At a Game Developers Conference (GDC) panel today, Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke dropped something of a bombshell by revealing that the developer isn't planning to release any expansions or DLC for Baldur's Gate 3, nor a Baldur's Gate 4.
Instead, Vincke said at the panel, Larian plans to move away from Dungeons & Dragons entirely and do something new, leaving the IP in publisher Wizards of the Coast's hands.
With so many live-service games to choose from it can be incredibly overwhelming to decide what to play these days.
Gta from 2008 can at times have ten times the player count than suicide squad 2024.
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There is a pool of players that want to be milked bdsm style that pool is not growing as fast as the amount of players that are needed to support so many of these live service titles. The limited time crap is also a chore for alot of users like how diablo 4 forces user's to max out a character every 3 months to get the new gear.
I think GaaS proves not every game needs to be GaaS. Sony’s finding this out the hard way.
What? Live service is there to milk money. Even if BG3 had 5 mil concurrent players it still wouldn't generate any extra money, that is the point of live service and for u to not own anything. BG3 being popular will sell more copies sure but this is not the point. And this is one of the best and biggest game in recent history of course it will have good numbers, it is relatively new too. I get what you are getting at but you are kinda brute forcing your point. Kinda of a no brainer take anyway tbh
What dumb sh!t article and thinking is this that concurrent players means a thing worth talking about? It has zero influence on how much lifetime money these companies make. Bg3 sold millions of copies at 60 dollars a pop and made bank. Having a bunch of players later on revisiting the game does little to say anything other than ppl like to play it. If the numbers go down compared to a live service game it makes no difference.
Tldr: concurrent players means nothing for single player games amd this article is a waste of time on what must have been a slow news day
Rare, the developer behind pirate adventure Sea of Thieves, has introduced a dedicated dog park to its studio grounds for employees' good boys and girls.
Nice thing they did, but not actually gaming related, not sure why this article was approved. Also strange informing us what game Rare worked on, as if we don't know their legacy.
I went to look at new apartments and saw only dog parks, no kid parks. We're so screwed.
A new PlayStation Malaysia tour video shows what looks to be concept art for Bluepoint's next game.
Another shooter? Yawn. Thought the prevous concept looked more fantasy.
Looks like my dream of them remaking Metal Gear Solid is over, still cant wait to see what they are cooking up.
Though this is sad it also makes sense because of hasbro doing the mass job cuts last year remember wizard of the coast lost 1100 jobs.
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They probably wanted to do dlc but the people that worked with them are no doubt gone and hasbro might have shut the door on larian. I mean look at the wb games news with live service the suits are making so many wrong decisions.
Hopefully they got a good chunk of the profits as we do not know the extent of what hasbro gets being the ip holder of D&D.
I would like larian to do there own game now no other person's ip they made a fantastic rpg a wild west rpg next perhaps? there are timeline gaps out there.
if you have kept up with larian studios statements the past year or so you know that they have wanted to not do a game in the d and d universe. they felt too constrained by the wizards of the coasts rules. which is totally understandable. I'd rather they branch out into something else myself so as not to be typecast. Also this is just conjecture but: paying royalties for video game properties has got to suck a lot. You always hear about studios who have to pay royalties losing out big time in terms of how much money they leave on the table for the ip owners.
They should do another mainline Divinity.
Truly a once in a lifetime game
Too bad they didn't team up with Paizo instead.