It’s always “interesting times” along the Onyx Path! It has not been easy to essentially raise the WW game lines from torpor or stasis or what have you, and all of our far-flung pool of massively talented creators deeply appreciate your support.Īnd please, if you are posting or tweeting at the guys at Paradox, let’s try and make their first exposure to our community be an awesome one so they really grasp both how passionate and how supportive we can be. It is truly heartwarming and gratifying to see our community come together like that about our work.
So, I don’t really know Paradox or the new White Wolf Publishing’s head guy Tobias. The two corporate entities had to negotiate without outside voices confusing the process. As licensees, we had no official word that anything was actually happening except that some things were happening. Well first off, understand that the negotiations were completely black-boxed. Yeah, but what does this mean to Onyx Path? For that alone, it looks like some great times for WW fans. They have announced some big plans and there are hints of WoD computer games already in the planning stages. So holding onto WW when they could get it into the loving hands of a company that would actively develop projects for cWoD or nWoD or Exalted made more sense.Įnter Paradox Interactive, a Swedish computer game company. For some time, they have been in negotiations with CCP to purchase WW and all of its remaining IPs and wrapped up the deal last week. I think there will always be a lot of love for WW at CCP, but they were trying to refocus on EVE. CCP renewed their focus on the EVE MMO and once the announcement over cancelling the WoD MMO was made they pretty quickly got offers from other companies for the WW IPs (Intellectual Properties, which would mean the games/settings as well as WW as a brand). CCP retained approvals of all projects we would create for their IPs, and we’ve been rolling along OK for several years.ĭespite a valiant effort by all involved, the World of Darkness MMO ultimately was stopped before it got to a stage where it could be released. Onyx Path bought outright Scion and all the Trinity games, and Scarred Lands with a partner, Nocturnal Media, run by WW founder Stew Wieck. CCP licensed Onyx Path the rights to create tabletop roleplaying games for both the classic and new Worlds of Darkness, and Exalted.
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Many former WW employees were let go by CCP in a series of layoffs, and I left to create Onyx Path Publishing (this here place). Fast Eddy Webb was truly the hero of that time for bringing energy to the efforts to release any sort of tabletop RPG projects at all.
We still maintained an RPG publishing schedule, but it was what we could manage to do while working crazy hours on the MMO. We at WW had hoped to work with the gang at CCP to move our games into the electronic gaming industry, thereby broadening the reach and appeal and earnings of our settings, and over several years almost all of WW transitioned into working on the World of Darkness MMO as part of CCP. Let’s go back a few years to the point where the original White Wolf, the company I was with and helped create, merged with the Icelandic MMO company named CCP. What does that mean? I’ll break it down and explain some of this.
The huge news being that on Thursday, Paradox Interactive bought White Wolf from CCP and started a new company called White Wolf Publishing.
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