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One Year Later, Larian Reflects On Baldur's Gate 3's Success, Future Plans, And Canceling DLC: "Ever Since, We've Felt Better" (www.ign.com)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

In March, Vincke announced the studio's plans to end its partnership with Wizards of the Coast, meaning Larian won't be making DLC or a sequel to their critical success. Several months after this announcement, Vincke says the folks at Larian have no regrets about the decision.

Genuinely sad to hear, as WotC has a ton of rich properties that a studio like Larian could have brought to vivid life. Would love to have a Larian treatment of the MtG Multiverse or a rendition of the Dragonlance series or setting.

Excited to see what they do next, but its a shame to see these companies part ways.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Considering that Vincke (or another person from Larian) has stated that everyone from WotC they worked with has now been laid off despite the huge success of BG3, I'm glad Larian are focusing on their own IP instead of bringing in money for WotC/Hasbro.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean considering the last mainstream headline I remember about WotC is them sending the Pinkertons to chase after a random streamer because they fucked up and sent him unrevealed cards for MtG, I think they are a really bad company and I pray for their downfall, so someone else picks up the IP and runs with it.

I mean the layoffs are bad as well but there's a non-exhaustive list of reasons to not like WotC and to not be associated with them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

so someone else picks up the IP and runs with it.

My bet is that either Disney or EA would pick it up

[–] Anticorp 2 points 1 month ago

Puke

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 13 points 1 month ago

everyone from WotC they worked with has now been laid off despite the huge success of BG3

Yesh. That's ugly.

[–] CosmoNova 34 points 1 month ago

I‘m happy they got out to work on something better and less restraining. There‘s already a lot in their Original Sins games that couldn‘t be brought over to BG3 but I‘d love to see return in future games and there‘s so much more to come on top of that.