jdreyer wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 16:08:
Not sure why they'd need Kickstarter at all. Just use the profits from the enh'd version of BG and BGII to fund BGIII.
Because its a money/market share grab?
RollinThundr wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 15:49:
Interplay has nothing to do with it. Infograms/Atari currently holds the interactive license for D&D.
Interplay made BG1 and BG2, so yeah, they have something to do with it. And just because atari has it, doesn't preclude the existence of an old contract, say for a BG trilogy, that wizards didn't think about putting expiration date on it way back when.
Or just do what Blackhawk said and get a pathfinder license or make up a system. Interplay probably owns the rights to specific characters, so they could at least use the same character names. Renaming Chain Lighting to Ripple Lightning won't change the game (or whatever the equivs are, I'm not too familiar with D&D).
This comment was edited on Mar 19, 2012, 16:41.