Re: White Wolf is out of the game
Yup.
I originally had a huge dissertation of a thing in there about the history, but couldn't find solid info about who developed what and who took over developing what at various points so ended up dropping it.
Now that you mention it, I wouldn't be surprised if part of the sale negotiations between CCP and Paradox was "No, if you want the video game you take the whole subsidiary"...and I wouldn't be surprised if spinning it down after the scandal was a value proposition thing. Cleaning up the PR mess by shutting down the in-house dev team and turning W-W into a holding company possibly took less time, effort, and maybe even layoffs than other options.
It's an "out with a whimper" for a company that used to own something like 25-30% of the RPG market, but ultimately I'm not afraid for the games themselves. Onyx Path will take good care of them, and I'm sure if Paradox ever wants to pull the plug entirely Rich will make them an offer.
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