CCP Games has apparently sold White Wolf and all of its properties — including World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade — to Paradox, a publisher based in Sweden. Paradox VP Shams Jorjani broke the news on the Twitters:
We've been huge fans of the white wolf IPs for a long time especially World of Darkness/Vampire. Gonna be great to give it some fresh blood.
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) October 29, 2015
CCP began work on the then-much-anticipated World of Darkness, a VTM-themed hardcore sandbox, after it acquired White Wolf in 2006, with the game reportedly reaching alpha three times during its troubled development. But CCP canceled the game and laid of a large portion of its Atlanta studio in April of 2014. At the time, it had not publicly decided what to do with the IP. Now we know.
We’ve reached out to CCP to inquire about the fate of World of Darkness’ code and assets and will update if and when we learn more. See below for updates.
@RichStanton it includes everything.
— Shams Jorjani (@ShamsJorjani) October 29, 2015
CCP has told Massively OP directly that Hilmar Pétursson’s remarks above are the extent of the company’s current position and would not elaborate.
@EVE_Rhavas No people impacts.
— CCP Manifest (@CCP_Manifest) October 29, 2015
So it seems like something was bought by @PdxInteractive and people want us to look into making a game? Hmmm…
— Obsidian (@Obsidian) October 29, 2015
DemonicPossession DanielReasor It’s old, it’s buggy, it _needs_ the fan patches. In short it has more than a few problems and yet I love it. It’s got atmosphere out the wazoo. The haunted hotel level is, for example, downright eerie. It really is one of the most atmospheric games I have _ever_ played. And replayed several times, in fact.
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Salem released a while ago, much expanded, full of people even with the expedition server added to the mix. It is owned by a different company since a long time too.
Silverlock Rebel Engie They pick up failed projects and abandon them. Their internal projects are taken care of though.
Rebel Engie Paradox wouldn’t have spent all that money if they didn’t already have a plan in place. Business wise I think it’s one of the smarter companies.
Vagrant Zero Rather have too many tips than too few. Don’t feel bad at all! <3
Please don’t IP-squat on it for years, like CPP did.
Wow I JUST saw this…moments after I sent a “tip” to massively about it. Dear God I feel like a putz.
Good. I still haven’t forgiven CCP for canceling project vaulderie, the unity port of VTM:B.
maybe paradox will be more open minded if they don’t do touch bloodlines as well.
Thank god those losers at ccp cant mess this up anymore than they already have.
Thank God maybe we will finally get some decent Whitewolf IP games out of this…i will take another Vampire the MasQ games please and it doesn’t have to be a MMO ! I wil take anything at this point…><