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Larian's saying goodbye to Baldur's Gate 3 by giving us some 'really evil' endings

Even though the studio is planning to move on to new things, it's not done with BG3 yet.

PC Gamer

Larian CEO has been 'reading the Reddit threads' and wants us to remove our tinfoil hats, says Wizards of the Coast isn't the reason Baldur's Gate 3 is finished

Swen Vincke says Larian just wanted to move on.

PC Gamer

Writing Baldur's Gate 3 was "the honor of a lifetime," but Larian's new writing director is "so excited for what comes next"

Larian's heading in a new direction

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Larian originally wanted Baldur's Gate 3 to have multiple narrators, also Astarion was a tiefling

Which perhaps would have made him too devilish a rascal.

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Baldur's Gate 3 boss explains there's no bad blood with D&D license owner amid split: "WOTC is not to blame for us taking a different direction"

Larian and Wizards of the Coast apparently had a good working relationship

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Baldur's Gate 3 mod tools won't be as extensive as Divinity's: 'We're not a tools company,' says Swen Vincke

The cross-platform mod support is coming "in the near future," the Larian CEO hopes.

PC Gamer

Swen Vincke says your Baldur's Gate 3 crushes 'now belong to Wizards of the Coast' as the studio leaves D&D behind, prompting a collective nervous gulp

Things will be alright… won't they?

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Baldur's Gate 3's director scrapped its DLC, and the reaction of Larian devs shows it was the right call: "I saw so many elated faces"

Swen Vincke says DLC felt more like an obligation than a passion

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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'

Vincke joins a chorus of devs lamenting the state of the industry at this year's GDC.

PC Gamer

Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC scrapped as Larian moves on from Dungeons & Dragons

“It was a story with a beginning, middle and an end, and it doesn’t need more,” the popular game’s director said

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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.

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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

PC Gamer

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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