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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rl'Halsinor" data-source="post: 3145728" data-attributes="member: 19772">As I have read it over the past few years, game makers are at the mercy of game publishers because the publishers hold the purse strings and whoever has the money has the final say.  Troika was forced by Atari to release that mess called The Temple of Elemental Evil long before it was ready.  Just check the Atari forums and look at the Temple of Elemental Evil forum and look up the massive amount of bugs that game had.  Troika knew it wasn't ready but Atari released it anyway.  And to top it off Atari was reluctant to release an official patch and when they did it was far from being able to fix all the bugs.There was need for another patch, but Atari resisted and the second one was actually done by a Troika employee in his spare time!  Yet that still didn't resolve all the issues.  It took a third patch from the fansite Circle of Eight to straighten out this travesty.Now here is the thing for me: I will wait to see how NWN2 plays because the publisher is none other than Atari and Atari is in extreme trouble over cash flow.  The New York Stock Exchange removed them because they were deemed no longer viable as a public trade company.  That is bad news.Could Atari be pushing the release of this game because of their desperate need for cash?  Christmas is coming and it is the time when more money is made than all the other months combined.  I hope I am wrong, but with Atari I have my suspicions.</blockquote>

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