D&D 5E Prediction: Hasbro Will Acquire Foundry Virtual Tabletop for $24M

[IvyDragons]

Maybe DndBeyond's VTT is practically ready to roll out

Come on, thats science fiction. The DDB developers took 5 years to build a sub par encounter builder that is still in Beta.

 

[IvyDragons]

20M users!

Nah, 20m logins maybe.

 

[Deset Gled]

Come on, thats science fiction. The DDB developers took 5 years to build a sub par encounter builder that is still in Beta.

... So, no word on why you decided to speculate on Hasbro buying Roll20, how you came up with a value, or why you chose to phrase it as news?

 

[beancounter]

I'll stick with AboveVTT anyway...

 

[Malmuria]

I maintain we need to be able to bet on these dnd prediction threads.

Here are my proposed odds on Hasbro's VTT strategy:

not make a VTT -350
Roll 20 -100
Foundry +75
Fantasy Grounds 2:1
Tale Spire 5:1
make their own VTT 9:1




[note: I am being sarcastic and do not support gambling on corporate strategy, unless you are into the stock market]

 

[ersatzphil]

I'll stick with AboveVTT anyway...

If AboveVTT wasn't OSS, I'd call it a possible acquisition - has most of the features people want, only works with D&DBeyond, and is browser based.

 

[Stormonu]

Google was closer than @Morrus, unless Roll20 has gained 10 million users in the last month and a half. At least according to this "ENWorld" site (anybody know if it's reliable? ): Roll20 Now Has 10 Million Users

First he forgets a word in the NuTSR thread, now he forgets one of his own articles.
Ya slipping Morrus, do we need to order a health check?

 

[Morrus]

Google was closer than @Morrus, unless Roll20 has gained 10 million users in the last month and a half. At least according to this "ENWorld" site (anybody know if it's reliable? ): Roll20 Now Has 10 Million Users

10M it is! I totally misremembered that!

 

[CleverNickName]

Sheesh, 'tall poppies' much?

I get the impulse to hate things that are popular (I live in Portland OR, the hipster capital of the West Coast), but this is just...absurd.

 

[Hussar]

For myself and purely selfish, I hope they go all in on a 100% DnD only vtt. I don’t play other rpgs so being open for other games isn’t a concern for me.

Hopefully a platform custom built for DnD will support play a hell of a lot better than a generic one.