VERY IMPORTANT - CHANCE OF NWN REVIVAL!

[mwplayer]

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.

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 out the macro bot in case it offends anyone else.

[Lulzebub]

I don't advocate the use of a macro bot, as that usually causes more harm than good. Otherwise, thanks for sharing.

EDIT: Voted.

[Canzah]

Voted.

[Snoteye]

I am surprised such a supposedly popular game has but a mere 500 votes.

[Coldburn]

Good post.
NWN, BG and PS:T.

[Thomas_Not_very_wise]

I am surprised such a supposedly popular game has but a mere 500 votes.

Over-consensus effect. You always think more people play the same game/have the condition/live your way of life than actually do.

Psychology is fun, ya!

[Paha]

It also seems that since there are many different nwn versions, mods and expansions, some may have only voted for one or two and not all. If there was only one that consisted of all nwn 1 packages, and then one for nwn 2 packages, I'd assume they would have more votes.

[Gippy]

Or... just other games had people using macro bots. Go vote! I'd love to play NWN's on vista.

[Snoteye]

Over-consensus effect. You always think more people play the same game/have the condition/live your way of life than actually do.

The active playerbase is closer to 5000 than 500.

But Gippy's probably right.

[Paha]

Nwn doesn't work on vista? Works for me on windows 7 atleast.

[Ommadawn]

Nwn doesn't work on vista? Works for me on windows 7 atleast.

It works just fine, trust me. I've run it (using admin privileges and XP compatibility set) on my Vista laptop for months without a single crash.

[Udenbur]

I run it with Vista myself, though I have had some hardcore shutdowns due to NWN which I haven't had with any other game.

[Yalta]

I am confused.
 
I run it almost every day on Vista with no issues... I just had to click one extra time to "Run as Admin" and it works fine
 
Odd.
 
Will probably vote so i don't have to click that once but still... never been a major issue for me.

[Underwood]

There are a bunch of votes for NwN:HotU and SoU. If those are added it has a thousand some votes, I think. Still nowhere near the top.