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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.

http://www.gog.com/en/wanted/

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

edit: alright, editted the macro thing if it has offended anyone. :oops:

mwplayer wrote:

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.

^ Because of that, I highly suggest someone makes a macro or bot to do it. Much easier because of no email or authorization code required.

Sincerely,

MWPLAYER, a fellow nwn player

While I appreciate the sentiment, that strikes me as dishonest.

While I certainly hope they do select NWN for digital redistribution, I won't be voting personally since I (1) use a Macintosh and (2) already own a copy of the game, and so am not a potential customer.

I haz voted!

Same. And Monkey Island! Woots!

Wyjyn: Loving all of you (and above all Disco) since 11 Jan 2007.

My personal view is that nwn diamond should have been released as a bargain game in stores for $20 or less, the game would have way more people playing if that were the case and atari probably would have made an increased total profit as well. Pity really.

I got my copy of NWN Diamond for about... $10, if I remember correctly. >.>

$20 for me... That was some years ago as well.

Only cost me $25 IIRC

Wyjyn: Loving all of you (and above all Disco) since 11 Jan 2007.

Store bought? Where do you people live seriously, Thailand?

Mine was something like $30, in 2005. Or was that Platinum? I can't remember.

I don't know where you got yours Wyjyn, but eastcoast US, Diamond ran me $20 too. That was about a a year or so after I bought Platinum for a friend and me for $20 then as well. Hell, When I first started playing NWN like 5 years ago, I got Gold version for $5 out of a Marshall's bargain bin >.> Best $5 I ever spent on a non-edible product.

PFft... Am I the only one that has the vanilla NWN, real SotU and real HotU boxes? Originally bought, all of them on the day they came out... well. Except HotU, that was a gift from an old friend.

I still have the Vanilla boxes m'self.

I have vanilla NWN, but I didn't think it was particularly good. I only bought HotU and SoU to play Amia after hearing such great things about it from Genar_Detkasa and Drakos_Vek, who are my nearest & dearest friends in real life.

What?!? They come without boxes??? Dammit! I'm so behind the times.... I guess that explains why I get the dot, dot, dot response when I tell people to check the manual that came with the game.

TormakSaber wrote:

PFft... Am I the only one that has the vanilla NWN, real SotU and real HotU boxes? Originally bought, all of them on the day they came out... well. Except HotU, that was a gift from an old friend.

Nope, I got them too.

Well, the original NWN at least. The two addons were packed for 10$ in the same box. *shrug*

A pet ate my original copy of nwn, had to buy a diamond

Bravo21 wrote:

What?!? They come without boxes??? Dammit! I'm so behind the times.... I guess that explains why I get the dot, dot, dot response when I tell people to check the manual that came with the game.

Don't read the NWN manual

And manuals do come with games ... as pdfs

I haz the originals, as well. And voting.

Edit: Voting is stupid. Why does it separate the NWN expansions like that, when there's virtually no server or individual who use just some of them instead of all of them? Should just be one vote: NWN1. Hopefully they collect the total votes that are now spread over 5-6 options... then you easily get a couple of thousand at the least.

Edit 2: And why does it want me to make a bloody account?! Sorry, that blocks me from voting... not gonna make stupid account I will never use again.

I'd much rather have it on Steam.

Nekhy wrote:

I haz the originals, as well. And voting.

Edit: Voting is stupid. Why does it separate the NWN expansions like that, when there's virtually no server or individual who use just some of them instead of all of them? Should just be one vote: NWN1. Hopefully they collect the total votes that are now spread over 5-6 options... then you easily get a couple of thousand at the least.

Edit 2: And why does it want me to make a bloody account?! Sorry, that blocks me from voting... not gonna make stupid account I will never use again.

Two good reasons why I never vote on those things.

You can't have it all, Jan.

It's an unfair world, innit.

Highly unfair.

I have the original games/expansions/boxes/manuals too, but I became too lazy to put in several discs to reinstall.

Make ISO files out of them and use an ISO mounter. You'll be impressed with the installation speed.

Nah, I've just got all the files on a USB stick now. ;P

Yurell wrote:

Nekhy wrote:

I haz the originals, as well. And voting.

Edit: Voting is stupid. Why does it separate the NWN expansions like that, when there's virtually no server or individual who use just some of them instead of all of them? Should just be one vote: NWN1. Hopefully they collect the total votes that are now spread over 5-6 options... then you easily get a couple of thousand at the least.

Edit 2: And why does it want me to make a bloody account?! Sorry, that blocks me from voting... not gonna make stupid account I will never use again.

Two good reasons why I never vote on those things.

Damn your eyes! It takes only two seconds and it is for a good cause!

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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.

So what? That game is years old. Anyone who wants NWN can get it from the bargain bin at every corner. Who needs to get it online?

hendrack wrote:

So what? That game is years old. Anyone who wants NWN can get it from the bargain bin at every corner. Who needs to get it online?

To be honest, I haven't seen it in EB for ages.

Impossible to get hands on it here where I live.

Yeah. Some site where you can buy/download the game would be very nice.

I see a single copy of Diamond edition once in a while. But yeah, a download would be kewl. What's there to lose for the publisher, anyway? I'm actually surprised more publishers don't put up all their games for digital downloads and roll a bit of extra cash from the sales, instead of forcing people to download illegal copies. Steam is already there and has old games, so it's not a matter of having good and popular platform available (which is the music industry's common excuse for failing).

But because of people like you we can't have anything nice. ;_;

You selfish slob.

The Slob is one post above. I like my maiden name, thank you very much.

Let the boy whine?

Anyway, I know some people who are very eager to get their hands on this game. I genuinely believe the game would sell well.

Urrr - what on earth are you babbling about? I agree with you?

Wha?Whe?Ho?Wh?Wher? Great. Now I'm confused myself.

Oh that happens. Don't lose your sleep over it.

*has the original boxes and manuals... on real paper... yes paper*

I find a little bit of this silly because somehow when I was shown NWN, I was able to turn around and buy Diamond Edition right off the shelf; fresh, clean, new! At BestBuy. Like it was still a craze to be found. Heck it was even sitting next to WoW.

Of course, thats not the same for everyone and probably not the same anymore. *Votes*

NWN is present on in diamond or platnium edition on the PC wall of EB Games for under $20.

Sounds like a load of BS honestly.

EB Games still eixsts? Gamestop bought them out. GameCrazy is going under too.

EB Games is all over the place here.

Also fairly prevalant here.

Well, it takes time for the iron hand of corporate buyout to reach all the stores!

..I had to order mine online for my kid brother because I couldn't find a store that carried it in driving distance.

*goes to vote*

Good progress, guys. It has just increased about a 100 votes more than yesterday.

My God. System Shock 2 is there too. And I still haven't finished it. Those blasted mid-wives...

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