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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 4423968" data-attributes="member: 18">You seem to assuming there's anything to pull, and I'm questioning whether there is. I think this whole &quot;Only Atari can make ALL D&amp;D GAMES 4EVER!&quot; deal that some people seem to convinced is the case is pretty much as delusional as the &quot;Only SOE can make SW MMOs!&quot;.I don't see any evidence, whatsoever, that Atari has &quot;the experience how to build them&quot;. Turbine's DDO for Atari was total crap, frankly, on virtually any level (from art design to &quot;being D&amp;D&quot; to &quot;being a good MMORPG&quot;), as reflected by it's subscription figures, and BioWare/Obsidian's NWN series isn't so compelling as to draw people from miles around. Frankly, the D&amp;D name is a whole lot bigger than NWN.Really, I think you're completely off-track here. There's no reason to believe that a publisher or developer with previous experience building D&amp;D games would help at all in developing a GENUINELY GOOD 4E game. I'd rather see the license go to someone who hasn't put out a lot of previous D&amp;D stuff, and who is less locked into convention.The Atari name does not sell games, and that's a fact. Of all the names mentioned, only one does. BioWare. And it won't be them, so if it's not BioWare, then it will be someone else, and the only thing that matters is that they are committed to making a good, successful game, and have appropriate funding. Even a brand new studio would have as good a chance of putting out an excellent D&amp;D 4E game, I'd say, as say, Obsidian, or the random German company you mention.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 4423968, member: 18"] You seem to assuming there's anything to pull, and I'm questioning whether there is. I think this whole "Only Atari can make ALL D&D GAMES 4EVER!" deal that some people seem to convinced is the case is pretty much as delusional as the "Only SOE can make SW MMOs!". I don't see any evidence, whatsoever, that Atari has "the experience how to build them". Turbine's DDO for Atari was total crap, frankly, on virtually any level (from art design to "being D&D" to "being a good MMORPG"), as reflected by it's subscription figures, and BioWare/Obsidian's NWN series isn't so compelling as to draw people from miles around. Frankly, the D&D name is a whole lot bigger than NWN. Really, I think you're completely off-track here. There's no reason to believe that a publisher or developer with previous experience building D&D games would help at all in developing a GENUINELY GOOD 4E game. I'd rather see the license go to someone who hasn't put out a lot of previous D&D stuff, and who is less locked into convention. The Atari name does not sell games, and that's a fact. Of all the names mentioned, only one does. BioWare. And it won't be them, so if it's not BioWare, then it will be someone else, and the only thing that matters is that they are committed to making a good, successful game, and have appropriate funding. Even a brand new studio would have as good a chance of putting out an excellent D&D 4E game, I'd say, as say, Obsidian, or the random German company you mention. [/QUOTE]

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