I'd like to know where the lore hole named 'Arhu' sits in on this story. Since he was part of D:OS which happened thousands of years ago, and he's part of Divine Divinity, he's bound to be part of D:OS 2 as well. How did he make it from D:OS to D:OS 2? That's a long time (which obviously wasn't explained in Divine Divinity).
He's got 9 lives
EDIT:
I also call hogwash on above's post.
EDIT2:
Also the hatred for MP has nothing, again, NOTHING at all to do with 'consolidation'. It has to do with pulling away resources from SP to create a crappy MP to shoehorn in. Worst offender: Mass Effect 3. And D:OS is obviously also proof that you can't simply make a MP-game SP; a LOT of people had/have serious issues with things like the split-personality discussions with yourself or doing the RPS-minigame for SP. It really depended on how well you could put yourself over that, or, like me, you even liked having 2 people to merge to your own will (now if only choices didn't alter stats, but that's another discussion).
As already stated upon, D:OS2 will also *heavily* do this with it's PvP and potential DM-modes. That's not something you want money and time wasted to if you're backing a single-player centred game.
