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they seem to understand that with their print + digital bundles at least, possibly with the FR digital bundle too, depending on what the DLCs will cost individually

For all those wondering why Matt is staying silent, he posted a new video, haven’t watched it yet…

guess those people have largely blocked me then sure, and saying ‘it is not for me’ should also be ok

yes I do not see this as a conclusion or this Wanting the fantasy feel to not be too modern in a game to me does not mean anything wrt real life. Most such people have not joined the Amish, and if they did, they are not posting here ;)

closer to the first than the second. When this came out I simply ignored it. I also did not start the topic, but since it is going on already I see nothing wrong with posting in it.

yes, but the last 200 years had more change / progress than the 2000 before it…

eh, to me it stays too close to the modern real world for its settings. If that works for you, great, it is not what I am looking for

no, I focused on what I consider to be its central flaw… so you are telling me that the only way for ‘ethnic groups to use their history and experiences’ is for said groups to 1:1 just replicate the setting they lived in, say, 100 years ago with minimal fantasy flourishes? They cannot use their...

but Africans did

the distinction is very blurry right now…

before 2013, ie before DOS1… it really is that too was explained to you already

We do know it was before 2022 however, and losing 200k in 2022 while having 400 people work on BG3 is meaningless, it certainly is nowhere near ‘brink of bankruptcy’ territory that you want it to be at

they could not make BG3 without approval, in that sense they did 200k loss means you are basically breaking even on sales of your old games while at peak development of the new one, that is a pretty good spot to be in for an independent studio crowd funding with DOS2, outside investment with...

Swen owns 62%, the Tencent investment probably was in 2018. Maybe the Tencent investment helped them with getting Hasbro on board or having the funds to go AAA and basically double the team for BG3, no idea. It is not what saved them from ‘the brink of bankruptcy’ in 2022, that bit never happened

this is over a span of 10+ years, they flirted with bankruptcy before DOS1, never after. The success of DOS2 allowed them to go all in on BG3 (instead of keeping it at a level of ‘slightly improved DOS2’). So you are only going by what you read in the sense that all the words appear in the...

from the 400 of BG3 down to maybe 200 (still bigger than the 140 of DOS2)? Yeah, maybe, but brink of bankruptcy? not even close

yes, that would have been a problem but has that ever in the history of Early Access actually happened? To me the real risk is that maybe 30% of your audience already bought it during EA instead of the typical 20% (or whatever the actual numbers are), not 100% of it, and that still would have...

link? Given how completely counter to the actual article your last ‘summary’ was, I will need to read that myself… agreed, but not with bankruptcy around the corner in 2022. Had they failed, they would not have made hundreds of millions from the game and had not managed to climb the ladder to...

yes, it was a bit of a gamble, but given that they basically broke even in 2022, the year before the release, they had the finances for it and even if it had not been as successful they probably would have easily made their money back and then some, given that in 2023 they had a 200M profit...

yeah, found it in the meantime, see edit to my previous post, you are completely misrepresenting the article. Verge of bankruptcy was before 2013, the ‘scale up or down’ is Swen saying they underestimated the amount of people BG3 would take, so they could either scale the company up to deliver...