[Arryn]

The Infinity engine that BG2 used is copyright from BioWare, and BioWare held the overall game's copyright.

Interplay's mismanagement of projects, and licensing disputes between Black Isle and WotC over AD&D, doomed Black Isle. And that's not even getting into issues of the internal politics and dynamics between Interplay and Black Isle.

EDIT: AFAIK, Black Isle was responsible for BG2's design (and other "high-level" issues) and BioWare was the shop that actually cranked out the code.

[ July 18, 2004, 02:30: Message edited by: Arryn ]