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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8856268" data-attributes="member: 20741">You aren't wrong about that motivation, but this speaks to my cautionary note: there is no reason to believe, NONE, that any WotC 3d VTT would offer superior tech to competitors. And those competitors are well motivated to NOT lock down their software in a similar manner.As I have mentioned, there is a VAST library of STL 3d minis as well as many models which exist from other games. You can do the same with 3d minis whipped up and textured in Heroforge. Hell, for that matter, you can turn a model from WoW into a 3d animated mini. It's trivially easy to do. The only way you get away with closing a new VTT system without a mass exodus is if your tech advantage is huge. If it isn't? You will bleed customers, it's just a question of how many you lose. If you have any doubts about that -- the loss of Roll20 of nearly its entire base of PF2 GMs and players -- and most of their PF1 GMs and players -- was due to Foundry VTT offering things for free, with much better quality, than Roll20 made you pay for. They lost almost their entire user base of PF and SF GMs as a result in a ~year, from 2020 to 2021. And that's during the pandemic, too.Gamers will pay for quality, but not many will pay when the same quality is available for free. And if a competing product is less expensive AND better? Good luck with all of that. You are screwed.</blockquote>