Will the WOTC Gametable return or is it dead forever?

Silverblade The Ench · Feb 23, 2009

damn PO'd if it's abandoned completely, I was really looking forward to playing, using it :/

Xyxox · Feb 23, 2009

I think they bit off WAY more than they could chew.

jgerman · Feb 23, 2009

Xyxox said:
I think they bit off WAY more than they could chew.

It definitely looks that way. Honestly, I don't think they're capable of delivering, but we'll see. It's going to be a long time and a lot of things can change.

tenkar · Feb 23, 2009

It was never here, so it can't return.

Is it ever going to arrive? I hope so, but I think they would be better off buying or licensing, FG2 / Battlegrounds / Some Other Alternative, then continuing to beat a horse that was barely alive before the latest purge of WotC employees.

jeffwik · Feb 23, 2009

When and if they get it going, fully integrated with the Compendium and the Character Builder -- that will or would be awesome. But the Character Builder being done was enough to entice me into getting a DDI subscription; even if the tabletop is never done I won't feel cheated provided the other two tools continue to get updated.

Lord Xtheth · Feb 23, 2009

The table top was definately somthing I was looking forward to as well. Even if it was a dumbed down 2.5D version instead of 3D... or just a grid and tokens like some of the ones I've seen. Just one that works would be welcome in my little world.

Mercutio01 · Feb 23, 2009

Ditto - I would be a subscriber now if the Game Table was up and functional.

Burrito Al Pastor · Feb 23, 2009

I'm of two minds about the Game Table. On the one hand, I've been trying to find a good, easy, robust system for playing games online for a while now, without much luck; on the other hand, I can't in good conscience ask my players to pay $6 a month to play in my game, even knowing that $6 is not exactly a lot of money.

evilgenius8000 · Feb 23, 2009

There really hasn't been much news about the gametable one way or another, so it's not possible to say whether it's gonna be vaporware or not. However, given the situation with the character creator & visualizer, I'm convinced WotC will not be able to pull it off to the extent that they claimed they were going to. So, if it ends up not being vaporware (most likely 2+ years from now) it probably won't be as good as online RPG software that is already available.

Dragonblade · Feb 23, 2009

I expect we'll see it sooner rather than later. Previous reports from WotC developers had the game table actually being used regularly by some employees. It seemed pretty far along. I suspect we'll have some news of it by the end of the year at least.

However, I expect to see the Dungeon Builder first. Especially since you need the Dungeon Builder to be able to get full use out of the game table anyway.

I think WotC has reprioritized and realized that instead of making a little progress on multiple apps, they have decided to focus on one app at a time and get it done sooner. Character Builder is done except for updates and maintenance and its fantastic. I expect they will turn to the character visualizer or the dungeon builder next. In fact, I predict one of those is fully released by June and the other by December. I predict the game table will be out by June 2010 at the latest.