Zardnaar
Legend
Yeah if you've played other AAA titles BG3 has some flaws comparatively.
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Yeah if you've played other AAA titles BG3 has some flaws comparatively.
The reason they created their own IP was in order to show WOTC they could handle a D&D game. In addition, BG3 made a ton more money than their other games. I'd be surprised if they didn't do something more. Then again, I've been surprised before.
Maybe they'll do something new, maybe they'll do an expansion, maybe they'll do the next Divine Divinity game. Maybe they'll do more than one game. The only one who know is Mr. Vincke and he's not saying.
Is this documented somewhere, or just supposition? Because the interviews I have seen with Sven indicate that they care A LOT about their IP and the games they make that they own.
LuisCarlos17f
Legend
Sorry for this little off-topic, but I didn't want to create a new threat.
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* My opinion is Hasbro plays with a special adventage and it's thanks with contacts with other companies then licencing should be easier for D&DB comparing with other VTTs.
Maybe D&D Beyond should allow space for other systems. Even WotC could start from zero a new game system, relatively easy to be adapted to d20 5e, but with different leveling up. Maybe Hasbro could talk with Paradox Entertaiment and we could see a new edition of Chronicle of Darkness, the same crunch and factions but without a metaplot linked to our real world. And maybe later also other Onyx franchises (The came from.. Trinity, Pugmire, Scarred Lands..).
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It is normal when a new edition going to be releases to see apparent previous sabbatical year. D&D hasn't lost brand power in the last months, but they are too busy in this new project.
* If there is a merger between WarnerDiscovery and Paramount, Hasbro has got a partnership deal now, maybe we could see more licenced titles.
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* My opinion is Hasbro plays with a special adventage and it's thanks with contacts with other companies then licencing should be easier for D&DB comparing with other VTTs.
Maybe D&D Beyond should allow space for other systems. Even WotC could start from zero a new game system, relatively easy to be adapted to d20 5e, but with different leveling up. Maybe Hasbro could talk with Paradox Entertaiment and we could see a new edition of Chronicle of Darkness, the same crunch and factions but without a metaplot linked to our real world. And maybe later also other Onyx franchises (The came from.. Trinity, Pugmire, Scarred Lands..).
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It is normal when a new edition going to be releases to see apparent previous sabbatical year. D&D hasn't lost brand power in the last months, but they are too busy in this new project.
* If there is a merger between WarnerDiscovery and Paramount, Hasbro has got a partnership deal now, maybe we could see more licenced titles.
I never said they didn't care about their IP. It's one of the reasons I said we may see DD3 instead of somethingrelated to or a sequel to BG3. I'm not going to Google it for you, but they've stated in interviews that one of the reasons they made the games they did was explicitly wanted to make BG 3.
Cergorach
The Laughing One
Larian was created when WotC didn't own D&D yet. What I've understood from the Larian folks is that they've been D&D fans for a long while, but they never had the money/size for a D&D license/game. Until after the success of their Divinity Original Sin game (and WotC/Hasbro went a little more relaxed on licensing)...
Before their Divinity games they actually made a game they 'sold' to Atari and then Atari left the PC games scene. They made some other games, even something that was called "The Lady, the Mage and the Knight", worked with another studio to make it a DSA game (The Dark Eye RPG). That project went belly up though.
Swen even indicates that his first ever RPG was Ultima VI. For the first Divinity game they looked at Diablo and BG, but "Ultima VII was the base line". But in a 2000 interview, about Divine Divinity, not once did they mention D&D.
They created their own IP because that was the cheapest way to use an IP...
Larian is great, but they aren't the second coming, and BG3 hasn't been 28 years in the making...
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Zardnaar
Legend
Think BG on steam sold ten times as many copies as active users on Beyond.
It's sold more than 5E and broke a billion in revenue. That's more than the entire 5E run.
That excludes console sales.
Probably cost more to make than 5E too.
(Some video games are costing incredible amounts!)
Cheers,
Merric
Zardnaar
Legend
Probably cost more to make than 5E too.
(Some video games are costing incredible amounts!)
Cheers,
Merric
Yeah I'm aware of tge cost. They hot 200 million 2010 iirc.
Now a AAA is 200-300 million and 100+ is typical.
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