Rumor: Atari close to announcing a Neverwinter Nights MMO

I think it's called Darkfall.

I think it's called almost every mmorpg before and after Darkfall.

The video game rights to D&D campaign settings is currently held through liscensing contracts by Atari. It just happens for years they were smart enough to have Bioware working with them (not owned by them) so Bioware made NWN1 in which Atari published.

Bioware's not made a D&D campaign setting game since NWN1.

I agree. Cryptic could produce and expand the persistent world and lore while allowing players to create their own modules using instances. It certainly would help with dealing with the dreaded endgame and the lack of content.

Some adjustments would need to be made so people don't exploit the game. For example, limit the use of magic items found in player modules to those modules created by the same player is one obvious requirement personally.

I'll hold judgment on Cryptic till I learn more. Yes I think their games are somewhat shallow but I enjoy the game mechanics and the content they do present is decent. It's just they don't have enough when they launch.

DOH! Was meant to be a reply to SpectralHunter. GET A NEW COMMENT SYSTEM MASSIVELY!

And now there's talk of player generated content for STO? It makes me believe that Cryptic is going the module route. If they make a toolset as robust as the NWN toolset, they might have something big here and it will open up the MMO world.

I know I'd be willing to pay a monthly fee to create instances in a D&D world.

@SpectralHunter

User generated content for an MMO pretty much never works.

Why?

Because people don't play each other's content. It also serves to segregate the community even further.

User generated content only works if it's done like Darkfall or EVE do it. A dynamic created by the players en masse inside the confines of a defined game world. If you allow every jackass to make their own world, who's going to visit it except maybe a few friends? Even worse, do people actually expect to pay a subscription fee to build and access their own creations? When i pay for Maya or 3DS Max i get the programs, i can build what i want and do with it what i want whenever i want, i never have to pay anything ever again to do this. The same was true for NWN. You pay for it once and you *have* it. Now people think it's fine if they don't even have control over their own creations unless they pay someone else for it?

The whole point of an MMO is, well, to be an MMO. I doubt that Cryptic even knows what the abbreviation stands for, and i hope the gross of the readers will understand the point i'm trying to make here.

Um, 38 studios already announced there mmo long ago. They're currently making a singleplayer version and then the mmo in the same world. Can't be assed to find the name because I think 38 studios is a joke ( google is your friend, however ), but it's not NWN.

It's not NWN perse, but the Forgotten Realms setting, in which Baldur's Gate resides aswell. It's (together with Dragonlance and Planescape) the de facto setting by which mainly video gamers known the DnD franchise by. Using the NWN name is probably just a marketing thing.

Forgotten Realms as a setting isn't exactly particularly interesting or noteworthy in any way that I can remember.

So if that's all it's got, I can happily avoid it like I do the vast majority of these swords and sorcery MMO's.