Welll, I can't imagine that Obsidian Entertainment (formerly Black Isle) will put the time anf effort in the NWN 2 that Bioware put into NWN.
For one thing, Bioware just invented a revolutionary new way to continue to support, upgrade and add content to NWN with their
Premium Content.
If, Obsidian decides to make NWN 2 a toolset-based game for builders and it isn't 100% backward compatable with NWN mods then they will simply be competing products. People will have to decide if they want to continue buidling new mods and maintaining old ones with onld NWN or if they want to abandon years of upgrade, content and user community contributions to start from scratch with NWN2.
My hope is that NWN 2 is simply a HUGE expansion pack for NWN that, like HotU, will add upgraded graphics as an trade for higher system requirments. That way we just have to convert our mods to NWN 2.
If Obsidian isn't going to put the effort in making this a true toolset builders game thats fully compatable with NWN, then I hope they don't include a toolset at all and simply make it a really good single/multiplayer adventure with a brand new graphics engine.
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