Interplay lost Baldur's Gate?

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Something is up. The Dungeon and Dragon games, including the new Dark Alliance II title, are gone from the Interplay website. They are no longer listed in the A-Z Games list or in the Interplay web store. The game review links also dissapeared from the front page. Maybe Caen's nightmare scenario of losing the rights to publish Dark Alliance came true? There is no confirmation on this and no official statement has been issued about the dissapearance of those titles.

Thanks to frymuchman for the news.
 
Wow, that is some good fact finding.

Now, to speculate on its meanings!

Caen probably had to sell the rights and everything to fund the building of his mansion. I hate life.
 
Alright, scenario here. Interplay had Atari after its tail right now with an indictment for not following the D&D agreements, or something. Caen is in no position to pay for an expensive suit right now, so what did he do? He proposed to Atari that rather than going through an expensive lawsuit, which Interplay could well stand to lose and with which Interplay would lose it's DA license and back catalogue, Interplay would *sell* the DA license and back catalogue to Atari, as a form of settlement. Gives Interplay some quick cash too.
 
Your theory makes sense Kharn. But the big question is "which game is going to save interplay?". BGDA was interplay's gold eggs's goose. If Iplay really did that...... That means it's going down to hell.
 
Saint_Proverbius said:
Mr. Teatime said:
If Caen is selling licenses, wouldn't he sell the Fallout one before BG? SInce BG makes more money....
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Because they don't OWN the Baldur's Gate rights. They're renting them.
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But they do *own* the backcatalogue, right?
 
Looks like it's more than just that.

Given the absence of the Icewind Dale titles and Planescape:Torment from the list, I'd wager IPlay lost ALL their D&D rights whatsoever.
 
HA....great. Now they have nothing BUT fallout. Wich means they will through together POS 2 or finsih up F3, but it will be pure crap and they will go down and bring fallout with them. Bastards.
 
I just hope they won't release F3 in the state it is now to make some quick bucks resulting in an engine full of bugs and an incomplete story. Makes me think of someone's signature I recently read: Hey, it compiles... Ship it!
Can't see why Interplay is even trying to keep its head above water. Is there ANY hope whatsoever that they'll get out of this mess?
 
Sir Unimaginative said:
Looks like it's more than just that.

Given the absence of the Icewind Dale titles and Planescape:Torment from the list, I'd wager IPlay lost ALL their D&D rights whatsoever.
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Yep
HA....great. Now they have nothing BUT fallout. Wich means they will through together POS 2 or finsih up F3, but it will be pure crap and they will go down and bring fallout with them. Bastards.
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Actually without BGDA2 money beeing advanced, they`re pretty much rock bottom. They have a couple of weeks to find a solution, or close down.
 
Interplay? Hope?

They've been receding ever since the year has been a number starting with 2. A few weeks of throwing stuff together isn't going to recover from a few years of decline.
 
wyatt said:
HA....great. Now they have nothing BUT fallout. Wich means they will through together POS 2 or finsih up F3, but it will be pure crap and they will go down and bring fallout with them. Bastards.
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They won't last that long.

And that frymuchan guy needs to get a clue. He's holding on to 600,000 shares of IPLY stock because he thinks Herve can find a buyer. No one wants to buy Interplay when they can just wait a month or so for the liquidation sale.
 
Saint_Proverbius said:
And that frymuchan guy needs to get a clue. He's holding on to 600,000 shares of IPLY stock because he thinks Herve can find a buyer. No one wants to buy Interplay when they can just wait a month or so for the liquidation sale.
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In all honesty, what else can he do with them? If he dumps 600,000 shares into the market *right now*, the stock price will plummet and Interplay will immediately go belly-up
 
This is absolutely classic.

They put off doing BG3 and FO3, give away rights to BG for PC, focus their entire future on Dark Alliance, and then have their D&D license stripped.

Brilliant strategy Herve, absolutely brilliant.

Thanks for stripping IP so you can fund Titus.

Thank you for turning a company that gave a damn about their consumers into a shell.

Thank you for bankrupting that shell.

Go back to France, you fucker.
 
EyeMaster7 said:
But the big question is "which game is going to save interplay?". BGDA was interplay's gold eggs's goose. If Iplay really did that...... That means it's going down to hell.
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The answer is very easy. Simply click on the Comig Soon link and what you get is:
<We're sorry, there are no games matching your criteria. Please try broadening your criteria in our Advanced Game Search (above) or head over to our Games Page for our FULL LIST of games.>
:lol: HAHAHAHA well done Herve!
 
Kharn said:
In all honesty, what else can he do with them? If he dumps 600,000 shares into the market *right now*, the stock price will plummet and Interplay will immediately go belly-up
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The stock's been down to 4 cents before. It's not going to go belly up if 600,000 shares are put back on the market. In fact, everyone could dump all their stock except Herve and Eric, and nothing will happen.

If he does dump them, he won't be out $45,000. If Atari and Vivendi starve Interplay out, he will be out that much.

All Interplay has now in terms of money is what Avalon gave them, with little else coming in. Fallout Enforcer had 200,000 units shipped, right? 19,000 of those have sold from what Killian just told me. They're not going to see anything else from that title, ever. They're not going to see anything else from any of their D&D games, including BG: DA2.

They don't have a game ready to ship now at all, and with the D&D games gone, that's close to half their titles. Nearly all of their good selling, high profile ones. No more bundle sets, no more BG: DA games, and so on.

Also, keep in mind Interplay has no credit at all. None. Pretty much all their ways of getting cash are tapped.

All Atari and Vivendi have to do is wait for that money from Avalon to run out. I bet that won't take a month because of what happened today.

Well, they might be able to sell that ping pong table for $20, but that's about it.

Pope_Viper said:
They put off doing BG3 and FO3, give away rights to BG for PC, focus their entire future on Dark Alliance, and then have their D&D license stripped.
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That's why I called it in my news item on the subject, THE DUMBEST MOVE IN GAMING HISTORY JUST GOT DUMBER.
 
As if Herve was ever in danger of not being paid his salary, no matter what decisions he makes.

Anyway, of course there are no more games in the works, all the employees are too busy working on their resumes. The Interplay printers are likely spewing them around the clock.
 
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