Urdlen's best boy
Deep Crawler
- Joined
- May 23, 2023
- Messages
- 910
- Reaction score
- 1,941
Extremely so. According to their own reports it made 90+ million $ for them and without it D&D would have been losing money last year. It was hugely successful as a video game, one of the year's best sellers and getting a lot of praise and awards.Didn't I hear the latest Baldur's Gate videogame was very successful?
I remember a crapton of D&D computer games in the early 90s.
Historically D&D video games where hit and miss. Lots of the 90s ones were indeed spammed, few being good enough to make good money or survive the test of time and have had very variable success as result. Late 90s early 2000s there were some quality & successful streak but didn't last past 2004 or 2008 at most
What happened is they fired the people who were Larian's contacts in WoTC. Later Swen announced he wouldn't work with them anymore but also made declarations about industry layoffs.They literally fired the company that produced BG3.
Whether the two are linked is the rumored part, though it is coherent with the fact Larian has always been vocally worried of working with publishers and other actors because of greedy short term practices like that. Also the fact WoTC seemed surprised.
I tend to think they would have likely went back to do their own stuff for a while anyway, since that is how Larian does protect it's longterm health, but might have been willing to work again with them later if not for that bridge burning - say one or two games down the line. From a buisness perspective it makes no sense taking long term engagement with a compagny where you're not sure you can always have the regulars you trust.
That last paragraph is speculation. Argumented, but still.