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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painted_klown" data-source="post: 7661171" data-attributes="member: 6785485">I have to laugh when people keep bringing up the deal with Trapdoor. Let's take a look at the facts. D&D was working with Trapdoor, so that Trapdoor could release officially licensed D&D digital tools. Nobody (outside of those two companies) knows exactly why that deal fell through, but logic would suggest that Trapdoor were unable to develop a product to the standard that WoTC required, within the timeframe and bugdet alloted. If they could have, it would have happened already. After that, Trapdoor attempted to keep their software alive by switching to Pathfinder and creating a kickstarter that failed miserably. One of the biggest complaints I saw with the kickstarter was that the abilities of the software were never clearly defined. What could it do? What were its limitations? Etc, etc... Doesn't that tell you something about the quality of the software they were developing? Doesn't that maybe give us a clue as to why WoTC broke ties with them? It certainly does to me. To try to say that WoTC have failed in this area is a stretch, at best. It's more a case of they attempted to work with a company to have these things available, and that company couldn't provide what they needed. What does that mean to us? That means WoTC had to start over again. Either working to develop digital tools in house, or searching to find a softaware company that could come through with what they needed, clear and concise descriptions of what their software does, and then they need to hammer out all of the financial and legal details. I don't seriously believe this could happen in such a short span of time. It wasn't that long ago that Trapdoor failed. Additionally, we have no idea of what is going on "behind the scenes" (nor should we). There could be something in the works as I type this, there may not...either way, to say that Wizards failed on the digital tools front is a bit out of line IMO. They didn't fail, Trapdoor did. Wizards has to clean up the mess and move forward. IMO, YMMV, etc.</blockquote>

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