Larian Studios has decided not to continue the Baldur’s Gate 3 adventure, despite his enormous success and the expectations of fans, and explains the reasons.
Baldur’s Gate 3 Now belongs entirely to players and modders. After the recent outing of the huge patch 8Larian Studios considers herself satisfied with his work accomplished on the absolute Goty 2023. We already knew that the studio did not plan to develop DLC or a fourth opus. In an interview with Gamespot, his CEO Swen Vincke offers a very simple explanation on this subject, which could strengthen the sympathy capital of fans towards the happy Belgians, despite a touch of disappointment.
The commendable position of Larian Studios on Baldur’s Gate 3 and the DLC
When a studio or a publisher has a huge critical and commercial success as was Baldur’s Gate 3 in 2023 (and even even today), a common practice wants to capitalize a maximum of a promising title to ensure a certain manna of income via DLC or Suites. However, this was not the case for Larian Studios, after two years of support and eight major updates adding a lot of new products, all in a completely free way.
Asked about this decision, which is slightly counter-the-tide of Indsutria standards by Gamespot, Swen Vincke, CEO of Larian Studios, gave an answer as ingenuous as it is beneficial for the good of his developers. “” We have a time thought of being in the Business of the DLCs for Baldur’s Gate 3, but that really did not get the teams, even if we were often told that we were supposed to do it. We finally decided to do without it, because it seemed much more boring than creating something really new. Even if having happy players means a happy business, for me it takes above all happy developers to have happy players ».
This also joins the arguments put forward by Swen Vincke in his speech to Game Awards 2024 To award the title of Goty to Astro Bot As a winner of the game of the year for Baldur’s Gate 3 the previous year. He then declared that, according to him, the next games of the year will be titles developed by passionate studios, which place their creation before financial gains, and that they will follow as long as a game is made with love and the will to make it fun. Thus, Larian Studios is already working on after Baldur’s Gate 3 and is currently working on two new games obviously ” extremely ambitious ». It will therefore be necessary to be very patient before seeing the color, but we definitely monitor all of this very closely.
Source : GameSpot sur YouTube
