'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios

"Building games that are actually fun is going to make you the most money, that's it."

[PRIMORDUS]

I highly respect Larian Studios. I say fuck all the greedy shit bag shareholders, they are rich to begin with, and only want more and more who sometimes do not even know about the industry they invest in.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Good stuff other studios take notes 📝

[Christopher]

Those other companies have shareholders, so they aren't even thinking about this.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Problem is some shareholders are greedy mofos which ruins creativity imo

[shinoff2183]

Take note of how they handled the physical release to. They seen a demand for it and unlike remedy they decided to meet that demand half way. Have us pay for our pre orders it pays for itself. No money needed from the studio. More studios should do this before outright dismissing.

[The_Hooligan]

Exactly! I preorder a physical copy and the amount of stuff it comes with, really speaks to the care they have taken. I'm part of Q2 release so not sure when I'll get it, but it'll definitely be worth the wait.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

For real they're doing all the right moves.

[isarai]

God this sounds like to good ol days 😌 when the industry was ran by gamers and nerds who just wanted to make something cool.

[phoenixwing]

No wonder other companies said they couldn't replicate the standard they set. They're too busy bending over for shareholders to make a good game.

[dumahim]

I just watched a video from an environment artist who worked on Forza Motorsport and he talks about this 18/6 contractor thing that MS uses. Work for 18 months, and then you go away for 6 months. He talks about him being there for a pretty short time and his mentor in the role messages him that his contract is about up so big responsibilities are going to fall on him now. I had never heard about it, but no wonder Microsoft studio games just lack passion.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[BrainSyphoned]

Yet they had to sell 30% of themselves to Tencent. Don't go crying outloud about your purity when you had to take Chinese money to stay afloat. China doesn't censor anything though so no worries about future issues with bear sex.

[shinoff2183]

China I'm sure has some form of censorship

[The_Hooligan]

As long as it's a normal bear and not Winnie the Pooh

Edit: meant to reply @brain

[TheColbertinator]

If you had read ANYTHING about Larian's involvement with Tencent, you would know their 30% investment still does not give them any voting power or influence. The majority of the company belongs to a private investor in Europe who makes the final call not Tencent, China or anyone else.

[dumahim]

"Larian Studios does technically have a single shareholder in Tencent—which owns around 30% of the company. However, an important piece of context is that Tencent appears to own what's called a "preference" share, meaning that Tencent doesn't have voting rights when it comes to Larian's decision making. The rest of the company belongs to CEO and Founder Swen Vincke and his wife."

[Juancho51]

Quickly becoming my favorite studio. They work with passion, blood sweat and tears. They dont pander, they don’t create microtransactional nightmares, they dont release buggy broken sub par garbage, they are excellentionists, I made that word up because nothing can be perfect, but striving for excellence is the closest you get to perfection.

[XBManiac]

Reminds me CD Projekt... any real similarities?

[CantThinkOfAUsername]

Let's revisit this 10 years from now and see if it still applies. Success gets to everyone's head. Everyone.