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[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 189 points 3 months ago

I bet this is a falling out with Hasbro execs on royalties. BG3 royalties were a cash cow this year for Hasbro, pushing Wizards (as a division) to be quite profitable, while almost all other divisions in their company lost money.

So now the agreement is over, and Larian is like: we will own the IP on our next project instead of paying $90M to Hasbro... And fair enough -- they've shown they can kick ass. Hasbro is probably gambling that it's the IP that made the money, and not Larian being magic in a bottle as a developer. So they'll kick tires on selling BG4 to another studio.

BG3 will go down in history as the legendary game before enshittification. Larian will make a few great games that don't sell as well -- before selling out to a whale that dumps money on the owner's front lawn (see also BioWare). The devs who made BG3 will found indie studios and make cool shit for a decade or two. So the wheel turns.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 69 points 3 months ago

Larian already made DoS2 (which is better imo then bg3). In any case I look forward to the next Larian project.

[-] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 10 points 3 months ago

Can I hug my big muscly girlfriend in that one though?

[-] RexWrexWrecks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago

You can hug a very thin, very tall, cannibalistic girlfriend though.

[-] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
[-] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 4 points 3 months ago

Sounds close enough

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