In the Name of the King

[Thanee]

Now maybe you can choose to play as a male or female character. I can't remember.

Most likely.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Hand of Evil]

Wait a minute. The leading character is a man?

I thought DS is about a female leading character?

DS2 allowed you to select a character. Both allowed you to build a party, you could then select and control any member of your party.

 

[Steel_Wind]

After this, Bill Gate will be having second thoughts about turning over his leadership mantle to someone else in Microsoft (last I checked, Dungeon Siege is their franchise).

No. Dungeon Siege is the property of Gas Powered Games, the developer.

Microsoft Games Studio was just the publisher.

 

[Knightfall]

I too remember "red head and flaming sword" dungeon siege ads.

I think that was just the enticement, at least, for the the first Dungeon Siege.

 

[Ranger REG]

No. Dungeon Siege is the property of Gas Powered Games, the developer.

Microsoft Games Studio was just the publisher.

So, Microsoft is doing Gas Powered Game a favor?

Why do I find that hard to believe? :\

 

[Arnwyn]

So, Microsoft is doing Gas Powered Game a favor?

Why do I find that hard to believe? :\

Uh... what?

 

[Ranger REG]

Uh... what?

I find it hard to believe that a corporation like Microsoft won't claim Dungeon Siege as their own IP.

Did Uwe Boll negotiated with Microsoft or with Gas Powered Game for the film right?

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

I find it hard to believe that a corporation like Microsoft won't claim Dungeon Siege as their own IP.

They might buy it off of the creators.

But they're not just going to reach out and grab it into their ever-expanding Maw of Evil.

Brad

 

[Ranger REG]

They might buy it off of the creators.

I thought they already did.

But they're not just going to reach out and grab it into their ever-expanding Maw of Evil.

No, but they could in the agreement that GPG will relinquish IP ownership to Microsoft in exchange for publishing the game they designed.

 

[jester47]

Lookiong around, I find myself sitting in building 26 on the MS Campus. MS makes its own games but also publishes other people's games. Sort of like the way Sword and Sorcery Studios published Necromancer Games stuff for several years. The box gets the microsoft logo, and MS offers help in getting all the XBOX kinks out of the program (I did some work on the technology that helps facilitate these kind of relationships) and then puts it in the aforementioned box and sends it to stores.

A good example is the relationship between Big Blue Box/Lionhead Studios and MS with Fable and Fable 2. MS doesn't own Fable of BBB/LH. But it has a pretty big stick in the advertising world and is able to get a large volume of games into stores b/c of name recognition.

By the way, most sugar, milk and other staples are made at the same factories and just put in different bottles for branding and name recognition purposes. In Seattle, the albertsons milk comes from the same place as the safeway milk and the REAL milk, which is wilcox farms milk. In Boise ID, all the sugar comes from the same factory except CH. Microsoft does the same thing, moves a game based on brand recognition and brand loyalty.

The story of Bungie is weird b/c microsoft bought them in 2000, and in 2007 they let them go.