Sure there are some people that talk up PCGen but there is always more people talking about a poor experience with PCGen, the lack of content, the delay of new content, the quality of the content being in question. This can always been seen in the Pathfinder groups when discussion occurs between HLC and PCGen. Reliability - Will new books come out in an acceptable time-frame? Can the data be trusted when it does? How long does it take for support to fix something?.Laziness - Where the tool cannot provide the whole solution, they usually provide a way for the players to fill the gaps, people are lazy though and will in a lot of cases open their wallets to avoid the effort (The lawyers in the 5e circles ensure this is an effective factor).
But the chatter I've seen indicates there are a few things that will make them open their wallets.
VTT is having a huge surge in popularity but there is still a significantly larger portion of players playing face to face and in those situations PC is not king.Īnd I agree that players will always seek out the cheapest options. PC is not even in competition with Mobile IMO when it comes to tabletop role players.
If we're considering the mobile market, I don't think that a crowd where an expensive app is $5 is gonna start licking their chops to get involved.I'm absolutely considering the mobile market.