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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...

Link? If you are on the verge of bankruptcy, where does the money come from to go all in? Also, they basically broke even (200k loss…), not really what is generally considered the ‘verge of bankruptcy’ EDIT: the one I found is Larian’s thorny path to Baldur’s Gate 3: from underdogs with Intel...

they released DOS2 in 2017 and BG3 in 2023, so 2022 was deep in the BG3 development, a year dominated by investment into their new game. That year they posted a $220k loss, in 2023 they posted a $260M profit (pre-tax). Saying they were on the ropes in 2022 due to the heavy investment into their...

sounds like it, since for 95%+ this is their first FR book, they just say what currently is and do not spend time on how it was and how it got here

except that they weren’t on the ropes at all, so not sure where you heard that, but I very much doubt it was from Sven, he would have known better

Of course there will be a BG4, BG3 made enough money to ensure that. Chances are BG3 will also result in quite a few BG4 sales, no matter its actual quality

based on the website those are Australian $, not sure how much WotC books usually cost down under

no worse than the topaz method ;)

they do, they can blow air out one end, or they have magic ;)

that is because balloons generally lack a means of propulsion (hello zeppelin), the dragon does not ;)

no one is twisting GR’s arm here, if they streamline it, it is because they think that will attract a larger audience

yeah, put a winged viking helmet / a propeller hat on a T-Rex and pretend that allows them to fly, that is about the realism of these backward wings

the same way balloons do

agreed yep, don’t like funhouse dungeons for much the same reason either I agree that they do not ‘need to be’, as both adventures demonstrate, I do however believe it would drastically improve them if they were