Beamdog on Possible Baldur's Gate III Kickstart

An article from Friday on GameSpy has quotes from Cameron Tofer of Beamdog's studio Overhaul Games about their recently announced plans for Enhanced Editions of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II (thanks PC Gamer). In addition to discussion of their plans to update as well as enhance the original RPGs, he explains their long-term goal is indeed to make Baldur's Gate III, though this is just in the talking stage for now, though some of the talk includes the prospects of a Kickstarter campaign to get this going:
"Baldur's Gate 3 has been our long term goal. We have a lot of things to put in place before such a project can be launched. So currently there is no such project but that's the one we want to do. Our thoughts have been that Enhanced Edition for BG 1 and 2 just make sense before there's any Baldur's Gate 3."

"We're totally thinking Kickstarter. It just makes so much sense and solves so many problems. I think what Brian [Fargo] is doing with Wasteland is very interesting."
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The thing is though, it would be a kickstart for selling a game ONLY through beamdog, just like MDK HD. I would NOT kickstart something like that.
ASeven wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 14:22:
As others mentioned, I'm wary of someone mentioning a kickstarter when they haven't even showed anything from their enhanced edition. IMO this smells of a scam.
The enhanced MDK HD edition showed up there and no where else. I don't think its a scam as such, more just trying to get market share for their website download service. They probably got some rights from interplay for some of this stuff. Problem is, do they have any experience doing games besides enhancing existing ones? I'm not sure I'd trust a company like this to do a decent job. I'd certainly have to see the result before I bought it, and if it wasn't on steam, but instead on yet another platform I'd have to sign up for, it would be far less likely that I'd buy it.
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