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===Closure and legacy=== When SSI and TSR announced in 1994 that the latter would not renew the former's ''AD&D'' license, the two companies described the end of the relationship as amicable. A SSI spokesperson said that the company disliked the license's restrictions.<ref name="cgw199404">{{Cite magazine | date=April 1994 | title=SSI Advances Beyond AD&D With Divorce From TSR | department=Read.Me | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=117 | magazine=Computer Gaming World | pages=12}}</ref> With the Gold Box engine's sales finally fading after a six-year run, the losses SSI absorbed during those two years of delays played a critical role in the sale of SSI to [[Mindscape (software publisher)|Mindscape]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |first=Joel |last=Billings |title=Joel Billings' Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) papers |page=2 |publisher=The National Museum of Play |date=January 2014 |url=http://www.museumofplay.org/sites/default/files/uploads/Finding%20Aid%20to%20Joel%20Billings%27%20Strategic%20Simulations%2C%20Inc.%20%28SSI%29%20papers_052115.pdf |access-date=2018-08-11 |archive-date=2016-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418121002/http://www.museumofplay.org/sites/default/files/uploads/Finding%20Aid%20to%20Joel%20Billings%27%20Strategic%20Simulations%2C%20Inc.%20%28SSI%29%20papers_052115.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="DnD" />{{Rp|271β279}} Although the interest in the series eventually waned, the mantle of this genre was later assumed by more recent role-playing games such as ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'', ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' and ''[[Neverwinter Nights (2002 video game)|Neverwinter Nights]]''.{{r|allen1}}
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