Game News Trent in Trouble: Beamdog forbidden from selling and patching BG:EE, BG2:EE on "indefinite hold"

Project V13 section is hidden or deleted?

 

Hidden. But not from the invested.in website.

http://invested.in/projects/find, type Black Isle and it should be the first result.

 

No patching, eh? So the retards actually buying this will be left with unplayable mess... forever.
Excellent outcome.

 

If theyre losing the rights but refuse to sell to someone else what happens to F1/2 on GOG?

 

Brian better start a kickstarter if WL2 can't get him enough.

 

Infinitron

It would be rather funny, if not poetic. But I think the InXile brand is just really powerful: Interplay and Black Isle nostalgia may be powerful enough to draw people other than the Caens into donating for V13, but the InXile is tells a story. Its tied to their whole rethoric and Fargo's marketting turned it into a celebration of Kickstarter and 'old skool gaming' itself.

He might buy it out of care for the brand and its history, to deliver a more dignified death. But that's it. Unless Interplay has something interesting under its name - assets of canceled yet interesting projects and such.

 

If you buy interplay you get herve's 'stache.

 

I realized that it was about Interplay and not fallout after posting, but I figured I'd let a codexian scold me first

 

Actually, this is important: the brand might be cursed. Do you want Fargo to turn into Herve, Infinitron?

 

Indefinite hold... Infinite hold

 

Oh, there's that. Hadn't thought of checking their catalog =p.

eh... I don't actually know Freespace

 

Fuck him, his team, and all the motherfucking assholes who gave him money.

 

BG:EE would have been palatable if, after realizing they couldn't actually enhance anything, they simply marketed it as a port to mobile platforms. But they decided to keep pretending that they were enhancing things so they could re-sell the game to everyone on the PC platform and piled shit onto the game.

 

Can't say I feel sorry. I'm glad we'll be spared a Planescape: Torment - Fucked-up Edition.

 

Fuck. I don't even know man. On one hand the schadenfreude is fucking orgasmic on the other I just feel sad about being such a fucking cynic. BG was THE game for me as a teenager and I've spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours on it, not even counting the sequel. I didn't even pirate this fucking mess. Trent is a cunt, the gaming industry is retarded and I hate everything. Time to break out the exit bag.

 

That's not cynicism, that's sanity. To clearly see through Trent's marketing bullshit and not be blinded by nostalgia is a sure sign of a healthy mind, let the other bastards that have brought upon us this abomination be stuffed into bags instead.

 

Always sorry to hear of anyone daring to do getting fucked for any reason, and I do wish them the best. On the other hand...just played BGEE and BG2 GoG Edition through and didn't see how the EE improved on Tutu at all. I wanted so badly to believe in this project, too. =( I hope for their sake BG2EE makes the market and I'll pry pick it up regardless just to show solidarity. But the sad fact is these guys are trying to monetize what the BG fanbase has been doing better for free since BG2's release. ugh so depressing. If I were a tablet owner (and mods worked on iPads, gotta patch in my gayness), I guess I'd still be celebrating such an awesome mobile experience. But I ain't, for now. saaad

 

Crawlkill, I think you're handsome.

 

Ah, Trent.

 

Yeah, I had some hope in the project, but even from an artistic perspective what they did was hideous. Shit, how they are so fucking blind to find that ugly colored interface an enhancement? And those blurry backgrounds for the new areas? Even I when I started on AoD could make better looking textures. It's like they weren't even fucking trying.

 

It is always a pity to see legalism interfere in game development, even if I don't care for what they were developing.