Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need"
Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need"
Hasbro's already working on another "really, really cool D&D game"
We just want good complete micro transactionless games
Edit: that are also well optimized
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...did they think people wanted bad d&d games? Of course people want great games of their favorite hobby, what does this even mean
If I read between the lines I hear " We are going to try to milk this new cash cow"
I thought it was like: we found out it can be profitable to take the time to make a high quality product. At least when Larian is doing it.
I really hope you're right
Also be fine if Larian just goes with Pathfinder or their own IP next time. Hasbro can fuck right off.
Agreed, I hope they will make Divinity: Original Sin 3 next!
I read it this way as well. Even if I didn't trust Larian as a company (I do), it's pretty clear that taking the time to make a high quality product worked out really well for them.
Considering there were rumored to be several games in the pipeline that all got scrapped at the beginning of last year, I think you're right. Dark Alliance didn't do great so I'm sure the execs freaked out.
Hopefully you're right about the message they received.
I am shocked to hear that an unfinished game didn't do great
What are you talking about? Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance was a whole ass game. It got kind of shitty reviews (currently sitting at 50% on Steam, 4/10 on IGN, 53% on metacritic). Published June 21, 2021.
Releasing a game with obvious bugs is releasing an unfinished game in my books
I get that you believe that and it's a cute hill to die on, but that does not change the fact that a D&D video game did poorly and subsequently Hasbro shit canned a bunch of stuff. Larian got a pass because their shit was already in early access.
I mean Lego finally came out with an official DnD Lego set that looks awesome.
I know others have used Legos as minis and battlemaps, but I think it's cool that they're officially acknowledging it.
Lmao I honestly so hard at this, but honestly they were probably thinking "what's the lowest fucking bar we have here?" And instead this success told them that a little more investment might actually have better returns