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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6013387" data-attributes="member: 7006">Do you even know the name of &quot;the Baldurs gate company&quot;?The company is called 'Bioware'.&nbsp; And THAT was all the &quot;existing name recognition&quot; players needed to know that Dragon Age: Origins (or, as Bioware referred to it &quot;the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate&quot;) was probably going to be good.And do you know WHY Bioware was not making another Dungeons &amp; Dragons video game?&nbsp; It's because THEY ALREADY DID IT.&nbsp; TWICE.&nbsp; Once with the Baldur's Gate series, and once with Neverwinter Nights.&nbsp; And Bioware specifically said they were no longer interested in working with another company's IP and wanted to create their own... which is why Mass Effect and Dragon Age were created, rather than going back for another NN sequel or Baldur's Gate 3.So no... WotC WAS NOT going to spend the money to buy the video game rights to D&amp;D off of Atari... WAS NOT going to get Bioware to make a new video game for them... and WAS NOT going to earn 440 million dollars through any sale of &quot;D&amp;D 4E&quot; video game.&nbsp; And to believe otherwise is to not have any idea of how the video game industry actually works.Once again... yes, I trust the business sense of Wizards of the Coast much more than some random dude who apparently didn't even know the name of the largest RPG video game company in the country (or 'countries' as it were, as Bioware is mainly based in Edmonton).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6013387, member: 7006"] Do you even know the name of "the Baldurs gate company"? The company is called 'Bioware'. And THAT was all the "existing name recognition" players needed to know that Dragon Age: Origins (or, as Bioware referred to it "the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate") was probably going to be good. And do you know WHY Bioware was not making another Dungeons & Dragons video game? It's because THEY ALREADY DID IT. TWICE. Once with the Baldur's Gate series, and once with Neverwinter Nights. And Bioware specifically said they were no longer interested in working with another company's IP and wanted to create their own... which is why Mass Effect and Dragon Age were created, rather than going back for another NN sequel or Baldur's Gate 3. So no... WotC WAS NOT going to spend the money to buy the video game rights to D&D off of Atari... WAS NOT going to get Bioware to make a new video game for them... and WAS NOT going to earn 440 million dollars through any sale of "D&D 4E" video game. And to believe otherwise is to not have any idea of how the video game industry actually works. Once again... yes, I trust the business sense of Wizards of the Coast much more than some random dude who apparently didn't even know the name of the largest RPG video game company in the country (or 'countries' as it were, as Bioware is mainly based in Edmonton). [/QUOTE]

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