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Interplay in trouble? What will happen to NWN?

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Interplay in trouble? What will happen to NWN?

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Oh dear oh dear.

If what this article [url="http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010824/n24221124_2.html"]http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010824/n24221124_2.html[/url] says is true, how is Bioware going to find another publisher with AD & D license for NWN?
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Well lets see what TITUS/Interplay says before we get to nerveous.
But I think that this is not the best time for Interplay to be in trouble, couldn't they have waited a couple of years :)
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Sadly, it's been going like this for a while. (I personaly blame companies like Blizzard for ruinging the RPG genre, but thats a different matter.)
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(I personaly blame companies like Blizzard for ruinging the RPG genre, but thats a different matter.)

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I second that Aegis. After Planescape Torment and the Baldur's Gate series, NWN is the next gift from the Gods to a languishing RPG world. It will be a crying shame if it doesn't materialise.
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Um, BGfan, whats up with your post?
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Oops sorry. What I mean to say is, I agree that Blizzard is turning the RPG genre upside down with Diablo, and that NWN is the next best thing to be coming out after Planescape and BG series.
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Blizzard makes some kick a$$ good games and have done so for as long as I can remember. of course other should have the chance to get in theres as well and I am pretty sure that they will.
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All I can say is that I hope that NWN does not end up on the vaporware pages. I really want this game to get developed and produced. We've all been waiting too long for it!!!
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I really hope Xandax and Mike are right and I'm wrong.

I don't mean to raise a false alarm on this board. I work in a bank; and from the little I do know, a high leverage without the necessary returns as in Interplay's case is usually a recipe for disaster.

Let's wish that it doesn't happen; at least not until NWN is released :D
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Post by Xyx »

NWN has already been a huge investment. The game would very nearly be shippable if the designers weren't bent on improving the quality any way they can. I don't see this project ending up in a corporate dustbin. Maybe fund cuts will significantly reduce the quality of the eventual release, but I can't imagine Bioware not putting this product up for sale after putting so much effort into it.
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