Does this mean Neverwinter nights 2 on steam is possible in future?

[Zhylaw]

Does beamdog own neverwinter nights 2 now as well or is it a seperate licensing thing? If this does well can NWN2 potentially end up on steam?

Bons question: Are there any other D&D games beamdog technically has the rights to release on steam now? Could we see something crazy like remastered dark sun or ravenloft someday?

Cheers

[Silvaren]

They have rights for all Infinity Engine games and NWN. While in BioWare, Trent Oster was game director for Neverwinter Nights, so he's nostalgic about NWN.

NWN 2 was on Steam but it was removed from the store because of legal issue. Now everything is clear. I would guess, if Beamdog has rights for Neverwinter Nights, then the studio has rights for its sequel, because both games came from Atari grasp and Beamdog has very good relationship with Wizards of the Coast.

License from old Black Isle & BioWare allowed to produce games in Planescape and Forgotten Realms setting along with AD&D 2 and D&D 3 edition. And Neverwinter Nights from Atari (while WotC pushed the newest version of D&D as possible each time someone was making a game based on their license - Siege of Dragonspear was an excpetion). I gues they won't remaster old but gold Pool of Radiance and its sequels or Shattered Lands and its sequel. Eye of the Beholder or anything from SSI/TSR.

[Marksthecylon]

Obsidian made neverwinter nights 2 not bioware.

[Silvaren]

Originally posted by Marksthecylon:

Obsidian made neverwinter nights 2 not bioware.

It doesn't matter. Black Isle did Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment not BioWare. The same situation. Beamdog didn't get license from BioWare, but from Atari and Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro. BioWare has no rights for Baldur's Gate and Obsidian has no rights for Neverwinter Nights or old games when they work as Black Isle under Interplay. That's why Obsidian did Pillars of Eternity - their first own franchise. Black Isle lost rights for their games. Troika lost rights for Arcanum (now Activision has it), World of Darkness, D&D. Obsidian lost rights for KotOR (Disney/EA & Aspyr Media), Neverwinter Nights (Atari), Aliens (Sega), Alpha Protocol (Sega has it too), South Park (Ubisoft), Fallout (Bethesda) and even Tyranny (Paradox has rights for this franchise, while Paradox get license for Wolrd of Darkness but no one knows how Obsidian-Paradox relationship looks now - they won't go along with Pillars 2). Lot of classic cRPG can't be remastered today.

[Ayurai]

Originally posted by Silvaren:

Originally posted by Marksthecylon:

Obsidian made neverwinter nights 2 not bioware.

It doesn't matter. Black Isle did Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment not BioWare. The same situation. Beamdog didn't get license from BioWare, but from Atari and Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro. BioWare has no rights for Baldur's Gate and Obsidian has no rights for Neverwinter Nights or old games when they work as Black Isle under Interplay. That's why Obsidian did Pillars of Eternity - their first own franchise. Black Isle lost rights for their games. Troika lost rights for Arcanum (now Activision has it), World of Darkness, D&D. Obsidian lost rights for KotOR (Disney/EA & Aspyr Media), Neverwinter Nights (Atari), Aliens (Sega), Alpha Protocol (Sega has it too), South Park (Ubisoft), Fallout (Bethesda) and even Tyranny (Paradox has rights for this franchise, while Paradox get license for Wolrd of Darkness but no one knows how Obsidian-Paradox relationship looks now - they won't go along with Pillars 2). Lot of classic cRPG can't be remastered today.

"they wong go along with pillars 2" ?

Anyway no NWN2 yet.

[wendigo211]

Apparently NWN2 is in something of a legal limbo right now. When Atari reached a deal with Steam to put their games back on the platform, NWN2 was not on the list because apparently other parties have a claim to the rights.

I suppose the good news for Obsidian is that they could possible work on another Fallout game, since Microsoft owns both them and the rights to Fallout now. Since they're looking to capitalise on the success of the TV show, they might get OEI to make another game while Bethesda gets their stuff in order for Fallout 5.

[anaris]

nwn2 has this weird mix of assets and writing now bc atari, which was actually like 3-4 companies, went bankrupt, which gave people the right to reclaim stuff they'd sold to the company and required that they sell off things that people wanted. The Atari we now know today is what's left of these companies, and doesn't own everything. GoG bought up the remaining keys and the existing rights to sell it as a "buy once and own" product, their sales use the same licence agreements as cd sales did. To put it onto steam though they need a new digital semi-ownership agreement, which is difficult because they'd have to get multiple differnet people in a room and hammer out a deal that's popular with all of them at once.

[anaris]

iirc there's Ravenloft content for this if ur interested, the PRC Presents module repository definitely offer a version of the original strahd module