Amalur assets now belong to Rhode Island

I just hope if there is a KOA 2 that it is single player.

but they just had to make it pc only if it was on xbox and multiplatform then it would be game of the year

that trailer just wow if this was ever coop i would have the best time ever it would get game of the year hands down

Alamur 2, brought to you by Rhode Island Studios.

In other news, the Governor of Rhode Island declared he was going into game development. When asked why, he stated "Well, we got all this Amalur stuff just lyin' around, I figure I aught to do somethin' with it. I figure it'll be something to do when I need a break from playin' golf. Hmm, maybe I'll put golf in the game. Yeah."

if nobody buys the rights it would b a shame,it's true amalur didn't offer anything new,but it was damn good,and fun to play.plus,the world that they created for 5 years is really vast and beautiful, and it also has some depth to it.it's a lot of people's hard work,it would be a shame that all that goes to waste

oh well, now we just have to hope and pray that a decent company picks up the rights and that we can get a sequel.....

Most States have a State-bird or State-flower, Rhode Island has a State RPG.

"Nobody is buying MMOs after [Star Wars: The Old Republic fizzled]."ha... haha... ahahahahahaha!

this makes me want to buy kingdom of amalur just to help out rhode island....but then the shipped units have already been paid for, so i don't know if ea is willing to ship new units or the stores will buy it

my bet is that  EA will pay about 5 - 10 mil for it and grab a beastly profit.

well........ shit.. :(

Perhaps state governments *should* be in the business of game development.  Every state can have an office of game development.  Successful games will provide an additional revenue stream.  The states that make the best-selling games can then lower their taxes.

So the people of Rhode Island were forced to pay $75 million for an IP worth $20 million. As with all other stories from our sad era of "stimulus," he takeaway is: government - despite the best of intentions - can only destroy wealth, not create it.

I wonder if Rhode Island will make its residents work on a sequel?

I rather hope there is no IP sale, more-so a sequel.

I think it adds to the mystique of the game,

that it never should have been made in the first place.

Its like some ancient force got all those people together with stardust,

doused this game with epic myth & rpg action;

and then disbanded them after such divinity was completed.

I can't think of any games like Amalur made by them off-hand, but Konami would be a good choice to continue the Amalur story. Maybe with a MGS style story and camera (may get bad responses to that but the camera in 4 worked for me) Maybe add in the 1 thing the game needed before, like co-op. (hint hint)

Great, that means one of the environments in the game is an unlockable Rhode Island metropolis! Woot!

RI gambled on Schilling's name and pitch.

Schilling's company spent somewhere over a $100 million producing a decidedly "meh" product.  Generic gameplay, uber-generic lore/world, and flashy, eye-candy moves that attempted to cover up how easy and button-mashy the combat was.

Well there goes that game.  Being from RI and seeing how RI going downhill this game will be lost forever.

Now Rhode Island is going to create a studio and attempt to earn their money back.Sounds like a setup for a movie.

this could lead to a weird episode of family guy

Sigh, screw you Rhode Island -_-

all according to plan..

They should have just gone on Kickstarter like everyone else..

They should sell it to a US or EU company to finish up Copernicus and don't sell it to some Chinese company that'll just turn it into another generic, grind-fest MMO.

It would be interesting if the state actually did something with the IP somehow.

I thought Epic had bought the rights for Amalur?