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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 9213856" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>Take a look at Diablo 4. Diablo is a big name that comes with big expectations. They released a game that assumed the IP would sell itself and where they took shortcuts in quality to rush it out and start making money. The result: Big initial splash - followed by a huge crash. They lost a lot of money, and they've permanently (further) damaged the Blizzard name in doing so. Blizzard would have been better off if they'd called off Diablo 4 and instead released that game with some tweaks under a new IP so that they could do a Diablo 4 right. Right now, Blizzard would be better off hitting a reset button by giving full creative/brand control to people that were running things in the golden days of Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft - and focus more on rebuilding the brands than on short term profits. They've already squeezed all the short term profits out.</p><p></p><p>BG3 had turned D&D games into a big name with big expectations. If you release a D&D game in the next 5 years that doesn't come close to the level of storytelling and gameplay found in BG3 - you could Diablo 4 your company. You could see people slam it for being a money grab trying to capitalize upon BG3 (even if you started work on your game before you knew of BG3) - and you could raise the ire of the BG3 fanbase against your company. You might not recover your development costs, and you might damage your company brand IP. On the other hand, if you release a game that is so good that people consider it a good partner to BG3 you could be looking at the same types of success Larian is experiencing. Your small name company could suddenly become the "it" company of the year. You could see streams of revenue arise from licensing your characters from your game. You could become masters of your own destiny. </p><p></p><p>D&D, in short, is a gaming IP that just entered a five or so year period of big wins and big losses, but little middle ground. That will fade unless we get another huge hit D&D game ... but I highly doubt we struck lightning twice and that there is another game in development that has the same priorities behind it that BG3 did. I think we're going to hear a lot about D&D games coming out in the next 5 years ... but forget them as soon as they are out. </p><p></p><p>How many of us remember the name of the other game announced around the time of BG3 that was clearly a D&D rip off ... and came out first ... and had a demo little area with spiders in it ... They made their own sublasses ...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 9213856, member: 2629"] Take a look at Diablo 4. Diablo is a big name that comes with big expectations. They released a game that assumed the IP would sell itself and where they took shortcuts in quality to rush it out and start making money. The result: Big initial splash - followed by a huge crash. They lost a lot of money, and they've permanently (further) damaged the Blizzard name in doing so. Blizzard would have been better off if they'd called off Diablo 4 and instead released that game with some tweaks under a new IP so that they could do a Diablo 4 right. Right now, Blizzard would be better off hitting a reset button by giving full creative/brand control to people that were running things in the golden days of Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft - and focus more on rebuilding the brands than on short term profits. They've already squeezed all the short term profits out. BG3 had turned D&D games into a big name with big expectations. If you release a D&D game in the next 5 years that doesn't come close to the level of storytelling and gameplay found in BG3 - you could Diablo 4 your company. You could see people slam it for being a money grab trying to capitalize upon BG3 (even if you started work on your game before you knew of BG3) - and you could raise the ire of the BG3 fanbase against your company. You might not recover your development costs, and you might damage your company brand IP. On the other hand, if you release a game that is so good that people consider it a good partner to BG3 you could be looking at the same types of success Larian is experiencing. Your small name company could suddenly become the "it" company of the year. You could see streams of revenue arise from licensing your characters from your game. You could become masters of your own destiny. D&D, in short, is a gaming IP that just entered a five or so year period of big wins and big losses, but little middle ground. That will fade unless we get another huge hit D&D game ... but I highly doubt we struck lightning twice and that there is another game in development that has the same priorities behind it that BG3 did. I think we're going to hear a lot about D&D games coming out in the next 5 years ... but forget them as soon as they are out. How many of us remember the name of the other game announced around the time of BG3 that was clearly a D&D rip off ... and came out first ... and had a demo little area with spiders in it ... They made their own sublasses ... [/QUOTE]
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