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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9209737" data-attributes="member: 6801845">It's new technology, a new business practice.&nbsp; There may also be technical issues we don't know about.&nbsp; It's easy to say &quot;Just add a button to import&quot; or &quot;Just add an API&quot;.&nbsp; Either one of those require significant investment and ongoing support costs.&nbsp; Would what you want be profitable for them?&nbsp; Would opening the floodgates hurt their business? Who knows.&nbsp; Of course they're going slow.&nbsp; We don't really know what the end game is, this is a new process still in it's infancy.But let's take a step back to look at the definition of a walled garden: A network or service that either restricts or makes it difficult for users to obtain applications or content from external sources. Based on that, I don't think DDB qualifies.&nbsp; WOTC is not stopping, will never be able to stop because they put much of their IP into CC, people from creating D&amp;D compatible products.&nbsp; They're still supporting DmsGuild, there's no indication they are changing agreements with companies like Roll20.&nbsp; They simply aren't actively boosting the sales from more than a handful of companies at the moment.That may mean they don't give every 3PP, or everyone that wants to become a 3PP, a boost in visibility.&nbsp; Because that's what we're really saying here, right? For those people that use DDB the people that get their product published on DDB will get a boost in sales, potentially both for the products on DDB and those that are never published there. It's not on WOTC to ensure that 3PPs are successful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9209737, member: 6801845"] It's new technology, a new business practice. There may also be technical issues we don't know about. It's easy to say "Just add a button to import" or "Just add an API". Either one of those require significant investment and ongoing support costs. Would what you want be profitable for them? Would opening the floodgates hurt their business? Who knows. Of course they're going slow. We don't really know what the end game is, this is a new process still in it's infancy. But let's take a step back to look at the definition of a walled garden: [I]A network or service that either restricts or makes it difficult for users to obtain applications or content from external sources. [/I]Based on that, I don't think DDB qualifies. WOTC is not stopping, will never be able to stop because they put much of their IP into CC, people from creating D&D compatible products. They're still supporting DmsGuild, there's no indication they are changing agreements with companies like Roll20. They simply aren't actively boosting the sales from more than a handful of companies at the moment. That may mean they don't give every 3PP, or everyone that wants to become a 3PP, a boost in visibility. Because that's what we're really saying here, right? For those people that use DDB the people that get their product published on DDB will get a boost in sales, potentially both for the products on DDB and those that are never published there. It's not on WOTC to ensure that 3PPs are successful. [/QUOTE]

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