![]() ![]() ![]() Whether publishers and leaders take those lessons to heart is another story and not every developer has the luxury of being under a publisher who does. Shipping a complete product and giving creative teams time to execute on a vision that sounds compelling and achievable can really pay off. I think it’s moreso that most of the lessons learned from BG3 should be on the executive & publisher level. Which is absurd, because what makes this game setting a high bar any different from any other game setting a high bar? Like yeah the conditions were right for it to be good, but there are lessons to take from it just like there are lessons to take from any other game. I agree with this probably being more accurate to what's going on - the headlines have been terrible around this discourse and just make it sound like developers are wagging their fingers at people going "you better not expect more games to be like BG3". Consumer expectations need to be directed at the publishers funding these projects, pushing these directives for mircotransactions, live services, tight deadlines resulting in rushed/unoptimized games. I think most wish they could be free to do what Larian has done, but they simply don't have that kind of funding or freedom. And/or they're going to get massive projects greenlit by Pubs but then they don't have nearly as much funding or creative control as Larian did yet are expected to create something of similar complexity and scope. What a lot of devs are likely fearful of is that they're going to get more abuse and derision towards their games when they don't meet those expectations consumers have compared to Larian's output. Larian are the masters of their own destiny, most other devs are not. The primary if I recall from the initial tweet thread being that this kind of scale of development is not sustainable and fraught with a great deal of risk. Kind of a shitty vid from IGN that misrepresents things a good deal for milquetoast gamer outrage content, misses a lot of what those dev posts are really driving at. ![]()
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