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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9156356" data-attributes="member: 18">I think the difference is that today a lot of companies are far less tolerant of stuff "limping along" than they were 5-15 years ago.You can see this across the entertainment media industry - videogames and TV are easy examples. TV shows, it used to be if they weren't doing great, they'd just sit there on one season, or maybe even get a second season to attempt redemption or get bought by another channel who might make more seasons. Whereas right now, a lot of shows are just getting vaulted entirely for the combination of tax right-off and lack of residuals (which is more important depends on who you ask). Videogames are getting cancelled outright - just look at Hyenas, a game that Sega and Creative Assembly spent $100m+ on, and which was essentially complete and ready for release, but will now never come out, because it's better to get the tax write-off and so on. WotC also did a sweeping cancellation of D&D-related videogame products earlier this year.That said, I do agree that it's quite possible WotC execs will be politically invested enough in the 3D VTT that even if it's completely failing to provide the desired ROI (which seems highly likely, frankly) that they may keep it going for a couple of years just trying new things to try and make it profitable.But yeah I don't think we'll know much about it except from investor meetings or if WotC suddenly announces it's going end-of-service or something.</blockquote>

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