The creators of Baldur’s Gate 3 took a turn to focus on their intellectual properties
One of the most surprising news of the year when it comes to video games came from the creators of Baldur’s Gate 3. Everything led us to think that Larian Studios would continue to exploit the success of its video game with the creation of downloadable content or sequels. It is something so common in the industry that it is almost considered more of a natural phenomenon than a business decision. However, the developer told him no to which probably would have been the easiest way to move forward. Now the director of the company has delved into the reasons for this decision.
Larian Studios wants to be independent
Swen Vincke, who was director of the successful RPG Larian Studiosrevealed additional details through a interview with Game Pressure. “Actually, we started working on both the DLC and Baldur’s Gate 4 and then we stopped. I think one of the problems is that it’s not our intellectual property. It’s not our thing. Success attracts a lot of attention, but for us It has always been important to do something of your own. We want to maintain the independence of Larian. With BG3 it was a miracle that they left us alone and we could do whatever we wanted,” explained the developer.
The leader of Larian Studios explained that one of the company’s big goals is to remain independent: “It’s not that we see ourselves as saints or anything like that. We’re just trying to make our game. To make our game, we need to have a level of freedom that we can only achieve if we are independent. We fight very hard for that independence and. That makes working with us very difficult. (…) The company tries to create space so that we can do what we would like to play.”
“My corporate response is that my key performance indicator is gaming. I don’t care about profits. We have started from scratch and we can go back to zero. I hope not, because we like to be able to do things, but it’s about making a really good game. There are many markets for it. People want good RPGs, so it makes sense to make them. The word I hate the most in this industry is ‘quarterly earnings’. It has done a lot of damage to the history of video games. It upsets me when someone tells me that something has to be ready for this or that quarter,” Vincke said.
The future for the creators of Baldur’s Gate 3
Having decided that the ‘tour’ after the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 is now over, the next step for the developers is strengthen work on new projects. They have also talked about them in the interview, although they do not offer too many details. “If anyone at Larian tells you right now what the game is going to be, they’re lying. They don’t know because we’re trying a lot of different things. We have ideas, but we’re a company that can iterate. We try things. We experiment.”
“If I have to be honest… We’re still trying to figure out what the hell it will be.“, completed the director of Baldur’s Gate 3 when talking about his next title. The bad part is that we will have to wait. The good part is that the game will be exactly what the team wants it to be. I wish all the games were developed under that philosophy.
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