:/

Although Sigil was a nice idea, regular vtts are much more implemented in the community I guess. But, Demo x Dungeons and Dragons: Battlemarked is going to be awsome and could have potential for more content. Anyway good work, none the less. I look forward to D&Ds future.

So....no more mal system tied directly into d&d beyond? 

That was the main reason I kept my master tier.

First you take away the ability to purchase individual items...now this....why am I spending money on this service again????

You had what was arguably a VTT with the MOST potential, and you ruined it and the good will of the community (once again).

Thanks for nothing WOTC.

Weak.

As someone who works with digital tools to bring D&D to life every week, I know how much creativity and passion went into Sigil. It’s disappointing to see the project end, but I deeply respect the transparency in this message and the acknowledgment of both the players and the developers. I hope the lessons learned here carry forward into the next generation of D&D’s digital experiences.

yea

This is the right decision. D&D is not a Tabletop video game. It felt like Sigil was trying to be just that. 

Stay focused on Maps. Add animated .gif stickers and other cool features. Get into the stl file and custom 3d printer business. 

Does this include the Maps VTT as well, since that is separate from Sigil?

I think the maps VTT will still be working

Since they're separate things, I can't imagine they would ruin what little good will they have left by tanking Maps VTT. But I guess you never know.

Typical WotC / Hasbro. Create something with absolute potential, then it falls under the weight of its own weak, corporate knees. Shame. 

At least work with a third-party to have an officially-licenced 3D VTT, even if you can't build it in-house any more. 

Here's the thing, you guys leapt into that development with the purpose of monetizing it. That was your first mistake. You already run a subscription based service. There was absolutely no reason to try and squeeze more money out of your customer base. Your second mistake was not looking at the past and realizing that WotC already tried to do a VTT way back in 4th edition and that one never came to fruition either. Your third was to complete development and then basically abandon it immediately. If it already works, why not simply maintain it at this point? Can you explain the drain on resources that it takes up? 

Next, there are plenty of VTTs out there. I just saw that WotC has expanded its offerings with FoundryVTT. This and your continued partnership with Roll20 should be the direction you go in. The problem with his dynamic though is that it doubles the cost for your players. We have to buy the content in two places, here, and in the VTT. If you want to do right by your player base, please consider adding a tier for purchases that includes a VTT link. So basically, I pay a little bit more for a module, but now I get access to it in Beyond and in Foundry. 

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This is the right decision. D&D is not a Tabletop video game. It felt like Sigil was trying to be just that.

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So....no more mal system tied directly into d&d beyond? 

 

 

That was the main reason I kept my master tier.

 

First you take away the ability to purchase individual items...now this....why am I spending money on this service again????

 To be fair, first Sigil was wholly unneeded as they already had a Map system that could have more easily (and cheaply) been turned into an official Roll20 (which they are now doing anyway). Add in that Sigil was a resource hog and couldn't even be run on MOST PCs (and if you don't have a PC and used mobile or tablet you were boned).

Dropping Sigil and focusing on the Map VTT is what they should have done from the jump, but they saw a way to try for the most greedy approach and it blew up in their stupid faces.

So WotC killed the one good thing you had going... That's sad, you guys were doing an amazing aesthetical work with Sigil even in beta

really sad that this is being canned. I really wanted to play it more but there were too many pieces of the DDB were missing, (Species etc) that I think if implemented earlier, would have made this an easy win. Any plans on releasing the source code? Would love to see what independent creators might expand on with this. (probably wont happen but one can dream) Appreciate trying to do right by the community. I definitely wont say no to a six month credit ^_^

so i tried sigil a number of times but never could get my group to be able join,do i get this credit still?

Next time hire someone to build your VTT that actually plays the game (at the exec level, I know a lot of passion went in at the dev level). The initial idea of this being micro-transaction grab bag doomed it from the start. All of its primary design decisions were tainted by that. 

Not that anyone at Hasbro or WTC really reads these, but you have a market here if you want one. Charge me per month, give me access to all content like Netflix instead of having to buy each book, and then slowly add other features. In this model you can charge me 2x what I am currently paying and I will go all in a year at a time for a discount. People do want this, they just don't want the BS way it was planned at the start. 

I definitely enjoyed Sigil and am saddened by the official end. I guess it is back to Game Master Engine and Talespire for me.