Sir-Tech Still Around?

[Tattoo]

Will there be a Wizardry 2015 ?

[probe]

Nope they went bankrupt quite some time ago AFAIK ....

[Scrubwave]

Pretty sure they just announced a Wizardry MOBA on kickstarter few days ago, saying this is how they always envisioned the franchise to be.

[probe]

Here's a thread about the subject and the Wiz license > http://steamcommunity.com/app/245450/discussions/0/846964364039702894/

[jimboola]

I think they went bust before W8 was even released...

[probe]

Yep.... The canadian department finished Wiz8 after Sir-Tech had closed

[Ithaqua]

What Probe said. Sir-tech US went belly up and Sir-Tech Canada finished off Wiz8 (And I think the last Jagged Alliance as well). They had just enough funds to survive about 6 months after W8 was released then they died. IIRC there was a small group in Germany that kept the forums and patches coming for another year or so.

[ByTheNumbers]

Their bankruptcy was also another reason why Wizardry 8 had around 200K copies produced too, and perhaps contributed to a high e-bay price tag if you wanted to get a hand on second-hand physical copies.

[Ithaqua]

Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure didn't help the financial issues at Sir-Tech either. I think I'm one of the few people who bought the game.

[Nuee]

ITs a shame but they are not.

[DCT]

As others pointed out, Sirtech is dead between a lengthy legal battle between them and Wizardry co-creator Andrew Greenburg over unpayed royalities, poor sales of their last few releases, Wizardy 8 changing hands from a team in Australia to the Jagged Alliance team resulting in the game being redone entierly and so on. The Wizardry liscence, Tradmarks and all that are now owned by a Japanese company called IPM and their subsiderary Gamepot.

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by jimboola:

I think they went bust before W8 was even released...

That's the basic answer. The company ceased to exist as a developer with the release of Wizardry 8 in 2001. It didn't shut down in bankruptcy until 2003.

So there were a few employees left cleaning things up, talking with the community and issuing a final patch. But it was just sad... Everyone knew that Sir-Tech wasn't coming back from the dead and the Wizardry Series was over-and-done with.

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by Ithaqua:

Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure didn't help the financial issues at Sir-Tech either. I think I'm one of the few people who bought the game.

You and me both. And I think it was the best of all of them.

[Zhorge]

Originally posted by ByTheNumbers:

Their bankruptcy was also another reason why Wizardry 8 had around 200K copies produced too, and perhaps contributed to a high e-bay price tag if you wanted to get a hand on second-hand physical copies.

I still have my original CD. (Of course, I have my original Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate (all of them), Ice Wind Dale, Morrowind, etc. CDs, too. Mostly because I'm a pack-rat who refuses to throw away a great, if out-dated game.)

But I'll probably buy this off Steam just in case... Even if I don't play it much.

[Mew Mew]

Originally posted by Zhorge:

Originally posted by ByTheNumbers:

Their bankruptcy was also another reason why Wizardry 8 had around 200K copies produced too, and perhaps contributed to a high e-bay price tag if you wanted to get a hand on second-hand physical copies.

I still have my original CD. (Of course, I have my original Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate (all of them), Ice Wind Dale, Morrowind, etc. CDs, too. Mostly because I'm a pack-rat who refuses to throw away a great, if out-dated game.)

But I'll probably buy this off Steam just in case... Even if I don't play it much.

I have the physical copy, too. Spend a small freaking fortune buying it second hand some time back. I kind of want to get it here on Steam, too, just to keep track of how much I play, but it's hard to justify buying a game I already own when there are no achievements or anything as a perk. :(