Neverwinter Nights, Bioware -> Beamdog?

MrCharlie · February 2019

As someone who followed the trials and tribulations of Bioware and it's acquisition by Electronic Arts, I have got to ask how the heck Canadian based Beamdog sucessfully scored the rights to one of my all time favorite games to play ( and mod ).

A bit about me: I made the LUSH v1.0 mod. Was going to make a LUSH 2.0 but Bioware got baught and I wasn't going to turn over my foliage engine to EA for free. Since then, I got a science degree and make robots.

So whats the story of Beamdog and Bioware's errant child?

Tresset · February 2019

Uhhhh... Are aware that Trent Oster, the project lead for the original NWN and its expansions, is also the CEO of Beamdog? That is likely a very sizable part of it right there...

MrCharlie · February 2019

I didn't know that, and am glad to hear it. I'm still curious as to how the deal went down.

WarChiefZeke · February 2019

MrCharlie wrote: »

As someone who followed the trials and tribulations of Bioware and it's acquisition by Electronic Arts, I have got to ask how the heck Canadian based Beamdog sucessfully scored the rights to one of my all time favorite games to play ( and mod ).

Now let's just hope they actually do something with the rights content wise. Looking like a long shot atm.

megamike15 · February 2019

like Tresset said beamdog was formed by people that worked at bioware. alot of them were the ones that left during the ea years.

JuliusBorisov · February 2019

MrCharlie wrote: »

I didn't know that, and am glad to hear it. I'm still curious as to how the deal went down.

That was a difficult and long process. Catch up with these threads:

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/41456/theres-a-hint-that-the-next-project-for-beamdog-will-be-nwn/p1
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/32362/it-seems-beamdog-has-quitted-on-the-idea-of-nwn-ee-for-now/p1

Neverwinter Nights, Bioware -> Beamdog?

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