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12-19-2018, 05:13 PM | #1 |
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White Wolf is out of the game
Looks like white wolf has had a bad year and so they are going to be closing down World of darkness.com This was sent out to subscribers of White Wolf's online book reader service. White Wolf will be folded into their parent company Paradox. Additionally, they are also looking for a brand manager
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12-20-2018, 02:36 AM | #2 |
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Re: White Wolf is out of the game
And I was just hoping for a rebirth of the WoD/WW in the form we knew it during the golden age thereof.
Also ironic that WW, which gained much of its street cred from writing stuff considered outrageous at the time, has also been brought down by outrage when the tables have turned. |
12-21-2018, 07:13 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: White Wolf is out of the game
Paradox? As in the computer strategy game people?
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12-21-2018, 10:32 AM | #4 |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Rural Utah
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Re: White Wolf is out of the game
Yeah, that would be them. I believe they bought WW from CCP (Eve Online), who bought WW in 2005ish.
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12-21-2018, 11:28 AM | #5 |
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Re: White Wolf is out of the game
I'd just gotten back into playing WoD games, but their adversity and fragmentation sent me exploring and I ended up here. A friend had given me a slew of GURPS books some years back, I'd never used, so maybe now's the time to give them a whirl.
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12-21-2018, 02:41 PM | #6 |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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Re: White Wolf is out of the game
By fragmentation you mean the splitting produced by the Chronicles of Darkness? What do you refer to as adversity in this context?
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01-10-2019, 10:34 AM | #7 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Oregon, WI
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Re: White Wolf is out of the game
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I did. I ran a long running GURPS Vampire campaign with my grad class and their respective boy/girlfriends, including my girlfriend-- now my wife-- who was also in the same department. Great game world to play in. Wish them the best.
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06-01-2019, 06:29 AM | #8 |
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Re: White Wolf is out of the game
It's a shame. White Wolf was my favorite publisher of the Ravenloft campaign setting after TSR opened up the license. Their Arthaus studio did a great job.
I'm a little surprised that Paradox has ownership of White Wolf now, although I suppose there's decent overlap between video gaming and tabletop hobby gaming. I have tried Victoria 2 by Paradox and, frankly, I'm not smart enough to enjoy their games. |
06-05-2019, 12:58 PM | #9 |
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Location: Lancaster, PA
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Re: White Wolf is out of the game
I don't think the games are going anywhere...betting instead that the backlash was the catalyst to finish what CCP (who owned it before Paradox) started ages ago: spinning W-W down into a holding company. I wouldn't surprise if it also means they're letting Onyx Path take over the development, rather than just doing the publishing.
Speaking of...OPP is doing well for themselves, nothing to be afraid of there. They've carved a rather solid niche for themselves, using Kickstarter for Collectors' Editions and then taking the 'standard edition' stuff print-on-demand exclusive.
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06-05-2019, 04:11 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: White Wolf is out of the game
The original reason CCP acquired WW is because they were going to make a Vampire MMO. That project eventually failed, at which point it got sold to Paradox, who I assume were also interested in the computer game rights, not the RPG rights. I suspect that shutting down WW is a sign that they aren't terribly interested in the RPG rights, but likely they'd be perfectly happy to let a third party handle the RPG rights as long as they get their cut.
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