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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5854047" data-attributes="member: 73683">This is only a valid observation if the dev team is working with a massive budget (enough to develop an entire new game with modern standards) or a shoestring budget (not enough to do a quality update to an old game). The reality is that they probably have something in between that is sufficient for the task at hand.In the sense that they think that people will pay for something that they want to play, yes. Is there something wrong with that? I'll certainly be buying it.I don't know how much "on" there has been in the last eight years. Once active development stopped back in 2004, I don't believe development of the game has ever been officially restarted.No, it doesn't need it, but I'd sure prefer it that way. And I'm willing to pay for it. And so are a lot of other people, I'll bet. I don't want a game that "plays just fine". I want a game that plays very well.Beamdog has a development team, called Overhaul Games. They've only worked on a couple of projects, but it's not out of the question that they might grow the development team in order to create a full-fledged title from scratch (as opposed to the updates they've been doing with MDK2 and BG). After all, Steam is a digital distribution service, but that focus hasn't stopped Valve from being a game development studio. You can be a digital publisher and a development house at the same time.</blockquote>