What I don't understand is why WotC still deals with this exclusive license garbage. It's clear that there's a demand for D&D games. It's also clear that Atari isn't satisfying that demand (either in number of titles produced and in quality of titles). Computer games could bring people into the D&D fold just like the SSI games did way back when.
I'm not saying Wizards should get into the computer game business, but I do think that they would have a lot more luck encouraging D&D game development than discouraging it with exclusive license schemes.
After ToEE the "conventional wisdom" in the industry, so I'm told, became that turn-based games won't sell. Never mind that that particular one was a bug-ridden, poorly paced POS. It took a largish modding community with no support from the company years to make a decent game out of it - proof that, on rare occasions, you can polish a turd. But you shouldn't have to. The real lesson should have been that crappy games won't sell.
Sigh, I badly wanted to play ToEE, bought it, downloaded patches, never made it more than an hour in because there is apparently a ring or some such that drops that is absolutely necessary to advance the story that isn't present in my copy for whatever reason.
Sorry, got distracted.
Anyways, I'm not a huge fan of 4e, but I would very much like to see it turned into a video game. I think that it could really shine.
The Co8 mods give that aspect of the game a welcome makeover, in any event.