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Baldur's Gate 3's Swen Vincke says the hit D&D RPG will still get updates like mod support and new ending cinematics, just not "new content"

"It’s not easy for us to say goodbye to them but we also knew from the get-go we’d have to one day"

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Baldur's Gate 3 boss says today's technology cannot handle his "very big RPG that will dwarf them all," hopes the PS6 generation "is gonna bring us closer"

Larian's already working on a new game that builds on the foundations of Baldur's Gate 3, but that's not even the big one

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Larian is done with Baldur's Gate 3 and D&D, and won't make Baldur's Gate 4: "We'll forever be proud of it but we're not going to continue in it"

"We are not a company that's made to create DLCs or expansions"

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Larian is finished with Baldur's Gate: 'We're going to move away from D&D and we're going to start making a new thing'

Larian boss Swen Vincke said the studio's ambitions are too big, and life is too short, to be making Baldur's Gate 3 expansions.

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 boss tells layoff-happy publishers to stop trying to "double" their money and instead "respect the people making the games"

"Build more slowly and make your aim improving the state of the art"

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Larian CEO Swen Vincke extols the 'incredible achievement' of Baldur's Gate 3 influence Ultima 7, but confesses he hasn't played since the '90s 'because I don't want to spoil the memory'

You know what, Swen? I get it.

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After $90 million driven by Baldur's Gate 3, Hasbro says games will be "huge" for D&D and Larian's hit RPG is "just the first of several new video games" to come

Baldur's Gate 3 is a "mega hit" that Hasbro expects to pay dividends for years

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Hasbro has made about $90 million by letting Larian make a D&D game

Baldur's Gate 3 has worked out very well for Hasbro

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Baldur's Gate 3 now has over 500,000 Steam reviews and a 96% score, putting the RPG with Stardew Valley and Hollow Knight among the store's best-reviewed games

The reviews are a great read too

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Baldur's Gate 3 hits half-a-million Steam reviews, and reading them has been 'pure joy,' says Swen Vincke

The RPG has hit another milestone, putting it in the company of games like Stardew Valley and Payday 2.

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Baldur's Gate 3 director thinks "direct from developer to players is the way" so you won't find Larian's games on subscription services

Swen Vincke reminds fans: "You won’t find our games on a subscription service"

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Baldur's Gate 3 director says players won't ever find Larian Studios' games on a subscription service

Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke has said that the studio's games won't ever be found on a subscription service.

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'You won’t find our games on a subscription service' says the founder of Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian, after Ubisoft forecasts a future of players 'not owning' games

"Subscription models will always end up being cost/benefit analysis exercises intended to maximise profit."

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 designer totally gets it if you were overwhelmed by the shift to the game's 3rd act, and don't worry: it'll be 'less drastic' in future games

Did you have to take a break once you hit Rivington? You're not alone.

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Baldur's Gate 3 director says he's "finally figured out" the first act of his next project

Swen Vincke suspects "a lot" of this idea will survive

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Larian CEO and founder Swen Vincke thinks he's cracked the first act of his next game, but 'it's not what you think and this is not an teaser for an announcement'

First draft.

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In the wake of Baldur’s Gate 3, 2024 will be a banner year for RPGs

The year of Baldur’s Gate 3 may be over but, going into 2024, the crop of upcoming RPGs is looking extremely healthy.

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2023 was a decade-defining year for game releases, but so brutal for the industry it's hard to imagine another one like it happening for a long time

Was 2023 good for the world? No. For the industry? Also no. But the games themselves? Boy did they rule.

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We expected Baldur's Gate 3 to be good, but who knew it'd be such a huge hit?

Baldur's Gate 3 surpassed our wildest expectations for the popularity of a turn-based CRPG.

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Watch The Lord of the Rings' Frodo and Sam play Baldur's Gate 3 and sow violent, hilarious Dark Urge chaos

Elijah Wood and Sean Astin join Larian CEO Swen Vincke to check out the studio's GOTY-winning RPG.

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A Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough with Swen Vincke and Lord of The Rings’ Elijah Wood and Sean Austin is the D&D session I didn't know I needed

Delightful viewing

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Baldur's Gate 3 leads defend the claim that the D&D RPG has 17,000 endings: "Some of them are subtle"

There's more permutations than you think at work here

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Larian wanted Paladin as BG3’s default class, but Lae’zel happened

Larian Studios considered making Paladin the default Baldur’s Gate 3 class, but ran into a few snags with player choice and Lae'zel

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Baldur's Gate 3's most popular class was originally going to be its default one, but Lae'zel kind of ruined it

There were plenty of "narrative problems" to contend with

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Larian CEO says Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge character was originally going to be a Paladin by default, which makes me even happier I played it that way

"But then we started thinking about it and said, actually that's bringing in a lot of narrative problems."

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