Beamdog tried and failed before Larian got the opportunity
Baldur's Gate 3 from the OG devs didn't happen despite years of trying because the money people thought "It's a single-player RPG, it's not going to do that big in numbers"
6 days ago by Agent_Karyo to c/baldurs_gate_3
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BrianTheeBiscuiteer 4 points 6 days ago
After the kick ass job they did with BG3 I'm pretty much guaranteed to buy their next release. It was the best marketing campaign they could hope for.
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Those companies are right, and this is exactly why Larian passed on DLC for BG3 and moved straight to Divinity. Why pay out a cut when you're riding high and can work on a game where you don't have to? Narrowing your margins like that is the kind of thing that can sink a studio.
It's also an especially tough ask in a style of game where a given player isn't going to see the majority of the content in the game because everything's branched out. I hope people appreciate BG3 for the rare bird it is, because studios are rarely insane enough to take the kind of swing Larian did on it.
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