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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8856237" data-attributes="member: 22779">I'm still kinda baffled how this is any different than what we have right now.Right now, depending on what VTT you use, you have a massive shopping list of micro-transactions that you can make as a DM or a player.  There is no end to the number of people who would just love to sell you something.  Packs of character tokens?  Yup.  Map packs?  Yup.  Heck, Fantasy Grounds RIGHT NOW is selling special dice for use in games for their VTT.  You can now color code (and design code) your dice for different damage types.Never minding the absolute army of patreons, kickstarters and various others who have zero problem producing content for whatever game you happen to be playing.Nothing that has been mentioned in this thread is not available in the VTT market right now and nothing that hasn't been available for years.The difference I'm seeing is that people who haven't really used VTT's particularly are just now, suddenly becoming aware that there are thousands of gamers out there that do play on VTT, and have quite happily done so for many years, who have been already seen pretty much everything you could possibly think of.  Animated tokens?  Yup, got those.  Animated maps?  Yup - there's a number of VTT's that handle that.The only thing that WotC's VTT will have over other VTT's is integration with D&D Beyond, which, to be fair, is a MASSIVE draw.But all this doom and gloom stuff, while hilariously naive, is just not going to happen.  If was going to happen, Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds would have already done it.  What, you think those guys aren't in it for the bucks?  Really?  Come on here.  But tanking your VTT by selling some sort of "cloak that waves a certain way if some sort of monster is near" is ludicrous.  The amount of backlash for something like that would be insane.You'd almost think that WotC hasn't spent the last 20 years creating games.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" /></blockquote>

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