D&D General Should BG4 be a new story or continue on from BG3's story?

[Parmandur]

I think folks saying WotC can do a BG3 with minimal.effort are missing a major point: Larian is not a publicly traded company. They can experiment, and they can put stuff out in Early Access and actually listen to feedback.

Hasbro can't. It has shareholders who only care about next quarter. WotC/Hasbro can NEVER make a game as good as Larian can -- not because the creatives involved are less talented or care less, but because modern corporate structure is designed to kill creativity and innovation. Those things take time, and investors have been trained to only look at next quarter.

I mean, not to say Hasbro will...but on the contrary to what you say here I can only respond by mentioning that the most historically successful video game company that is on a creative tear right now is a very corporate publicly traded company: Nintendo.

 

[Reynard]

I mean, not to say Hasbro will...but on the contrary to what you say here I can only respond by mentioning that the most historically successful video game company that is on a creative tear right now is a very corporate publicly traded company: Nintendo.

Yeah, it's almost as if they operate in a completely different cultural context than western companies.

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, it's almost as if they operate in a completely different cultural context than western companies.

That's true: but it is also true that publicly traded corporations, as such, are not poisonous to successful and even wildly creative video game development. There are other factors at play, but that would violate the rules of the board so I shall abstain from going further.