BeamdogTrent

First of all, Mr. Oster is way too formal, Trent will do nicely. We are interested in doing a Baldur's Gate III. We continue to pester the fine fellows at the Wizards of the Coast on a frequent basis about developing the game. To date we haven't managed to come to an agreement. The plan is to wear them down on until they just give in ;-)

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I always found it funny that we at Bioware in frigid Edmonton, Alberta, Canada did the sunny south in BG and BGII and the guys in California did the frozen North in Icewind Dale

How do you evaluate your work on BGEE - IWDEE now? Was it a success? Has it brought what you had expected? Has it generated the money to start thinking about BG V?

I think our work on BG:EE was ok. We shipped a game and it was fun to play, we had some bugs and with the 1.3 update we actually have a game I'm happy with. On BGII:EE we caved to pressure and shipped early. I F##ked up. I pushed my biz partner to ship the game when it just wasn't ready. I've been very happy with our work on the 1.3 Update for BGII:EE and when it hits I think fans will be very happy. On IWD:EE I am happy. I personally functioned mostly as an enabler, allowing talented people to do the work and just trying to unblock them or get them the resources required. In a way it felt odd, I'm a pretty hands-on guy and working so hands off was odd for me.

Planescape:Torment: Enhanced Edition, besides from having too many colons in the title, is something we are interested in working on. With that said, we have a lot of work ahead as we prepare to re-launch Baldur's Gate II:Enhanced Edition and bring it to three new platforms; Android, iPhone and Linux. We realized BGIIEE was in a bad state and was a buggy release, so going forward we've vowed to never cave to external pressure and ship a buggy game. We plan on doing the right thing, taking the time to ensure we craft a great game and release it at a high quality. This is going to mean our development efforts are going to take longer and our predictability for launch dates is going to suffer, but this is how we are going to operate our business going forward.