Many greetings to Baldur's Gate: after chapter 3 of the saga, Larian Studios leaves it entirely, as confirmed directly by Swen Vincke
It seems like Friday doesn't go by without a killer whiplash: this time we have the farewell of Larian Studios to the next series Baldur’s Gate 3. No DLC or sequels, therefore: he confirmed it Swen Vinckefounder and master builder of the development team, during the Game Developer Conference. The studio rather aims for something completely new and unrelated to the Dungeons & Dragons universe, as it was born as a “company with big ideas”. Also because “life is too short” to try and “fail every time” the way of DLC, as repeated in a e-mail sent by one of the developers to the foreign sector press. “We will forever be proud of it, but we will not carry it forward.”
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Larian Studios and Baldur's Gate 3: final farewell?
Continuing in the email, Larian Studios closes the doors for the future of Baldur's Gate 3. “We will not create expansions, as everyone expects. There will not be a fourth chapter, as anyone predicted. We'll move forward. We're going to move away from D&D and create something new. On our forum we are constantly bombarded with requests about something that is not for us. It will be up to Wizards of the Coast, because the IP is theirs, to find a new witness. We've done our job, and it's time for us to move on to a new puppy.” In other words, therefore, it is a typical case of “abandon at the peak”: a choice, this, which after the victory at the Game Awards has earned all possible respect.
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