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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 2578992" data-attributes="member: 20741">The premise of the thread is bizarre.First off - Atari (nee Infogrames) already had the rights to D&amp;D and a slew of others. They sold Magic:TG back along with Transformers for 60 million or so.The rest packaged off were irrelevant hangers on from the Hasbro Interactive sale.What was not irrelevant was that there was no way Atari was letting the D&amp;D rights go. The reason is pretty simple: they were the most valuable electronic rights of the lot (far and away) and are part of the core stratey of Atari's business plan.If you don't agree with that assessment - go read Atari's recent SEC filings. D&amp;D titles and D&amp;D online are what they are betting the company on (at least it's a better bet than Driver 3).Hasbro has been shopping D&amp;D for a a while but without the electronic rights that go with it, it's a tough sell.That said: Who would I wish would buy them?Simple: The one company who would husband along D&amp;D as a strong PnP RPG and leverage it to make the very best electronic games possible with the (finally) resulting creative freedom to do it. The company who in my dreams would own D&amp;D as a subsidiary is BioWare Corp..Is that at all realistic? No.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 2578992, member: 20741"] The premise of the thread is bizarre. First off - Atari (nee Infogrames) already had the rights to D&D and a slew of others. They sold Magic:TG back along with Transformers for 60 million or so. The rest packaged off were irrelevant hangers on from the Hasbro Interactive sale. What was not irrelevant was that there was no way Atari was letting the D&D rights go. The reason is pretty simple: they were the most valuable electronic rights of the lot (far and away) and are part of the core stratey of Atari's business plan. If you don't agree with that assessment - go read Atari's recent SEC filings. D&D titles and D&D online are what they are betting the company on (at least it's a better bet than Driver 3). Hasbro has been shopping D&D for a a while but without the electronic rights that go with it, it's a tough sell. That said: Who would I wish would buy them? Simple: The one company who would husband along D&D as a strong PnP RPG and leverage it to make the very best electronic games possible with the (finally) resulting creative freedom to do it. The company who in my dreams would own D&D as a subsidiary is BioWare Corp.. Is that at all realistic? No. [/QUOTE]

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