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No More Baldur's Gate From Larion: Team Is 'Elated'
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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9300271" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>I suspect there's language in the contract that gives WotC a limited time license to use it in just these sorts of cases. But Hasbro would need an in-house team with a lot of experience on CRPGs to be able to spin up a DLC team for BG3, and there's no evidence they've got anything of the sort. The closest Hasbro has come to BG3 is Dark Alliance, which has been memory-holed by everyone, even just a few years later.</p><p></p><p>So they <em>could</em> do something like this, but they would have to be very on the ball about finding someone, say, who'd just left Bioware or Obsidian, give them a big pile of money, let them hire their own small team and give them a lot of authority very quickly. That's a big ask for any company that's not in start-up mode, and Hasbro definitely does not have a start-up mindset.</p><p></p><p>I would guess BG3 is dead. And given that WotC seems uninclined to even do a book collecting the settings, NPCs, treasure (so much treasure), spells and monsters from the game, I'd assume this is basically over, except for the next big BG3 patch, which adds more formal modding support.</p><p></p><p>If we're lucky, we will see a few of the companions from BG3 show up in 10 years in BG4. If we're really lucky, they'll show up in a novel or adventure, but I wouldn't expect that any time soon, given how ambivalent WotC has been about the game, even before all the people who worked with Larian were shown the door. (Minsc and Boo showing up in recent products is a BG1 & 2 thing, IMO.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9300271, member: 11760"] I suspect there's language in the contract that gives WotC a limited time license to use it in just these sorts of cases. But Hasbro would need an in-house team with a lot of experience on CRPGs to be able to spin up a DLC team for BG3, and there's no evidence they've got anything of the sort. The closest Hasbro has come to BG3 is Dark Alliance, which has been memory-holed by everyone, even just a few years later. So they [I]could[/I] do something like this, but they would have to be very on the ball about finding someone, say, who'd just left Bioware or Obsidian, give them a big pile of money, let them hire their own small team and give them a lot of authority very quickly. That's a big ask for any company that's not in start-up mode, and Hasbro definitely does not have a start-up mindset. I would guess BG3 is dead. And given that WotC seems uninclined to even do a book collecting the settings, NPCs, treasure (so much treasure), spells and monsters from the game, I'd assume this is basically over, except for the next big BG3 patch, which adds more formal modding support. If we're lucky, we will see a few of the companions from BG3 show up in 10 years in BG4. If we're really lucky, they'll show up in a novel or adventure, but I wouldn't expect that any time soon, given how ambivalent WotC has been about the game, even before all the people who worked with Larian were shown the door. (Minsc and Boo showing up in recent products is a BG1 & 2 thing, IMO.) [/QUOTE]
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