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Wizards of the Coast "now talking to lots of partners" about next Baldur's Gate (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Old series that has a decent following of mostly niche dedicated fans is left to sit without a new installment for many years.
New title is announced. It's sells gang-busters and flips the community on its head.
Corporate Executives prioritize short term profits and begin planning a quick and easy cash grab. !
Second new installment comes out. It is a shell of the previous title with the soul sucked clean out.
Fans are dissapointed and outside of a small niche following the game series falls into obscurity.
Repeat.

! we are here right now

Look.. Maybe BG4 will be good. But after watching this exact cycle play out over and over again for the past decade I'm not sure how you can expect anything else.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

BG4 is going to be BGOnline 😂

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it's a straight terrible port from a mobile game with a solid gacha foundation and Baldur's Gate skins tacked on. Also you need to subscribe and pay a weekly fee to get access to the premium lockboxes that may or may not (spoiler: they do not) give you the characters/skins/whatever that you actually came for. Everything is time-gated unless you pay more of the premium currency to be allowed to grind more for a chance that won't proc anyway unless you go into debt to buy enough crates.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So...a new Dark Alliance game is up next?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Don't... Don't give me hope...

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