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Huhn:
Statement von OPP kam gerade per Newsletter *les*

Nin:
http://theonyxpath.com/a-pair-of-ducks-bought-white-wolf-monday-meeting-notes/

--- Zitat ---Not a pair of ducks; Paradox.

The huge news being that on Thursday, Paradox Interactive bought White Wolf from CCP and started a new company called White Wolf Publishing.

So.

What does that mean? I’ll break it down and explain some of this.

Let’s go back a few years to the point where the original White Wolf, the company I was with and helped create, merged with the Icelandic MMO company named CCP.  We at WW had hoped to work with the gang at CCP to move our games into the electronic gaming industry, thereby broadening the reach and appeal and earnings of our settings, and over several years almost all of WW transitioned into working on the World of Darkness MMO as part of CCP.

We still maintained an RPG publishing schedule, but it was what we could manage to do while working crazy hours on the MMO. Fast Eddy Webb was truly the hero of that time for bringing energy to the efforts to release any sort of tabletop RPG projects at all.

Then, things started to get less rosy. Many former WW employees were let go by CCP in a series of layoffs, and I left to create Onyx Path Publishing (this here place). CCP licensed Onyx Path the rights to create tabletop roleplaying games for both the classic and new Worlds of Darkness, and Exalted. Onyx Path bought outright Scion and all the Trinity games, and Scarred Lands with a partner, Nocturnal Media, run by WW founder Stew Wieck. CCP retained approvals of all projects we would create for their IPs, and we’ve been rolling along OK for several years.

Despite a valiant effort by all involved, the World of Darkness MMO ultimately was stopped before it got to a stage where it could be released. CCP renewed their focus on the EVE MMO and once the announcement over cancelling the WoD MMO was made they pretty quickly got offers from other companies for the WW IPs (Intellectual Properties, which would mean the games/settings as well as WW as a brand).

I think there will always be a lot of love for WW at CCP, but they were trying to refocus on EVE. So holding onto WW when they could get it into the loving hands of a company that would actively develop projects for cWoD or nWoD or Exalted made more sense.

Enter Paradox Interactive, a Swedish computer game company. For some time, they have been in negotiations with CCP to purchase WW and all of its remaining IPs and wrapped up the deal last week. They have announced some big plans and there are hints of WoD computer games already in the planning stages. For that alone, it looks like some great times for WW fans. Really thrilling news!

Yeah, but what does this mean to Onyx Path?

Well first off, understand that the negotiations were completely black-boxed. As licensees, we had no official word that anything was actually happening except that some things were happening. The two corporate entities had to negotiate without outside voices confusing the process.

So, I don’t really know Paradox or the new White Wolf Publishing’s head guy Tobias. I do know Martin, who will be their Lead Storyteller (Creative Director), and he was a great guy to get to know years ago. If you look at the collage on our website here, that’s Martin as the brooding Dracula.

Tobias and I will be talking in detail later this week and I certainly expect to have a better idea of their plans after that. And as always, I’ll share what I can when I can.

For now, we know these things as facts and I hope this eases a few concerns (plus, thanks to all of you who were concerned!):

    Onyx Path Publishing is a wholly independent company that is not owned and has never been owned by the original or new White Wolf, CCP, or Paradox Interactive.
    Therefore, Scion 2nd Edition, the Trinity Continuum, Scarred Lands, Cavaliers of Mars, and Pugmire are not affected by the Paradox buyout of WW.
    Paradox has been nothing but friendly in their communications with us so far.
    Right now, it is business as usual for us.

 

As I mentioned above, thanks again to all of you who have posted so many positive accolades for what Onyx Path has created for cWoD, nWoD, and Exalted!

It is truly heartwarming and gratifying to see our community come together like that about our work. It has not been easy to essentially raise the WW game lines from torpor or stasis or what have you, and all of our far-flung pool of massively talented creators deeply appreciate your support.

And please, if you are posting or tweeting at the guys at Paradox, let’s try and make their first exposure to our community be an awesome one so they really grasp both how passionate and how supportive we can be.

It’s always “interesting times” along the Onyx Path!
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Huhn:
Naja. Hauptsache Pugmire gehts gut, ne?  :'(

Nin:
Der gute RichT ist schon ein Sonnenschein, dass der das so nett formuliert und andere motiviert positiv und höflich zu sein.
Respekt, ich könnte das nicht.


--- Zitat --- richt
November 2, 2015 at 5:36 pm
Basically, there are too many “maybes” involved to answer the question until I talk with them. Meanwhile we continue to work on all of our projects in progress.
--- Ende Zitat ---
... bedeutet wohl, dass PI noch nicht mit OPP gesprochen haben.

Huhn:
Klingt so, als haben sie vom Paradox ne freundliche Mail mit der Info der Übernahme bekommen und seither erstmal nix mehr. Ums mal positiv zu sehen: Es kam auch nicht sofort der Entzug sämtlicher Rechte und offenbar dürfen sie auch erstmal normal weiterarbeiten. Entgegen Nins Befürchtung scheint auch dieser aktuelle Werewolf-Kickstarter noch Stretchgoals zu bekommen.
Das wird sich schon alles einrenken. :)

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