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.
Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
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Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.
Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.
Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
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.