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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 6166810" data-attributes="member: 2518">Except that the Baldurs Gate were never really WotC IP. Oh sure, they owned the rights of the world it played in, but the game was a product of Atari. And yet WotC seems the need to heavily draw on the popularity of products from a other company to promote their new edition instead of coming up with something on their own.Was there any mention of the Baldurs Gate games in the FR PnP products? Small tidbits at most. And now suddenly WotC uses the iconography of the game heavily to promote their new product. Its not even sure that the Sundering has anything to do with the games and that instead WotC just uses the combination of Baldurs Gate and the Bhaal symbol to get cheep advertising. You might of course love it, but to me that does look like WotC does not trust that their own products are interesting enough.And to use your example, did DC use the Dark Knight movies to heavily promote their Batman Comics and put lots of things from the movie into the comics like the new Bane? No, even though there were likely more people having watched Dark Knight than who read Batman comics.For WotC licensing out D&amp;D was a side business. The core were and still are PnP products and novels. But now they have to use the products of other companies to promote their stuff as apparently they can't do it alone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Derren, post: 6166810, member: 2518"] Except that the Baldurs Gate were never really WotC IP. Oh sure, they owned the rights of the world it played in, but the game was a product of Atari. And yet WotC seems the need to heavily draw on the popularity of products from a other company to promote their new edition instead of coming up with something on their own. Was there any mention of the Baldurs Gate games in the FR PnP products? Small tidbits at most. And now suddenly WotC uses the iconography of the game heavily to promote their new product. Its not even sure that the Sundering has anything to do with the games and that instead WotC just uses the combination of Baldurs Gate and the Bhaal symbol to get cheep advertising. You might of course love it, but to me that does look like WotC does not trust that their own products are interesting enough. And to use your example, did DC use the Dark Knight movies to heavily promote their Batman Comics and put lots of things from the movie into the comics like the new Bane? No, even though there were likely more people having watched Dark Knight than who read Batman comics. For WotC licensing out D&D was a side business. The core were and still are PnP products and novels. But now they have to use the products of other companies to promote their stuff as apparently they can't do it alone. [/QUOTE]

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