Paradox has bought White Wolf, plans on giving "some fresh blood" to the WoD/Vampire IPs

Stompa · Oct 29, 2015

Please not Vampire again. Other lines don't get enough love.

Jimmious · Oct 29, 2015

Stompa said:
Please not Vampire again. Other lines don't get enough love.

Yeah enough with the TWO whole games about WW Vampires in the last 30 years, we need mages and werewolves :roll:

animlboogy · Oct 29, 2015

Stompa said:
Please not Vampire again. Other lines don't get enough love.

Hunter got games. Some people even liked them for some reason.

getter77 · Oct 29, 2015

Vampire, Exalted---there are no wrong options they are likely to take all things considered.

I mean, imagine if somebody competent made a deal with the devil and somehow managed to get the rights to D&D comparable to this? Now is the greatest age yet to adapt P&P Tabletop properties for cRPGs and the like---period. The tech is there, the audience is there, KS is a thing, the deals just need to get made.

Stompa · Oct 29, 2015

Jimmious said:
Yeah enough with the TWO whole games about WW Vampires in the last 30 years, we need mages and werewolves

More like 15 years. Vamps aren't even the best line in WoD, regardless of whether we're talking about old or new. Old Mages, both Changelings, Geist, Prometheans - that's where it's at. I'd rather they not go for the vanilla ice cream of WoD again.

pippin · Oct 29, 2015

Sadly I don't think we'd get another game as edgy and or sexy as Bloodlines was back in the day. This is fucking important because half of the atmosphere was based on that.
Bloodlines, however, wasn't really a sequel to Redemption. They might work their own stuff in this new game. Who knows. I'm just wary at best.

Jimmious · Oct 29, 2015

Stompa said:
More like 15 years. Vamps aren't even the best line in WoD, regardless of whether we're talking about old or new. Old Mages, both Changelings, Geist, Prometheans - that's where it's at. I'd rather they not go for the vanilla ice cream of WoD again.

I'm not saying youre wrong I'm just saying that anything from WW is welcome, I won't become picky....yet

Havoc · Oct 29, 2015

Jimmious said:
Yeah enough with the TWO whole games about WW Vampires in the last 30 years, we need mages and werewolves

And mage is undoable, unless you go only premade spells, which kills the soul of the game.

Reinhardt · Oct 29, 2015

Werewolves!

Xor · Oct 29, 2015

This is probably the best thing that could've happened to the WoD license as far as video games go. And it means I might actually get to see that Mage the Ascension RPG I've always wanted.

Athelas · Oct 29, 2015

One of the best things that could have happened to RPG's...

...even though historically, most video games based on the White Wolf franchise have not been RPG's. Or particularly good, for that matter.

LESS T_T · Oct 29, 2015

More comments from Sjögren, the new CEO:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-10-29-paradox-interactive-buys-white-wolf-publishing

In a note to GamesIndustry.biz he added, "We believe that part of being a good steward of these IPs is to pursue the opportunities that are the best fit for the brands themselves and not shoehorn them into video games. Setting up White Wolf Publishing to operate as its own entity makes that a lot easier for us."

http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/29/p...the-masquerade-publisher-white-wolf-from-ccp/

With this push into pen-and-paper role-playing games, Paradox and the new White Wolf first plan to provide support to the communities around World ofDarkness,which includes Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Sjögren is even off to a Vampire party in New Orleans this week to help celebrate and build ties with some of the game’s biggest fans.

“We’ve been negotiating with CCP for the last year on acquiring White Wolf Publishing and the underlying brands,” Paradox chief executive Fredrik Wester told GamesBeat. “They have sold 5.5 million books, and it’s still the second-best-selling RPG of all time behind Dungeons & Dragons. It adds a lot to Paradox portfolio.”

And this is something different for Paradox. The company typically works in history with its strategy releases that re-create ancient Europe or World War II. But with White Wolf’s properties, Paradox could reach an entirely new audience.

“We’re going to start licensing out the brand again from the beginning,” said Wester. “We’ll start with one World of Darkness. We’ll start, basically, from day one to unite the community under one flag.”

Bringing that community together was one of the things that attracted Paradox to White Wolf. Paradox very explicitly doesn’t make games “for kids,” and the audience for Vampire is now much older, and Wester’s company is used to building experiences for that more mature audience.

“We’re targeting people who are 35 or older, typically,” said Wester. “That’s what we have with World of Darkness. People who are at least 25 and older who are looking for something more gritty.”

Moving forward, the new White Wolf will begin analyzing its current deals and licensing agreements to see which ones make sense. If something is working, Sjögren said he plans to keep it around.

“But of course we’ll now be working with Paradox on this,” Sjögren told GamesBeat.

Naturally, that means new games are in the early stages of production — although Paradox was sharing many details about what those look like. But this also means that White Wolf will get help reaching out to the fans — like the ones throwing parties in New Orleans.

“Our aim is to work — just as Paradox works — close to the community,” said Wester. “We’re going to start communicating with the community. We’ll start asking questions. We feel that no one has really been paying attention to what the community has been up to in the last few years. That’s going to be an immediate change.”