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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9701204" data-attributes="member: 11760">It was a massive hit when it went to early access, which lasted more than a year. WotC had ample time to do something more than they did. At a minimum, they could have grabbed a bunch of the concept art (later used in the DADHAT concept art book) and slapped it on the Golden Vault and tweaked names and places to have more synergy with the movie.And creating a new starter set is relatively simple, since most of the components have historically been more or less the same, other than the adventure. (They're obviously breaking this trend for Heroes of the Borderlands.) Getting one of their good writers to do a short starter adventure running through some of the places seen in the movie wouldn't have been difficult to do ahead of the film.Worst case scenario, big shiny gold stickers and shrink-wrap that said something like "You loved Honor Among Thieves in theaters, now bring the adventure home!" to slap on existing core books would have been pretty trivial to do. (DC Comics put branding pushing every one of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies on the front covers of most of their comics throughout the 1970s and 1980s, which they clearly felt was useful.)If the brand manager didn't know how well Baldur's Gate 3 was doing among early access players -- and it was, and got quite a bit of publicity for it in the gaming press -- that's absolutely a failure in-house and not something inevitable.</blockquote>

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