White Wolf and CCp to merge

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Reykjavik, Iceland and Atlanta, GA, USA – November 11, 2006 - CCP hf. and White Wolf Publishing, Inc. today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement to merge. The creators of the single largest persistent online role-playing world and the world's second-largest developer of offline role-playing, strategy and collectable card games will create the industry's largest independent Virtual World developer. CCP is the publisher and developer of EVE Online, the world's largest virtual gaming universe. White Wolf is the creator of some of the world's most recognized role-playing titles including: World of Darkness (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage) and Exalted. The combined company will introduce new online and offline gaming products across the science-fiction, horror, and fantasy genres.

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I can only imagine deep space corporations having trouble staying firm on their Equal Opportunity Policies when vampires start harassing colleagues and Werewolf attacks become a growing issue.

Really, who knows what the hell this merger will mean. I look forward to seeing what fruit the conjoined twins produce.

It is indeed interesting. We will have to wait and see how things turn out.

I have a feeling it may end up like this though:

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We'll get an EVE tabletop RPG, and CCG. They'll be supported for a couple of years, and then abandoned due to poor sales.

In a few months, we'll get an announcement *with screen shots* about a "World of Darkness" online MMORPG game. They'll never specify a release date, and over the next couple of years, we'll hear less and less about it, until it is finally quietly canceled. At that point, the companies will split up again.