Wow! Larian Studios shocked the gang throughout a Thursday Recreation Builders Convention panel dialogue. Founder and CEO Swen Vincke revealed that the studio has little interest in increasing upon its massively well-liked Baldur’s Gate 3 RPG. He clarified that followers should not get their hopes up for any DLC, expansions, or a Baldur’s Gate 4.
The revelation was surprising, famous IGN. The studio has been tightlipped about numbers, however Baldur’s Gate 3 gross sales estimates vary from 7.5 million copies offered to over 20 million, relying on who you ask. The low-range ballpark appears unrealistic, contemplating the sport is out there on all main gaming platforms besides the Change. Moreover, as of final August, it had offered greater than 5.2 million items on Steam alone. The general consensus is a imprecise “approach over 10 million.”
No matter precise counts, few would deny the sport’s reputation. Fewer nonetheless would have thought Larian would abandon the chance to take advantage of extra income from this potential money cow. Its builders did present some post-launch content material, together with a playable epilogue. Many had been assured there was extra to return, particularly a sequel.
Nevertheless, Larian did give us hints this could occur. Throughout Gamescom 2023, Senior Product Supervisor Tom Butler instructed IGN that the studio would proceed with patches in the intervening time however talked about a vacation and transferring on to one thing else in the identical breath.
“We’ll keep it up patching for some time after which we’re all going to take a vacation after which we’ll determine what we do subsequent,” Butler defined. “However for the time being, we genuinely have discussions. We need to do extra. We do not know what but.”
Baldur’s Gate 3 is already a large sport. The bodily model comes on 4 discs. For my part, it is one of many first titles in an extended whereas that I might think about full at launch – except for some bugs. It totally has sufficient content material to not warrant the continual growth many avid gamers count on.
Moreover, Larian mentioned that it’s working on a cross-platform modding system it hopes to implement earlier than it elements methods. As we’ve got seen with video games like Skyrim and Fallout 4, community-created mods can typically rival a studio’s personal DLC efforts – Fallout: London anybody? So, BG3 will possible have a few years of community-supported materials in its future.
As for what’s subsequent, the studio is finest identified for its Divinity RPG franchise. Launched in 2002 with the sport Divine Divinity, its newest entries, Divinity: Authentic Sin (2014) and Divinity: Authentic Sin II (2017), had been very nicely acquired. Each earned spots on our ongoing “The Greatest PC Video games (You Ought to Be Taking part in)” checklist, so test them out if you have not already. Judging by the developer’s launch cadence, we ought to be about due for an additional Divinity sport, however who is aware of?
