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<blockquote data-quote="shadzar" data-source="post: 5434310" data-attributes="member: 6667746">We would have to have that Danny(something) that is a lawyer to give thoughts, but AFAIK, WotC owns NWN as well as D&amp;D, but Atari or Infogrammes, or whoever, owns the code to the game. So even when the rights revert back to WotC/HASBRO, the code for that/those visualizers form the NWN games, will belong to Atari. They may not be able to use that code again even with different images, or might not even be allowed to since it was used in a licensed title.Also since Atari owns the rights to video games for D&amp;D (until 2017? 2015?), WotC might not be allowed to make things that look like a video game and be confused as one, so might have caused problems for them going forward with any of the plans had for the VC or VTT. Which is funny, if they didnt attack fans for fan made things like character sheets, or tools, then maybe they would have gotten fan support enough to let WotC make its VTT and VC resemble a video game more, so that Atari wasnt made to look like a bad guy from fans with signed affadavids stating that the VTT and VC are not confusable with an actual video game. But you know...bite the hand that feeds you and you have to deal with the wound until it heals.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shadzar, post: 5434310, member: 6667746"] We would have to have that Danny(something) that is a lawyer to give thoughts, but AFAIK, WotC owns NWN as well as D&D, but Atari or Infogrammes, or whoever, owns the code to the game. So even when the rights revert back to WotC/HASBRO, the code for that/those visualizers form the NWN games, will belong to Atari. They may not be able to use that code again even with different images, or might not even be allowed to since it was used in a licensed title. Also since Atari owns the rights to video games for D&D (until 2017? 2015?), WotC might not be allowed to make things that look like a video game and be confused as one, so might have caused problems for them going forward with any of the plans had for the VC or VTT. Which is funny, if they didnt attack fans for fan made things like character sheets, or tools, then maybe they would have gotten fan support enough to let WotC make its VTT and VC resemble a video game more, so that Atari wasnt made to look like a bad guy from fans with signed affadavids stating that the VTT and VC are not confusable with an actual video game. But you know...bite the hand that feeds you and you have to deal with the wound until it heals. [/QUOTE]

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