Larian is walking away from Baldur's Gate 3, no DLC, no expansions, no sequel

[lonetac]

I spoke to the larian devs at pax east this last weekend. They are already hard at work on their next project but couldnt give any details.

They moved on from BG3 a long time ago and always stated there would be no DLC so this shouldnt be a surprise. QoL and bug fixes will still be implemented.

 

[user478318]

Not having DLC is not an issue. Back in the days, you pay once for a good game, and that’s about it. There is no such nonsense of DLC because the game is complete. Most DLC requires shelling out extra money for gamers, and really like an agile delivery of a partially finished product, and at the same time earn extra money for further deliveries.

Your memory serves you badly, we had expansions at the time, and they where pretty much same things as DLCs, an excuse to sell you the same game twice

 

[Bamda]

Very Smart for the studio to decide against expanding the game or making a sequel any time soon.

When you have something this massively popular anything remotely related it could only hurt the the legacy of the game if ends up being a disappointment.

100%, this would just turn into another ugly situation for them as gamers would find ways to nit-pick an expansion to death. Better they just move on to another project where their talents are better served.

 

[Bamda]

Probably want to control their own destiny not pay more royalties/license fees etc

Plus they are creatives - so probably have 5 or 6 ideas floating around

If they were cynical just redo assets for some other setting
I was curious they have their own engine !!
Divinity 4.0 engine

So they could go anyway , today , victorian england , post-apocalyptic etc

Games are only gonna get more immersive
as a small studio I think they might feel innovate or die creatively

People have been promising most interactive world ever for decades , many games died on the hill

I think there is a huge market for single player non twitch games , non dark souls no diablo 4 monster spamming

Most successful huge single player games are those anyone can play with some simple skills

I am dying for a good Sci-Fi RPG, I would love to see them make one.

 

[lonetac]

I am dying for a good Sci-Fi RPG, I would love to see them make one.

If you dont mind the warhammer universe, look at warhammer 40,000 rogue trader. it shares some similarities with the way BG3 is played.

 

[Bamda]

If you dont mind the warhammer universe, look at warhammer 40,000 rogue trader. it shares some similarities with the way BG3 is played.

I will check it out, thanks for the heads up.