Baldur’s Gate 3 director says his studio isn’t interested in making DLC because ‘it’s boring’
Baldur’s Gate 3 director says his studio isn’t interested in making DLC because ‘it’s boring’
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This is old news
IMO DLC is massively overrated, even when it’s included in a game if the year edition I never get past the first hour
I don’t blame them, they are the studio that not only made the game. They gave us 8 massive patches that added all kinds of new things, fixes, and expanded on systems. In today’s day and age this is going way above and beyond for fans no other company would support a game like Baldur’s gate this long. They need to get to work on their next project with their entire team.
Gaming press seems to be hanging off of their every word after BG3 released.
I wish for the trend of eternally developing the same game dies ASAP. I would prefer that devs start to make more games while leaving previous, highly successful ones alone.
BG3 seems to be at a perfect spot, let it rest, move on to new projects.
Got up on his high horse pretty quick.
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It’s my turn to this post tomorrow
I would have to agree. If you have an insanely creative and talented group of core devs, writers, artists, animators, and everything else that goes into making a world-class game like BG3, spending 7 years on a single game is more than long enough.
Talent like that wants to break new ground, explore new ideas, develop their own worlds. They don’t want to continue to rehash what they’ve already done. That’s is good for Larian and it should be a net positive for whatever studio gets the IP next because they’ll get a chance to put their stamp on the world.
Then make 4 instead
Do we have to make a thread everytime this guy speaks jesus
DLC isn’t inherently a bad thing.
Why we assume they are bad though is because we know for a fact that certain developpers take a chunk of their game’s story and then sell it to us afterwards as an additional content.
There are many cases of good DLCs. Take War of the Chosen for Xcom 2. That DLC had pretty much a brand new game worth of content.
So I feel like as long the devs are transparent about it, I really don’t have an issue with it. BD3 could be a great platform for new stories, but I do understand if they want to move on to a different project altogehter, rather than pump out new stories for the same game.
Bro made 1 good game and it went so far up his ass.
This game and the things it offered already exceeded beyond any expectation in terms of value/performance. it’s not going to be replicated nowhere near in the future so let’s just celebrate this moment and stop being fucking greedy yeah?
DLC has been why AAA shit is increasing released half cooked. Ever since the MBAs took over the gaming industry the game is released 40% complete and you’re forced to pay for the full experience through DLCs over years. Civ 7 is the latest most glaring example. It’s also why AA titles like Expedition 33 and BG3 stand out as evergreen content.
The game was in early access for years. If they really wanted to make a dlc they would just include it in the base game
The only worthwhile DLC I remember playing is Echoes of the Eye for Outer Wilds. Absolute fucking masterpiece on an already once in a lifetime game.
I just wish they would make Icewind Dale 3.
Fair enough, but as a studio, you don’t have to say this and put out funky headlines. Just be like “we feel we’ve done what we can and integrating mods hopefully allows many more years of people enjoying the game but we’d like to work on a new project”
I’ve never bought a DLC for a game if it didn’t come included and I almost never play them because it’s normally just “extra” that isn’t part of the main story.
I’d rather they start making another game than do DLC.
Kind of a misleading headline, he isn’t saying that he thinks all DLC is boring (which would be very wrong), he’s saying that it’s boring for them as a developer to create DLC and that there’s “no passion”.
Larian did this weird thing where they released a whole ass game that didn’t need add-ons.
Wild
How many times is this going to get re-uploaded?
A shame, I could think of tons of ideas, but I get that incorporating all that, takes time.
I adore BG3 but holy hell, that guy from Larian is just obnoxious.
Swen needs to get some reality check, because it’s very easy to drop from the top with one botched release. He hit jackpot with BG3 so now he thinks he can just spew out random crap.
I’d appreciate it if the studio would be interested in restocking the PS5 physical deluxe edition. It’s been OOS for months and they just can’t be bothered to make more I guess.
Just make a complete game then you dont need DLC. The you can start working on the next one.
If you open up the mods then the players will do the dlc for themselves
no biggie
Ahhh yes, get way up in there, take the whole fart right in!
Their patches were basically DLC’s, as it should be. Thank you Larian
One one hand it’s annoying cause I would genuinely throw 100’s upon 100’s on DLCs as long as they were willing to make them cause you just know they would make a well crafted and thought out 40 – 60 side campaigns for £30 a pop.
On the other hand it’s an integrity move and they have dropped so much free stuff, patch 8 would have been a £20 dlc from so many others, that I respect it highly.
I still haven’t played it but honestly I really like how they handled the pre-release into release, where it was just “Here’s the bones, wait a few months, alright cool here’s some meat and more is coming.”
Like a Brazilian steakhouse.
And I mean honestly if you don’t speed run BG3 is like a main game and several dlc worth of content already
very old news, sven said they’d rather make something new without the constraints of bg3 or something to that effect.
No wonder why I dropped the game 3 hours in.
Too much “content” very little game.
I need for them to hurry up with their new game so I can buy it! (I don’t even know what it is but I’m still buying it)
Keeping their developers happy. I love this.
How about “big tits” DLC? Just sit on it. You don’t have to answer right away.
If DLCs must exist, they at least should be developed by an external team while the main team rests or starts work on the next entry. If not possible because it’s a small company without multiple teams, don’t do DLC.
Kinda have to agree with them though
Instead of using resources on just furthering a story just to milk the game for more money, it’s a lot more interesting if they’d move on to the next project.
It’s a bit like an author writing side-stories from a series that’s already ended.