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Last edited by ??? on Tue, Aug 28 2012, 22:37 PM, edited 7 times in total.

Now's a great time to get your real life friends onto Amia to beef up the community!

Lets face it.. The reason there is so many of us playing this decade old game is because there is no other good games out there

Diablo III is pants we all know it! Its dreadful.. Im certain if we started to introduce Amia to our more nerdy friends they will love to get stuck in and play.. I just looked at eight pages of depression on "What Happened To Amia?" The server I used to play on is dead since nobody ever plays anymore and they all left

Amia is currently my last nerdy outlet and we shouldn't let it die! I refuse to socialize with people in the outside world!

Lets all make a big push to bring our friends onto the server and perhaps even spread the word about Amia on some other RP forums

The most user-friendly way to install NwN is to buy it off GoG for $10, They will give you a nice installation file and your all good to go. You will have to specially contact them if you want them to Generate you some keys mind. If you have the money and your feeling lazy GoG is the way to go.. But if you need to get lets say eight friends hooked In that can get a little expensive!
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/neverwinter_nights_diamond_edition

Did you already purchase Neverwinter Nights and you just lost your CD keys or installation disk? This is a bit more of a technical guide on how to reinstall Neverwinter Nights
Source, Layo Fourms
http://pastebay.net/1072503

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I just put two of my friends from Guildwars on this page and they both just created accounts on Amia. If they stay or not would be up-to the community and how great your roleplay is and how friendly you guys are!

If we can get ten more new faces around I will happily donate 20 bucks to Amia

Would it be against some type of copyright license to post this in the 'Varia' Forums and/or link it via the homepage? (The www.amiaworld.net startpage. With a little note saying; "Dont have NWN? Download it here! ->)

I have no idea! But I like the idea of it..
We should send Bioware an e-mail explaining that's what we intend todo and would we be able to use it personally and not for resale and see what they say.

To be honest I'm sure they wouldn't mind / care

I doubt bioware would even respond since they no longer care about nwn.

They really don't XD.. Master server gone and everything..
But no response to me is the same thing as permission!.. But lots of sites are offering NwN downloads GoG being one of them and they hold no more resale rights then we would In a legal sense

Bioware may not care, but if EA catches wind, they'll pressure Bioware to sue, just because they can.

jimbono1 wrote:

Bioware may not care, but if EA catches wind, they'll pressure Bioware to sue, just because they can.

And you have to think about other countries, like Amerikka. I'm not sure what the laws on a game like NWN are, but I can only assume they are

As much as it's a neat idea, I think pointing new prospective players towards GoG is a far better plan. It's what, $10? That's not really a big deal and in return there's no question about the legality of it, no matter where the person is.

I'll admit that I'm a bit uncomfortable "supporting" a torrent method in such an open fashion like this, though I suppose ultimately that's up to Disco.

In any case you are torrenting copyrighted material, and by definition of torrenting you are also distributing it to others. This is still publicly commercially available via GoG at the below address and it has not been released into the public domain.

In short the above steps are illegal.

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/neverwinter ... nd_edition

You are also putting yourself at risk running someone else's code and keygen.

Also by buying the game you're sending a subtle nod to the industry saying "Hey, we like this stuff, we're still playing it" and that sort of thing gets taken into account when folks start looking for new games to develop, and you're supporting GoG's DRM free distributions of abandonedware that would otherwise be difficult and/or illegal to maintain.

As a complete aside, it's not EA you have to worry about for Bioware, it's Hasbro who owns the distribution rights if I recall.

Really the legality of is this against the law really falls under where you are.. Where I am right now its perfectly legal and acceptable.. I mean why would I go and buy it when I can quite quickly and legally get it for free!

I think torrenting has a bad name for itself after so much media slander and everyone being told torrenting funds terrorism '_'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxO6CZptck&feature=fvwrel

While I would quite rightly agree GoG is a good option for some people.. Its not always a good suiting option for others! For example some of the younger members probably don't even have access to an online credit card to buy it!

I personally think that people should be given the option.. While I wouldn't really think sticking this on the front page would send the right message I think its good that players have easy access to this information

And finally! Even if your not intending to hook up others onto the game I know more then one person who has lost their neverwinter nights from their harddrive and since they didn't want to goto the hassle of buying it all over again they quit!
If we check the forums I'm certain we will find 20+ posts from old players saying that they have lost their cdkeys + / or installation disks and they want to get back into the community, when they are directed to GoG the prospect of buying it all over again can be very off putting.. I strongly feel that they should be given both options

Sorry, please remove the torrent stuff from your posts. This forum is accessible to everybody, including Googlebot. I don't want to get the copyright cops on my back. Just point to those forums you mentioned, but leave it up to players to figure out the rest.

Just throwing up my hand, my two characters at the moment are Haerward (ECL 16) and Sheol (ECL 5) who are both willing to play around and RP with newbies. Will soon be creating a drow female. Soon.

Someone make a facebook page under D&D section in Facebook or something like that?

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Edit: HAha, I don't know how to read.

I got a friend to buy a copy of nwn almost 2 years ago. But ADHD is strong in that one.

TheCortroy wrote:

Someone make a facebook page under D&D section in Facebook or something like that?

Also - Expanding on this idea, has anybody ever thought of creating a facebook group for Amia and Amia players? Maybe as a means of advertising, and keeping the community together and informed?

Zamtrack wrote:

TheCortroy wrote:

Someone make a facebook page under D&D section in Facebook or something like that?

Also - Expanding on this idea, has anybody ever thought of creating a facebook group for Amia and Amia players? Maybe as a means of advertising, and keeping the community together and informed?

http://www.facebook.com/groups/134016723378898/

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