‘Almost nobody left’ of D&D team that helped get Baldur’s Gate 3 off the ground, says Larian CEO

SharkAttak, 6 months ago

Because the best move when you have a team that gave you a Game Of The Year is to dismantle it.. GeNiUs

1rre, 6 months ago

Except Hasbro didn’t get a game of the year, “someone who licenced an insignificant property of theirs” did, and so who cares (other than everyone who made/enjoyed the game, but nobody “important” like Hasbro’s execs or stockholders)

grte, 6 months ago

Hasbro is a terribly run company which is currently in the process of butchering the couple golden geese it has.

MJBrune, 6 months ago

They are the reason wotc cancelled all those in development d&d games a year and a half ago. All wotc published games were cancelled because they’re CEO passed away and they scrambled to find a new one. This new CEO saw all these in development games and cancelled them in an attempt to save money, and with the dark alliance game released the year before, they felt there was no recouping development costs.

Overall a huge bummer. I would have liked to play an immersive sim d&d game.

ampersandrew, 6 months ago

I'd like to live in the world where multiple devs are making D&D games in Larian's engine the way there were a handful of Infinity Engine games 20 years ago. Replaying BG3 is great, but it would be nice to have new areas, characters, and calls to action while still having the freedom to just "verb a noun" the way you can in BG3.

MJBrune, 6 months ago

Larian isn’t sharing it’s engine and I feel like even if it did, a lot of studios want the creativity of building their own thing. Not just another D&D crpg top-down isometric game. A lot of the D&D games in the works were unique and took interesting risks that might have paid off.

Kaldo, 6 months ago

I doubt they would sell the engine but it would be nice if we had good modding tools and map editors like in NWN for example, custom maps and campaigns could keep bg3 alive for a long time - especially considering that they have no plans for expansions afaik

Mongostein, 6 months ago

All those games were produced by BioWare over the course of a decade. BG3 is only a couple months old.

A sequel wouldn’t take as long to develop now that they have the engine and with the success of BG3, I think we’ll get another.

ampersandrew, 6 months ago

There were a couple of games from Black Isle back then too. That's the sort of deal I'd like to see, but I also don't expect it to happen.

DeepGradientAscent, 6 months ago

they’re their CEO passed away

millie, 6 months ago

Utterly pointless comments like this make me wish I could downvote here. Surely you have something better to do?

Nighed, 6 months ago

Get a client (or instance) that allows it then 🙂

princessnorah, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I think they were implying they like their instance but wish they could downvote sometimes. My instance doesn’t allow it either, and coming from more than a decade on Reddit, it can be frustrating at times. Still, I wouldn’t leave Blahaj because my interests align with those of the instance’s owners.

DeepGradientAscent, 6 months ago

Surely you have something better to do?

At the time, no. However, sometimes I complain about people who complain.

nutlink, 6 months ago

As a not native English speaker, I appreciate that comment. It helps me understand the previous comment better.

TommySalami, 6 months ago

This, the OGL, the Pinkerton incident, the continued decline in quality products. Talk about squandering the opportunity of a lifetime with the renaissance of D&D.

Daxtron2, 6 months ago

Yeah, had a friend who was an intern project manager at Hasbro and I’ve only heard bad things about them.