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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9602293" data-attributes="member: 725">I don't necessarily agree, it dilutes the market. And let's be honest here, many VTT projects have just absolutely failed to deliver made promises. That dilutes trust even more, an insane amount of VTTs makes it impossible to choose and impossible for publishers to support them all unless someone comes up with a standardize adventure format for VTTs, which hasn't happened yet. There is already a TON of disdain against playing online people having bad experiences with half arsed VTTs and exploitative business models is not going to change that in a positive way...WotC has from my perspective a very bad track record with software, especially long support for it. On the other hand I like Magic: Arena, well implemented version of MtG (after many, many failed attempts). Others have stated that the 4e tools were great, don't know, I own the books but never played 4e. I don't like DDB either, nor WotC's business model, nor their direction. But people have figured out how to connect DDB to other VTTs and WotC has licensed D&D to other VTT platforms, so I don't really care about DDB/Sigil as a real alternative to the FVTT I use. I still want to try it and see how they implemented it, as I'm running Mac primarily these days, I'll see if I can get it running via Crossover (compatibility layer similar to Proton for Linux). But I have installed Talespire (that has a Mac client) and see how it looks these days and see how it runs on a Mac Mini...It is not without reason that many people dislike Hasbro/WotC as a company. I still like D&D enough to buy the official D&D FVTT modules for it, but I could care less about the company that makes it. I don't see it like a great evil, like some. I just see it as something untrustworthy in many respects, especially regarding software products. The product (direction) and business model never was going to get me interested in the first place, even if I didn't already have extreme reservations about what kind of product/service/business model WotC would produce with Sigil. I made my choice with FVTT and even if it gets abandoned tomorrow (it won't!), I could still run the FVTT server without security issues. I could still access my content, modules, etc. (as it's already downloaded).If you're interested in the VTT market, technology, D&D, etc. You can download Sigil, install it, play with it. I would not advise you invest money in it with the idea/promise that it will get better. Wait until the product is done and then evaluate if you want to pay for it.</blockquote>

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