NWN premium modules earn one last gasp

Sweet! Price is a little steep, but BioWare has yet to disappoint. They'll probably have a sale for the holidays like they did last year and bundle the modules together for a reduced price.

If Atari finally bites the big one, Bioware and NWN2 aren't hosed, are they?

If Atari does go down, I would hope that BioWare/Pandemic would buy the rights to D&D. BioWare and Obsidian is where the franchise belongs.

Elemental Evil, Demon Stone, D&D Heroes, Dragonshard, and DDO have all underperformed. The only Atari D&D game to do well is the one BioWare made. Otherwise, Atari has been bad for the franchise.

Black Isle forever!

I don't think a company like Bioware is going anywhere soon. I'm sure another publishing company would pick them up in a New York Minute.

I will be probably be purchasing this expansion pack this weekend, although I agree that 11.99 for an expansion pack seems a little high. I was disappointed with Infinite Dungeons, but Pirates of the Sword Coast was kinda fun. Still waiting with bated breath for NWN2, though.

Without judging the value of the cited horse armor, the comparision is unfair and evokes a wrong image of what you get for your $11.99 (certainly not a new texture and a defense buff...)

The Wyvern Crown of Cormyr is the most expansive premium module we have published so far, in fact, calling it a module is kind of an understatement:

It features 18-20 hours of singleplayer story, is made from nearly 100% unique, new art, adds horses, mounted combat, jousting, a new prestige class and a variety of other new features to the game and comes, uncompressed at a size of more than 700MB, coming close to the size of the official expansion packs to the game.

I think the $11.99 price point is entirely justified and people will find that they get plenty of value for their hard earned cash; A look at the credits for the module gives a good insight into the production cost.

Clearly the DLA team (http://www.dladaventures.com) deserves most of the kudos for this Premium module - they put countless manhours into this project and the result speaks for itself.

However, without approval from Atari and the other involved parties (Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast) this module would never have seen the light of day.

regards
Georg Zoeller
Senior Technical Designer
BioWare Edmonton

Correct URL is: http://www.dladventures.com/

Georg Zoeller,
I believe the horse armor comment was meant only as a joke, not as an attack on the module.
If it was meant as an insult, it was more likely intended as a stab against Atari, due to their financial troubles.
Bioware is generally trusted as a company that produces quality, not cheap 'horse armor' level material.

On a side note, love your work.
~John G.