of legacy code issues is only valuable if you have the expertise, resources, and time to build a clean foundation yourself. If not, you're just swapping one set of legacy code issues for another. WotC has not, thus far, demonstrated that it does have the expertise or resources for this sort of thing, and I am disinclined to believe that a company with so few staff that a single person being on jury duty can seriously delay important projects is able to offer the time either.</blockquote>

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