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Larian CEO Swen Vincke accepts Baldur's Gate 3's latest award by blasting corporate 'greed' devastating devs: 'I've been fighting with publishers my whole life, and I keep on seeing the same mistakes'

3 years ago by nanoUFO to c/games

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Vincke joins a chorus of devs lamenting the state of the industry at this year's GDC.
Kroxx 83 points 3 years ago

God I love Larian, I hope they never go public

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bionicjoey 19 points 3 years ago

Aren't they partially owned by Tencent?

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griD 15 points 3 years ago

Tencent only got preference shares AFAIK (i.e. they can't vote with them).

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echo64 -35 points 3 years ago

Yup, and that seems to be going okay for them. Maybe the guttural reaction you have to that information is misplaced.

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bionicjoey 37 points 3 years ago

What reaction? I literally just asked a question.

Edit: Also I'm not sure what you think "guttural" means, but it doesn't work the way you tried to use it here.

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DragonTypeWyvern 14 points 3 years ago

Swap the percentage of ownership and see how fast that changes.

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Shiggles 8 points 3 years ago

Maybe the fact you assumed it was specifically more negative because it was tencent says something else 🤔

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zephorah 40 points 3 years ago

You can feel the love when you play their games. I’m old. I remember Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale. Neverwinter Nights when it first hit, how big it was, how large the following was.

Playing Divinity OS was the first game in a while that had a love of RPG feels to it of yore. No surprise that they landed BG3.

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The_Picard_Maneuver 10 points 3 years ago

Divinity was also a masterpiece, in my opinion, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed BG3.

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andrew_bidlaw 5 points 3 years ago

Didn't know they also did Divinity!

Their games aren't in my style but you can tell how much passion they put into them. I'd love having Larian to revive the old RPG genre and it's level of worldbuilding. BG3-tier writing is sadly absent from many modern games.

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Conyak 25 points 3 years ago

Larian seems like a great company. This is exactly the type of game studio that we should be supporting with our money. I loved BG3 because of them, not because of the D&D licence.

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Zoidsberg 7 points 3 years ago

BLASTING

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Phegan 3 points 3 years ago

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