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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 5761543" data-attributes="member: 2518"><p>Unlikely to happen.</p><p>WotC won't invest enough money for AAA games (tens of millions, in some cases more than 100 million) and doesn't really have the experience to do it themselves.</p><p></p><p>There also aren't really any big RPG developers left who don't have their own setting or are already under contract. And the game studios/publishers themselves don't have much interest in D&D because the last D&D game tanked with the fanbase practically got halved with 4E. Maybe if WotC practically gives away the license for free if the publisher agrees to make at least one game with X budget. But they will hardly agree to that.</p><p></p><p>But maybe a miracle will happen and WotC can get CD Projekt or Obsidian to do a D&D game or can find enough old Black Isle/Bioware employees to start a new studio. But so far the only notable D&D game in the pipeline is that Neverwinter MMO. And it is Cryptic so it won't be AAA. Even a B-game would be a surprise from them. And I don't think that there will be any other D&D game any time soon.</p><p></p><p>(I am also a bit perplexed at the decision to make the Neverwinter game an MMO. Sounds like something a bean counter would decide after reading a news story about WoW. D&D has a very high reputation for single player games with added multiplayer, but non as MMOs. Also the MMO market is very unforgiving and imo oversated. A good single player 4E game with added toolbox and DDI connectivity would have served the D&D brand better)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Derren, post: 5761543, member: 2518"] Unlikely to happen. WotC won't invest enough money for AAA games (tens of millions, in some cases more than 100 million) and doesn't really have the experience to do it themselves. There also aren't really any big RPG developers left who don't have their own setting or are already under contract. And the game studios/publishers themselves don't have much interest in D&D because the last D&D game tanked with the fanbase practically got halved with 4E. Maybe if WotC practically gives away the license for free if the publisher agrees to make at least one game with X budget. But they will hardly agree to that. But maybe a miracle will happen and WotC can get CD Projekt or Obsidian to do a D&D game or can find enough old Black Isle/Bioware employees to start a new studio. But so far the only notable D&D game in the pipeline is that Neverwinter MMO. And it is Cryptic so it won't be AAA. Even a B-game would be a surprise from them. And I don't think that there will be any other D&D game any time soon. (I am also a bit perplexed at the decision to make the Neverwinter game an MMO. Sounds like something a bean counter would decide after reading a news story about WoW. D&D has a very high reputation for single player games with added multiplayer, but non as MMOs. Also the MMO market is very unforgiving and imo oversated. A good single player 4E game with added toolbox and DDI connectivity would have served the D&D brand better) [/QUOTE]
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