Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) General "Beyond Divinity"?... hmmm

Why do Larian games tend to change names? I mean Divinity: Sword Of Lies was renamed to Divine Divinity (bleah!) and now this:

Beyond Divinity?

I mean: I always thought the developpers had the right to names, no?

What the [nocando]!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

WTF is Beyond Divinity <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/question.gif" alt="" /> There is a focus group somewhere that seriously needs to be slapped about the head.

How about,

Beyond Divinity: Rift Of The Divine.

They are talking about Riftrunner, right?

Beyond Divinity: Servant of the Divine <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Beyond Divinity and Beyond..... Up, Up and Awayyyyyyyy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Hip games for kids...... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Divination <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Didn't someone suggest Ancient Rifts before?

Divination: Prophecy of the Divine <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

I really hope the name change isn't true...

not again <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

What is hipgames.com ? A web site about games or a editor ? In which country is it ?
Maybe "Beyond Divinity" is a mistake or a joke or a real change of the name of RRR.
Editors could think it is better for selling games that "Divinity" appears in the name of game.
To show to the people that this new game takes place in the Divinity Universe.

I don't like this name too and i hope it is a mistake or a joke.

@DEATHATTHEDOOR
It is very nice to see you back in this forum, even if it is only for one post.
I missed you.

It's the publisher of <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/riftrunner.gif" alt="" />.

publisher

By the way, hipgames offers many new <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/riftrunner.gif" alt="" /> shots, but pretty low-res. Here for example the new map screen.

Hi Nemisis
For which country hipgames is the publisher of RR.
For France and Germany it is Ubi Soft, for England it is Digital Jesters.
I hope Lynn, Marian or any Larian people will say something about this name.
It is very confusing
Barta <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Edit :
Thanks Morbo i dit not know it was the publisher for North America.

For North America.

Mmh, not again <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
It's not as bad as Divine Divinity but stil ...

Actually, I think it is worse. Divine Divinity is repetitively redundant, but at least it sort of goes together. Beyond Divinity reeks of a focus group charged with keeping the brand recognition of the first game, but needing to imply it is better. 'Beyond' conjures up images of melodramatic cartoons and over-acted movies. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" />

Deathatthedoor!

I really hope that you choose to stay with us, there are to many members who have left... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" />

Concerning "Beyond Divinity" as the name I think it won´t be a good Idea if they change the game name now. There are really a lot of sites that announced Riftrunner. It is to late to change the name by far.

But I´m quite sure that most publishers will knw that... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I agree with Raze. Beyond Divinity is amongst the cheesiest names I could Imagine. It's like calling Planescape "Beyond Baldur's Gate".
Also, didn't Lar say, that no one would be going to mess with the name this time? I don't think he'll like that.