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[Lugaid of the Red Stripes]

www.pcworld.com/article/2025822/atari-files-for-bankruptcy-but-it-s-not-game-over.html

Anybody have any idea how this could affect NWN2?  The article above mentioned that the U.S. bankruptcy is meant to shield Atari from the debts of her French parent company, Atari S.A. IIRC, the old lawsuit was all about European distribution, so maybe splitting off the US part of the business could loosen things up. 

They've already been selling the new NWN/NWN2 and Baldur's Gate bundles, but I wonder if this frees up the property for more development, like a final patch.  The market's pretty bare nowadays for cRPGs with extensive toolsets, and NWN2 really just needs a few tweaks (multicore support, graphical optimization) to be competitive.  Throw in Pain's launcher and NWNx as an offical update, and people might actually buy the thing.

Any expert speculation out there?

[kamal_]

My understanding is it's meaningless, as Wotc/Hasbro own the rights to NWN2 now, not Atari.

Modifié par kamal_, 23 janvier 2013 - 06:09 .

[-Semper-]

as kamal said. atari lost the rights to sell nwn2 months ago after there was no deal with hasbro. that also means that there won't be any chance for a future patch - not that there was ever a chance after atari dropped the support years ago. i also highly doubt that obsidian would work for free, besides the fact that there are no publishing rights.

Modifié par -Semper-, 23 janvier 2013 - 07:03 .

[Shallina]

If you interested in modding beware !

NWN2 is one of the best option, beceause the community was able to provide tools to replace the official broken one.

For DAO it's going to be harder, the toolset works on 2005 SQL database, and M$ is completly dropping support for it, wich mean it's really difficult to have it running on Windows 8.

So far no trouble for skyrim.

Redkit of TW2 is yet to be seen.

[Luminus]

I say good riddance. They have been responsible for a ton of crap that happened to great games like Temple of Elemental Evil and Neverwinter Nights 2.

Let's hope that we will somehow and miraculously get a new patch or even better, some of the stuff going open source, even though the latter is mostly a dream.

Modifié par Luminus, 23 janvier 2013 - 09:44 .

[painofdungeoneternal]

I actually was kind of happy to hear this.

I would love it if EA were to purchase Atari actually, the US unit at least, perhaps in a hostile manner. That would clear up any ownership issues, assuming Hasbro agreed to it. I think that Infrogrames ( the company that purchased Atari ) is specifically a competitor with Hasbro, and is why there was such a dispute.

They own bioware, and I've seen them do a lot of games licensed by Hasbro ( still like my iphone battleship for example ), so they must have a good working relationship.

And EA, unlike Atari, actually act as a real publisher, how they released Dragon Age was amazing, if NWN2 got half that support it would have been game of the year upon release, and I think even if the deal was just the same percentage, Hasbro would be much happier just because of EA being more effective.

I think Atari's problem is that everything they did was aimed at their own survival as they barely tread water, and they could not really invest properly in what they published to maximize long term returns. Even their purchase of that studio who was making NWO was a great idea, but they spun it off as soon as they could, even the 2 D&D collections just kept the company alive for a short while longer, and it's difficult to even figure out where to buy the game.

[Challseus]

I'm still a little bitter they delayed "Mysteries of Westgate" for like 2 years, so I won't say I'm happy, I'll just say I'm irreverent.

[Helmic Knight]

That is waht happens to a company when executives don´t like their own products, pisses their customers off and think buyers are brainless teenagers with no criteria

[Hazelthorne]

Seriously the time is ripe for EA to buy back Neverwinter from Atari and for Bioware to produce. Currently NWN2 has lost all patch support (you have to buy the newest version to not have to manually patch through the nwn2vault site.) As well Gamespy was bought and NWN2 multi-player support was lost. Instead the community rallied on nwn2vault and Skywing's client extender program restored MP functions to NWN2. WE really need NWN3 and we need a new toolset. We need something that will convert our live PW servers into the new format. We are ready for riding, flying, swiming, and jumping worlds we can build in! Bioware this is the time to make your move. The NWN2 modding community is waiting with money in hand. Heck, we will even develop the new game for you. We've already rebuilt NWN2, check the nwn2vault site and all our haks and work.

[nicethugbert]

Ding dong the witch is dead. I hope EA is next. I wouldn't look to EA for salvation. Their CEO dreams of charging to reload a weapon. He attests to having paid ~$5000USD playing EA games. He did so as an experiment on microtransactions, in order to find out when the player is less "price sensitive" and he does not consider it gouging to hit you up for money in your moment of zeal to play the game. All their games are unlock tread mills. Expect nothing else from them. I hate what they did to ME3 MP with that damn troll store and manifest.

The DA toolset is a horror and EA has done nothing to improve it. Keep that in mind when you think of EA.

EA can go fu ck a pool of piranhas.

A pox on all their sh it houses.

Modifié par nicethugbert, 28 janvier 2013 - 01:24 .