Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

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Grabbit Allworth

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Owlcat is hardly "killing it". They develop games in a nearly dead genre with minimal competition. To their credit they use their much smaller budget very efficiently but who knows how badly BG3 will have warped player expectations going forward.
Owlcat is definitely killing it for those of us that absolutely love Iso-rpg's.

I just hope they steer clear of any more woke virus. They're already infected, but a lot of that had to do with compromised source material and influence from Paizo.
 

mkopec

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Both Pathfinders sold over a million each so while not GTA or COD numbers, its nothing to scoff at either for a niche genre as this and a small Russian studio. Im sure BG3 will lead more people to these types of games too in the future.
 

Gavinmad

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Huh, all this time I had assumed they were just some dirty Cypriots but Shpilchevskiy and Mishulin definitely aren't Greek names.

Anyway I'm not trying to be unfair to Owlcat, WotR is definitely one of my favorite games of all time regardless of genre. But all three of their big games have been trainwrecks on release and if they had any real competition I don't know that I'd have ever given Kingmaker a try in the first place. That 'million copies' sold also means a lot less when a significant chunk of your playerbase doesn't pay full price for your game.