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Joshua Wolens

Larian CEO Swen Vincke accepts Baldur's Gate 3's latest award by blasting corporate 'greed' devastating devs: 'I've been fighting with publishers my whole life, and I keep on seeing the same mistakes'

Swen Vincke accepting the Best Narrative award for Baldur's Gate 3 at the GDCA.

The dire state of the games industry has been impossible to ignore at this year's GDC: Dwarf Fortress' Tarn Adams has been excoriating execs, devs have been literally screaming about it, and now Larian CEO Swen Vincke has taken to the stage and criticised the "greed, which has been fucking this thing up for so long."

Vincke was accepting Baldur's Gate 3's GDCA award for Best Narrative when he began speaking about his experience of short-term, solely profit-motivated thinking at game publishers: "I've been fighting with publishers my entire life, and I keep on seeing the same mistakes, over and over and over.

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