What Happended?

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#1

parasite

Mar 02, 2005 12:06:33
um yeah like its says on the box... what happended to Planescape?

I have only played the pc game (Torment) best game ever... now i see no more setting which means... no more pc games set in Planescape

WHY!!!!!

-thank you for reading i shall now go off and wander aimlessly-
#2

ripvanwormer

Mar 02, 2005 12:21:41
um yeah like its says on the box... what happended to Planescape?

I have only played the pc game (Torment) best game ever... now i see no more setting which means... no more pc games set in Planescape

WHY!!!!!

-thank you for reading i shall now go off and wander aimlessly-

Planescape's sales dropped. Management made the decision to fold it into the core product line. The same products that were previously slated to be Planescape things (Warriors of Heaven, Vortex of Madness) sold a lot better as core products than they would have with the Planescape label. Management took this as a sign that they had made the right decision. 3e came along and all product lines were folded into core except Forgotten Realms. And that's how the Planar Handbook came to be. Even the next Eberron book (Races of Eberron) is marketed as a core product.

Anyway, all of this is irrelevant to Planescape's status as a PC game line. If Torment had sold really well there would have been two or three sequels by now regardless of how the tabletop line was doing. Apparently it didn't. I blame the ugly cover, which didn't accurately represent what the game was like at all.
#3

parasite

Mar 02, 2005 14:42:57
Thank You for the info

seems FR is the only setting selling well... which is good... i like FR but i LOVE PS

hmm have to wait until i find some very nice ppl to make it and combine into Neverwinter nights. or am i dreaming an impossible dream?
#4

bob_the_efreet

Mar 02, 2005 17:09:37
Do you mean the City of Doors Initiative? http://www.city-of-doors.com/
#5

ripvanwormer

Mar 02, 2005 17:11:19
hmm have to wait until i find some very nice ppl to make it and combine into Neverwinter nights. or am i dreaming an impossible dream?

You know about city-of-doors.com, right?
#6

parasite

Mar 03, 2005 4:12:50
Thank you guys for the info!

nope did not know about that city of doors website (cool)

um but what does this mean if they are bringing out NWN2? maybe we can convince them to add some PS into the game? or at least add in some models for PS creatures...
#7

zombiegleemax

Mar 13, 2005 0:56:07
Meh, they have barely added Planescape to D&D books on the Planes, I doubt that they would do so in a limited video game.
#8

zombiegleemax

Mar 13, 2005 14:04:52
Well, one of the new FR games "Demon Stone" will include Ygorl, Slaaaaaad lord of er... madness, or entropy, or... something.
#9

hiryuu

Mar 13, 2005 16:57:30
Well, one of the new FR games "Demon Stone" will include Ygorl, Slaaaaaad lord of er... madness, or entropy, or... something.

Not to mention by stealing Planescape's graphic design philosophy, as well.
#10

ygorl_dup

Mar 13, 2005 17:03:48
Ygorl, Slaaaaaad lord of er... madness, or entropy, or... something.

I can never remember either.
#11

sildatorak

Mar 13, 2005 19:10:10
I think it is just safest to say that ygorl is the lord of mantropy.