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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9590457" data-attributes="member: 18">Meh.It's a D&amp;D issue, not an RPGs-in-general issue. Don't give WotC money if they operate like that imho. The thing is I don't think WotC and even more so Hasbro really understand their business very well. They're spending high tens of millions on 3D VTT and yeah coming up with these elaborate monetization strategies, but will any of it actually pay off? It seems to me like they're going to be laughing all the way to the bank and then the teller is going to say &quot;Sorry sirs, your account is $50 million overdrawn&quot;, so that's going to change the mood a little bit. At this point I'd be unsurprised if Sigil actually got cancelled before a 1.0 launch, just like the previous 3D VTT. Maybe it'll turn out to have some awesome killer features and I'll be completely wrong but they sure as hell haven't even hinted at such features, let alone shown them to anyone. It's still incredibly clunky and limited and questionable as why you'd use it over any other VTT, let alone use it in preference to a table or the like.Meanwhile RPGs that aren't D&amp;D are flourishing in a way they haven't since the 1990s, actually probably doing a lot better than they did in the 1990s. It's not like that weird post-d20 crash era where barely anything was happening.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9590457, member: 18"] Meh. It's a D&D issue, not an RPGs-in-general issue. Don't give WotC money if they operate like that imho. The thing is I don't think WotC and even more so Hasbro really understand their business very well. They're spending high tens of millions on 3D VTT and yeah coming up with these elaborate monetization strategies, but will any of it actually pay off? It seems to me like they're going to be laughing all the way to the bank and then the teller is going to say "Sorry sirs, your account is $50 million overdrawn", so that's going to change the mood a little bit. At this point I'd be unsurprised if Sigil actually got cancelled before a 1.0 launch, just like the previous 3D VTT. Maybe it'll turn out to have some awesome killer features and I'll be completely wrong but they sure as hell haven't even hinted at such features, let alone shown them to anyone. It's still incredibly clunky and limited and questionable as why you'd use it over any other VTT, let alone use it in preference to a table or the like. Meanwhile RPGs that aren't D&D are flourishing in a way they haven't since the 1990s, actually probably doing a lot better than they did in the 1990s. It's not like that weird post-d20 crash era where barely anything was happening. [/QUOTE]

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