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<blockquote data-quote="bowbe" data-source="post: 4136985" data-attributes="member: 6328">Correct, and agreed. Not wanting to link link link but look it up for yourself. Hasbro has the video game rights, those are licensed to Atari/Infogames through 2017 for a mere pittance of 19 million dollars. If you think thats wrong/foolish, again look at the dollars raked in by COD4 and the money involved in the GTA franchise. EA offered 2 BILLION for Take Two Interactive/Rockstar Games. I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure that in video game dollars a REAL and QUALITY Dungeons&amp;Dragons title utilizing the advances in videogame graphics that next gen consoles and high end computer systems offer is worth a lot more than 19 million dollars. I mean lets be real here. As cool as so many people feel World of Warcraft is... it still isn't D&amp;D, even if D&amp;D is starting to take some leads from design and dev of WoW. (I know, I know OMG OMG Don't SAY THAT HERE hahaha!... ok kids whatever lol. Take a breath. WoW is afterall more D&amp;D than D&amp;D is WoW despite any rules variants for the table top games. Hell... at one point Blizzard was partnered with WOTC for some table top product. Diablo anyone?) Even more wrong to me in all this is that the guys working their juevos off on 4e rules set wouldn't see a scrap of that mind boggling amount of money or likely even be credited for their work. I'm pretty sure nobody from WOTC in the 3ed/d20 days even has their name credited in the booklet for KOTOR or KOTOR 2. I looked and couldn't find mention of them anywhere. Maybe I missed it. Case</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bowbe, post: 4136985, member: 6328"] Correct, and agreed. Not wanting to link link link but look it up for yourself. Hasbro has the video game rights, those are licensed to Atari/Infogames through 2017 for a mere pittance of 19 million dollars. If you think thats wrong/foolish, again look at the dollars raked in by COD4 and the money involved in the GTA franchise. EA offered 2 BILLION for Take Two Interactive/Rockstar Games. I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure that in video game dollars a REAL and QUALITY Dungeons&Dragons title utilizing the advances in videogame graphics that next gen consoles and high end computer systems offer is worth a lot more than 19 million dollars. I mean lets be real here. As cool as so many people feel World of Warcraft is... it still isn't D&D, even if D&D is starting to take some leads from design and dev of WoW. [I](I know, I know OMG OMG Don't SAY THAT HERE hahaha!... ok kids whatever lol. Take a breath. WoW is afterall more D&D than D&D is WoW despite any rules variants for the table top games. Hell... at one point Blizzard was partnered with WOTC for some table top product. Diablo anyone?) [/I] Even more wrong to me in all this is that the guys working their juevos off on 4e rules set wouldn't see a scrap of that mind boggling amount of money or likely even be credited for their work. I'm pretty sure nobody from WOTC in the 3ed/d20 days even has their name credited in the booklet for KOTOR or KOTOR 2. I looked and couldn't find mention of them anywhere. Maybe I missed it. Case [/QUOTE]

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