They made a ton of Forgotten Realms and other D&D games, not to mention all the other stuff they made. Who owns the rights to all those games now? Any chance they might end up on GOG someday?

Wikipedia says Ubisoft.

I think that TSR (Now Wizards of the Coast/HASBRO) has the game rights locked down pretty heavily for the D&D stuff. Likely it would have to be an arrangement between HASBRO and UBISOFT to allow release.

It's certainly not impossible to get the stuff out. SSI was a good company.

That seems very likely. Though some game rights may have been spread around more than that.

Huh, I'd always thought they were part of Games Workshop.

Doesn't Hasbro own Atari?

Another reason to loathe Ubisoft, Great games, great publisher. In a year or two they will totally abandon the M&M series.

Hasbro sold its production and publishing arm (Hasbro Interactive) to Infogrames (now Atari) in 2001. In 2005 Hasbro bought back the digital rights from Atari.

So it was Hasbro Interactive that owned Atari. :)

It's no small wonder, that getting the rights to sell old game may be a bit complicated.

To be honest, I really think it can be done.

It's just the matter of sharing the cake between all parties. Ubisoft can't make money from SSI titles without the licence from Hasbro, and probably Atari would have to agree on such deal (I suspect they have exclusive licence). So, if they can arrange how to share the cake, I guess it would not be impossible to bring those game here, because everyone would get profits which without the deal don't exist.

The main problem might be though, that the negotiations and lawyer fees would probably cost more that the sales of the games would make :D

But you miss the real issue, which is, that the sales figures would generate such a small revenues, that when shared between each company, it really doesn't seem like forth while effort from their point of view, especially for companies their size.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see old SSI games here but I'm not holding my breath.

Yeah, plus it's really a waste, when three parties (Hasbro, Ubisoft and Atari) can make money from nothing but quick negotiations and agreement, and they don't. I know it's not something that would bring them a fortune, but still, money is money.

And that is truly sad. I hope they would at least publish their non D&D SSI games catalog for starters, if nothing else.

But for now, only way I see them doing so is, that if some one could convince them to see the historical point of view and that while they wouldn't make tons of cash they'd generate good name among gamers.