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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9616968" data-attributes="member: 725">Yes, many phones are way more powerful then a 15 year old console at this point. But you need to realize that the Xbox 360 ran at ~720p, sometimes much lower, sometimes a little higher. These days that's not workable for a VTT that's often played on 1080p at a minimum. Something like a Steam Deck gets away with running at 800p (or less), but that's because it's a handheld on a 7" screen. Not something you would run a VTT on...And yes, they could have created something on par with Neverwinter Nights 2, but that would also have bored into the ground by the other part of the VTT audience as having 20 year old 3d graphics, and for a company like WotC/Hasbro, rightly so. The issue isn't using UE5, it's that they didn't prioritize low end optimization and scalability. Nor multiplatform deployment. If people could play it on their 5 year old iPad (and Android equivalent) without issue, adoption would be far higher, same goes for MacOS.From my perspective they rushed the release and with good reason, they were up on the chopping block, and some might have seen that on the horizon.When this started Larian was working on BG3, with no idea it would be such a commercial success. After Larian finished BG3 they wanted to move on from WotC/Hasbro IP and do their own thing. So not really an option...They still have those three pillars, just not in house. They have licensing deals in place with Roll20, Foundry, Fantasy Grounds, and possibly others (?). So VTT is not one massive WotC pillar, but multiple smaller pillars. It wouldn't surprise me at all if when Talespire comes out of Early Access, they might also try and get a D&D license for official content.You need to understand how nice licensing is, it's essentially free money. No investment of time and resources needed and when a project fails, that cost of failure is borne by someone else. The only thing that's needed is some form of licensing team as the only overhead. And while no single licensed project might be as profitable as BG3, all those smaller projects do add up.</blockquote>

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