Status of D&D Game Table?

[UngainlyTitan]

Well, they did outsource the VTT as well and that didn't work either.

Yeah but they did not buy an existing working VTT and rebadge it as the official VTT

 

[bytor4232]

Well, a VTT has been what I've been waiting for before I buy into 4E. A well designed tool that will facilitate finding other players would be a killer app for me. I'm almost 40, I don't have time to search FLGS's for new players.

 

[Dire Bare]

Didn't they try this whole outsourcing thing in 3E with eTools? Didn't really work either.

Heh, at the risk of stating the obvious, outsourcing works when you outsource to a quality company. It doesn't work when you outsource to a company that doesn't have its act together. I'm pretty sure WotC has outsourced ALL of their software offerings, past and present. Sometimes that worked out pretty well, sometimes it was a disaster.

 

[Asmor]

Heh, at the risk of stating the obvious, outsourcing works when you outsource to a quality company. It doesn't work when you outsource to a company that doesn't have its act together. I'm pretty sure WotC has outsourced ALL of their software offerings, past and present. Sometimes that worked out pretty well, sometimes it was a disaster.

Could be wrong, but I was under the impression that both the current version* of Magic Online and the various D&D Insider tools were all done in-house.

*IIRC the original version was made by a company called Leaping Lizard, but WotC brought development back in-house at some point and the current 3.0 version was designed from the ground up in-house

 

[Than]

Is the Game Table still in the pipeline?

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Is the Game Table still in the pipeline?

Well now! your guess is as good as mine. Though mine is that it is a low priority behind the additional modules of the adventure tools suite.
Though what else might be in the adventure tools suite is anybodies guess also.
While the CB has been actively tweaked recently, wether anyone is working on new stuff is also probably unknown. WoTC is playing their cards really close on this stuff after the fiasco that was Gleemax et al.

 

[Argyle King]

Is the Game Table still in the pipeline?

For the time being, there's probably a better chance that Big Foot will hold a press conference and declair that he exists.

I imagine we will see Game Table some day, but I assume (yeah... I know...) it won't be for quite a while, and I'll even go out on a limb and say that I believe we'll be closer to a new edition before we see Game Table again.

 

[Shazman]

Didn't they try this whole outsourcing thing in 3E with eTools? Didn't really work either.
I don't think WotC wants to touch the VTT topic until they are really ready. At least they won't announce it beforehand. They got away pretty well with the "VTT will be ready at 4e launch" failure. Why wake sleeping dogs (unless you have a big fat T-Bone to distract them)? Its not like a lot of sales depend on that feature.

Exactly how didn't it work? E-tools was a great program that I used a lot. It worked better than WotC's character creator program they put out with the 3.0 PHB. If WotC hadn't decided to yank all of their licenses, we might have a 4E version of E-tools and an outsourced VTT.

 

[Zaran]

Exactly how didn't it work? E-tools was a great program that I used a lot. It worked better than WotC's character creator program they put out with the 3.0 PHB. If WotC hadn't decided to yank all of their licenses, we might have a 4E version of E-tools and an outsourced VTT.

I seriously do not think that they are putting any effort into getting the game table to us. Hiring someone to do the work for them once they could not get it working would be a logical plan. They probably think that the investment isn't worth it. If they can't figure out a way to make a ton of money off the game table they will not make the effort.

 

[Zaran]

By the way, this thread was made almost 18 months ago. That in itself should tell you that we shouldn't hold our breath.