VERY IMPORANT - CHANCE OF NWN RESSURECTION!
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From Inayity in NWN Bioware Forums
Some interesting news I haven't seen on here yet. A couple of gaming sites have been reporting that Atari has signed a deal with Good Old Games for digital distribution of the Atari catalog.
Good Old Games is a Polish company which specializes in taking critically-acclaimed but older games, removing any DRM, making the games Vista and XP-compatible and then selling them dirt cheap via their digital distribution network.
While the lawsuit between Hasbro and Atari has left a lot of users uncertain about whether or not the Baldur's Gate series and (of course) the Neverwinter Nights series will be coming to the service, there's quite a bit of hope on this end that such legal wranglings won't have an impact on old games like NWN.
One other thing, these guys at GOG were founded by a company called CD-Projekt. If you haven't heard of them, they were responsible for the Polish localization of the NWN series and were also the only company to actually license the Aurora engine, the engine which drives NWN, to create The Witcher. So not only have they heard of NWN, they forked over the big bucks to get their hands on the source code to make their own game with it.
Anyway, pop on over to GOG.com and check it out.
If you make an account on their site you can vote for the "most-wanted" games. Various flavors of NWN are already represented in the voting but it could use a little more lovin' It is also worth noting that users have also requested the discontinued Premium modules as well and those can be voted for too.
Neverwinter Nights via digital distribution is something I'd like to see, wouldn't you?
What this means is that if there are enough votes for NWN, it can be one of the top games of GOG that can be re-distributed. If this garners enough success, this CAN revive NWN. I urge you all, NWNers, to come and vote. Go here http://www.gog.com/en/wanted/ and type in Neverwinter Nights. It is sad that it has so little votes, yet it is a critically acclaimed game that is still prospering online!
NWN is slowly dying. It has less and less players each year. You know Project CQ and nwshader and all those other graphical overrides? If people see that, they WON'T think of NWN as just another old RPG. It's a CLASSIC.
Please note that, account creation is NOT email validated, nor does it have authorization codes. This means you can create an account as many times as you want and VOTE again and again. We only need about 4000 votes! Please.
Sincerely,
MWPLAYER, a fellow nwn player
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I think this is an awesome idea. It literally took 5 seconds.
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Welp, dunno who you are, but I like it. Voted.
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This has allready been posted before. Go look in the off-topic forum, im too lazy to link you.
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Still wouldn't hurt to post it again, NWN needs all the help it can get.
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As much as I am wanting to play the game again, time constraints just keep me from getting back in. However, something like this could be a big help in extending the life of this game, giving peopel like me the opportunity of waiting until we actually have the time to devote to this game.
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Voted! But I realized, I voted for the original NWN game, not the diamond pack or whatever it's called, the one with the expansions. I meant to vote for that one >.<
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~1UP~
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@nona90:Voted! But I realized, I voted for the original NWN game, not the diamond pack or whatever it's called, the one with the expansions. I meant to vote for that one >.<
You can vote for as many different games as you'd like with the same email. You only need numerous emails if you're trying to vote more than once on the same game.
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Voted 3 times then got bored.
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Oh. I'll do some more voting then :D
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Funny how I can vote for NWN yet I can't decide who to vote for to run my country.
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Can't go wrong with Rage.
This is awesome. Dun it.
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I've purchased several games off of GOG and they are a VERY good company to work with - I have extremely pleased with everything I have purchased from them.
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it is good to see this, it will mean that the game itself will continue on and new players will disccover the game, how will this effect those who already have the game?
will this mean that keys will still be used and handed out with these copies? or will the key system disapear over time (not a good thing)?
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I think they've done it a few ways - for some games they have just had one GOG key for everyone. For others, you email them and they create a key for you.
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@Amber:
Funny how I can vote for NWN yet I can't decide who to vote for to run my country.
Just vote Nasher Alagondar for Prime Minister.
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Good progress, guys. It has just increased about a 100 votes more than yesterday. :)
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I just voted over 50 times…. my eyes hurt.
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I just voted over 50 times…. my eyes hurt.
I didn't think it was possible…but you actually just won CoA you champion you! Commitment to the team! <3 <3 <3 <3
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Would have been easier if the 'logout' button wasn't hidden inside the 'my account' section. got some spare time, more votes.