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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7581572" data-attributes="member: 6689464">I notice a lot of good arguments in favor of the idea that the future is digital. But all of them ignore a simple fact: All of these digital tools are ancillary second party products, and WotC isn't a digital developer -for the most part, MTG arena notwithstanding-. Their main business is in cardboard, with only a relatively small crew for MTGArena. The development and maintenance costs of replacing all of those tools with in-house ones would be huge, way higher than what they spend in D&D right now. And that is without taking into account all of the loss in goodwill (You spent a thousand dollars in DNDBeyond Content? though luck, we are rolling a new in-house set of tools and you have to buy it all over again!). That is what it is. There are only a few ways that D&D in print dies, 1) WotC develops in-house everything -with the huge monetary cost and bad PR- 2) WotC buys Fandom, smiteworks and Roll 20 (for how much? that doesn't make any sense) 3) WotC goes all digital while entirely reliant on second party companies to keep the brand alive, essentially relinquishing all control over the development of D&D and the brand. (And that is corporate suicide) . So it ain't happening. It is more likely that D&D gets into the Hasbro vault than it going all digital.(And this requires all-digital, there is no way WotC is promoting something outsourced/licensed over what it produces in-house)</blockquote>

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