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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Xevy
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Gets weirder when you learn that one of the Devs died in Ukraine fighting against Russia.
Talk about your bad bosses!
Burns
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IGN interview with Sven of Larian about the Gaming industry, BG3, and game development. Many more questions in the interview, but these were the most interesting two I found. While the second question is more in line with this thread, putting the BG3 question first, since that's the order of the interview (used spoilers to keep the size of the post down):
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Baldur's Gate 3: Director Swen Vincke Answers All Our Questions About Foregoing DLC, AAA Development, and More - IGN
IGN had the pleasure of sitting down with Larian Studios head Swen Vincke at GDC to talk about...well, everything. The talk we'd just heard, the news he dropped about Baldur's Gate 3, how the studio is doing post-release, how he feels about the games industry, all of it.
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I can't help but think this is some sort of leverage play between Larian and Wizards of the Coast, but maybe not. Sven does sound like a pretty principled guy. Principled not only from a financial standpoint, but more so it seems with his creative vision.
While I wish they would continue in the D&D universe, they don't need to. I'm sure I will be playing whatever they make in the future.
While I wish they would continue in the D&D universe, they don't need to. I'm sure I will be playing whatever they make in the future.
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Wizards of the Coast team who greenlit Baldur's Gate 3 have been fired
In an unfortunate bit of news, the Wizards of the Coast team who greenlit Baldur's Gate 3 have been fired.
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Chris
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I feel like WotC greed (wants higer % of profits) and maybe micromanagement (be more woke) is why no DLC or BG4, and the Larian CEO is just exaggerating any issue they had to justify their exit in a professional way without burning bridges with WotC.
Sounds like they are finishing BG3 though? Intentionally delaying playing it as the only other game I played of theirs was DOS1 which was not finished when I played it.
Sounds like they are finishing BG3 though? Intentionally delaying playing it as the only other game I played of theirs was DOS1 which was not finished when I played it.
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I don't think/know if they have said specifically that it will be called Enhanced Edition, but they are certainly working on all the post release stuff they promised:
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Palum
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Well I think the DnD cultural moment is failing. Add to that their disaster with OGL. Add to that retraction from post COVID. We have an attention economy and these companies continue to fail to realize that trading their loyal niche nerd core customers for a brief blip on tiktok is not a long term business strategy.
The reality is they had 3 generational events and blew their chance.
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Yea makes sense. Movies, games, TV all chasing "modern audiences" which don't exist
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WOTC has made 20 years of incredibly dumb decisions and grown in spite of it, just based on the strength of the products themselves and having pretty good brand strategy in the bigger picture.
Their products cost, comparatively, nothing to make. They print money, margin wise. But they cost a LOT to market.
Their products cost, comparatively, nothing to make. They print money, margin wise. But they cost a LOT to market.
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