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Hard to be positive about RW. Exmortis aka "Scott" RW - Needs Rez spell HL - Game Master/Designer RPG Tools - Campaign Cartographer 3+, D20 Pro Ultimate Real Life - IT Security Hobby - Anything on water or ATV |
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For the record LW must be supported by HLC, HLO doesn't pay any bills until they start charging for it although it might drive some sales to HLC in the meantime by people thinking that they'll get a discount for the new product as an "upgrade". Same for the free cloud for the realms created, that hardware doesn't run for free so one positive is you get free storage for several Gigs of data right now. Take what you can get. |
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True, but storage is pretty cheap. If/when they do get the Content Market up and running, though, they'll start the timers again. |
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I have no idea what service they use for their cloud storage but storage is unbelievably cheap. Microsoft will literally give you a Azure account for a year for free, below certain usage thresholds.
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Honestly, historically, non-IP sci-fi games have been niche and small market. Even the established universe products seem to have a revolving door on publishers, versions and lifetimes - how many Star Wars version have come out so far? Which Traveller version is your favorite? According to Roll20's Q4 Orr Report for 2017, around 1% of games and gamers are playing Starfinder although the game did only release in August 2017 and they say that it's increasing in popularity. Still if only 1% of one of the most popular VTTs is playing a game, I can't imagine it's a huge number for the rest of the world either. Then again, HLC has the market cornered for Pathfinder 1 and HLO will likely lead the market for PF2 when PF2 stops playtesting. If they could only secure a full 5e license they'd smack down dndbeyond because that product needs some severe loving before it compares to LW's polish. Last edited by dungeonguru; June 7th, 2018 at 11:07 AM. |
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the only thing dndbeyond has going for it is that exclusive license.
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But the license is not exclusive. Fantasy Grounds and Roll20 both have licenses. Both have a way to reference rules. And Roll20 has just rolled out the first look at a character generator. DDB aren't the only game in town. But for rules reference and character generation, I'd say they are the best of the licensed three. AD |
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Actually dndbeyond does have an exclusive license. That's why they call themselves the official digital toolset of D&D. Everyone else uses the SRD.
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Look here: https://marketplace.roll20.net/brows...s-of-the-coast And here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store...ecore=1&sort=1 Both Roll20 and FG have a license, and they are selling licensed material. AD |
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