[IMPORTANT] A campaign to get the official tools released

You can count me in. eace:

 

I never even thought about that--about them gaining profits off of your mods.

I'm totally in, though not much I can do.

 

u can count me in.....
ive played dungeon siege 1 and 2 , and neverwinter nights all 3 expansions. and now am totally hooked in toee and to be quite honest dungeon seige 2 sucked,it was nothin i expected at all.
toee now has great potential but lacks in quality and diversity which us as fans and players along with brilliant modders within co8 can add to toee to make it a smash hit...count me in all the way for as long as ur willin to put up a fight...(which i hope is never ending)

 

Honestly, of all the D&D games I've played ToEE seems to have the most potential, especially after seeing how far it's been taken by everyone here.

A modding kit for it would me fantastic, and it's even something I'd be totally content to pay for. New content with that wouldn't hurt.

It's weird how now the graphics are fairly dated, but it's still one of the most gorgeous games I've played inages...

So here's the question, what official places should responces be submitted too? Does anyone have an idea of what part of Atari holds the license?

 

I am fully supportive of this action. I half my own private belief that it will be ignored yet again though. My reasoning for this is as follows:

Over one year has passed since your original intent was made known to Atari. Upon ignoring you, it caused you to simply continue what you were doing, which is making mods for the game, etc. What do you think Atari has really been doing all this time? Definately not sitting on their hands. It is my firm belief that if you look into any of their new games you may just find a few of YOUR coding snippets in them.

Atari is a scavenger shark. I think for the past year they've sat back, watched the mods and patches come out, snagged them, and learned how to integrate your much better work into their own systems, thus scavenging off of all your hard effort without having to pay a dime for the coding.

So though I will more than gladly support an all out frontal assault of Atari in form of email, snail mail, phone lines, and even rented hot air balloons if needed (though perhaps bribing a window washer to use a grease stick on their corporate windows to leave the message would be more noticeable), I think they will do as they have done in the past, which is to ignore the request and keep leeching off your hard work.

 

Im in. Definately want this set of tools out for the company.

 

I'm in. Co8 has made a good game great! I'd love to see more with this turn based game. Come on, Atari! Be a good corporate citizen and release it!

 

I personally have gotten 3 people to purchase ToEE in the bargain bin by directing them to Co8. So it does nothing but sell copies, whether that money is already in Atari's pockets is another story. It does grow Atari's brand name and may direct people to their other games.

 

another lurker joins the quest

 

I was wondering about that.
I think it is to the best interests of the company itself (Atari) to release those tools since this would by all probability revive interest in a three-year-old game.
By means of example, one could witness what happened, not only with Neverwinter Nights, but also with Rome Total War. There are many people who still play BECAUSE of the mods.
It would cost next to nothing to the company to release these tools. They would not need to put them in a CD, they could simply release them online, in the same way that Creative Assembly (if I am not mistaken) released the expansion "Alexander" for Rome Total War.
In fact, they already have these tools, all they need to do is post them somewhere for people to download them (at a price, of course).
I think it is a win-win situation for Atari. It just doesn't make sense to hold onto these tools anymore, particularly now that Nevewinter Nights 2 is on the way.

And, as you understand, yes, I am in.

 

I just started Playing ToEE again because of the Co8 mods and will support any reasonable campaign that would lead to more of the fantastic mods and content!
I even had to go and buy a bargain bag copy due to the sad demise of my install
disc in an impromtu Goblin (ie: teenagers) CD frizbee fight! (Last copy in either
close WM.)

Thanks again

Dudescifi

 

just a heads-up,
I posted a topic on www.twcenter.net regarding this issue, 35 people have viewed it so far.
I will post on rome total realism when their forums get back online, hopefully more people will see it there.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to post in all game forums we are in. Just to get some publicity on this cause.
How about the forums of Atari? What if we started a topic there?

 

Agetian [on this board] should be asked and be given time to respond, first and before, any posts are made on other boards.

 

Don't want to be a downer, but with D&D being a continually licensed franchise, I doubt it's even legal for them to release tools, based on copyrighted rules, which will be used to generate D&D content.

Whether it's for profit or not is beside the point. Atari would be facilitating the generation of D&D content which would compete with that of other licensees. It might even be part of their licensing agreement not to do this.