>spent years developing
>by far most successful game
>confirms they will not make DLC, a sequel, and likely not even a definitive edition or mod tools
Anyone else find this strange, despite WotC being buttholes or whatever no one gives a frick about Divinity or whatever. Seems weird that they are just abandoning this game
Wokeslop
but they literally said the next patch is including mod tools you dumb outrage bait homosexual
They got their exposure and dipped
Excited for their next game without WotC
it's not about money
They just announced mod tools, coperino and seetherino.
literally everyone that worked with them on it from WotC got fired
If it was extremely successful seems like hasbro didn't get the message
Hasbro/wotc was busy completely tanking the company long before this game
I would like to imagine higher ups at Hasbro were upset about the game being so oversexed but that's pretty wishful thinking, they just didn't know how much money they had on their hands and let it slip through their fingers
>Anyone else find this strange
No, it's always been a Tencent bot and shill campaign only TikTok zoomies were sucked into buying. Sales are well below the sales estimates released from a chinese embassy. All reviews were bought by Tencent.
No Chinaman ever called me a bigot
No Russian for that matter either, an attention seeker, lacking in empathy, but never a bigot.
>Massive CCP op via tencent to take over WotC
>Fails
>Backpedals on all projects, dissolves all teams, Larian still wienery about a husband and wife owner losing 1/3 of their company to Mainland China
The most hilarious vidya takeover in history
man can you fricking imagine how it is to have to sell 30% of your baby company that you created over twenty years ago?
fricking hell man that must be quite a hite
>not even going to fix the game
FLOP
They probably don't want to give Hasbro a chunk of their revenue just for the license.
>BG3
>earning anything
Tencent gave them that money as part of the license deal. The game itself hasn't sold jack shit.
They can't release actual numbers because
>The game was account botted to hell and back for free/at huge rebate registered on steam as full price purchases
>All sales tracked via Tencent inside China, only released as estimates from a Chinese embassy
If they even dared to release sales figures, every financial regulator in the West would evaporate Larian and its holdings company.
cringe
You’ve got issues man. It’s like a weird obsession for you.
>search term
Shit-tier trolling.
you can't read graphs pablo
Your graph was wrong bruh.
>your
wroing. read it again.
>a return to form turn based crpg like they were making in the 90s
>something that larian themselves have been continuously shitting out for the past 3 decades
>"innovative new products"
It's hopeless. There are layers to how out of touch these fricks are. They'll never learn anything, be it from success or failure. Larian were right to ditch them outright.
Larian's first turn based game was less than a decade ago
Hasbro doesn't know that. Hasbro is one of those companies that owns a bunch of successful brands and has absolutely no fricking idea why they succeeded. Pic related, it's the average Hasbro executive.
Larian specifically used to be in the rtwp camp for the longest time. Crpgs as a genre had plenty of turn based titles even back then, like the original Fallout.
>RTWP
God no. They were action games more like Diablo.
Somehow calling the old Divinity games diablo-likes just doesn't feel right.
>The absolute state of chud 'wit'
why can't swen say taiwan on camera?
So much samegayging ITT. A new low.
why can't you just answer a basic question schizo?
So how many sales were actually expected and sold?
The same number of properties Evergrande expects to sell this year
>doesn't know how to verify
Goi easy on him. He's the same moron using archive hashes to track "samegays" lmao
>Still pretending to be different people
Embarrassing.
those meds aren't going to take themselves
>implying that proves anything
lmao
>proof isn't proof
this isn't your homeland of West Taiwan
>moron thinks people don't know about Inspect Element
I knew you were a halfwit but lol
You can't even use the archive. You can barely type in English.
Was it worth it Swen? Was it worth the cheat code? A once beloved company for a niche audience continuously selling its soul to hit fake benchmarks?
Oh shit who did you respond to?? Couldn't be me.
>he's talking to himself in circles now
Concession accepted. You may carry on with your day.
>don't answer a simple question
predictable
>no one gives a frick about Divinity
Except the devs. The devs care about it. And because they're indie, they can just make what they want instead of what the publisher demands, they're spending the money they've made however they want.
Do we even know that what they're making next is Divinity?
Didn't they just announce mod tools are coming in the next patch?
Also Swen said they're working on 2 new games which seems pretty ambitious
>Didn't they just announce mod tools are coming in the next patch?
They don't have any money besides bug fixes and pushed internal tools externally. Whatever Tencent permits that won't affect their budgets on the next 2 flops which can't use Hasbro IPs because they fumbled the takeover attempt.
I mean
They ended up just hiring about half the devs wotc laid off
So... successful brain drain
>tencent
>permits
Ok timmy your homework for this thread was to learn what a preferred share is, and you clearly failed.
30% of the company in preferred status, but I'm sure the Belgian couple has plenty of say over the literal CCP lmao
I'm sure the finance officials are REALLY keen to listen when gweilo speaks.
>2 new games
I'm guessing DoS3 and the new space IP
https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/larian-confirms-its-working-on-two-new-projects-what-we-re-working-on-now-will-be-our-best-work-ever
>Larian Studios has confirmed that it is developing two new projects, separate from the Baldur’s Gate franchise. The studio has confirmed that it will not be creating Baldur’s Gate 4
>These upcoming projects will feature completely original intellectual properties.
I don't particularly care about Divinity but I really hope their other IP is sci-fi. Larian with something like KotOR would be kino
Another game that they don't fix
The original Kotors were both buggy unfinished messes but still kino
I don't care what the setting is I just want it to be turn-based, because Larian are masters of turn-based combat. No one is on their level
>no mod tools
Based moron https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/4172097464031362567
How much time do you think this schizo has wasted complaining about BG3 on a cantonese basket weaving forum?
Over a thousand, at least. He's in every thread that mentions bg3 and probably has web crawling bots set up
He is Larian's greatest marketer and makes sure no thread dies. For free.
I'm about 95% sure this idiot spammer is the same one that spams Witcher 3 threads with the same shit pictures about women in their company and downgrade from a marketing trailer from E3.
Probably has some issues with good RPGs getting popular or something
He loves shallow Japslop and gets mad over European games.
Damn, that sucks couldn't be me, well i guess someone has to be at the bottom of the pyramid amirite?
They just confirmed they're making two more games so he's going to have to keep it up much longer.
Sven wants full creative control over Larian's games, but also Sven was also just talking about how he thinks all these industry layoffs are unnecessary and done out of greed instead of need. That was after Hasbro laid off all the D&D people that Larian would've been in communication with during BG3's development...I guess he really doesn't want to deal with greedy american corpos since he knows they'll screw you for a dollar.
>despite WotC being buttholes or whatever
I think you underestimate how much a pain in the ass WotC has been in the past
>will not make DLC, a sequel, and likely not even a definitive edition or mod tools
yeah, at least until china wants them to do those things.
>ctrl + f
>tencent
>6 results
Absolutely mindbroken & rent free. BG3 is GOAT.
May the seethe never end.
>Somebody HECKAN mentioned Tencent in a Tencent game thread!
When do mod tools drop?
Apparently they're starting to roll them out next patch
Source?
See
>This next patch will also begin introducing our official modding tools, letting you change up visuals, animations, sounds, stats, and more to overhaul Baldur’s Gate 3 into the weird nightmare realm of your dreams.
They made a game to fill the Dragon Age sized hole in my heart. Let them fill the Mass Effect sized one now.
Wotc basically pissed on them
I should know, I worked for wotc, was laid off in december and now work for larian
Basically get fricked wotc
Swen literally just grew tired of BG3. He never mentions it when he isn't accepting an award. People who are Larian fans and not DnD tourists should be grateful because they said the 5E system was holding them back.
>He never mentions it when he isn't accepting an award.
He's not allowed to when the licensing fees for his Tencent handlers are already in excess of $90 Million and untold losses. Every word is probably $10K more in the hole for a subpar crpg of all things to shill lmao
Elden Ring is also funded by Tencent btw
Good luck with their sub 7% stake in a xenophobic publicly traded japanese company that's one of multiple funders of From. I'm sure making sure Malenia's deathrattle wasn't "Taiwan...is an independent country." was worth.
Whatever dividends in change received they threw at WotC for the D&D license, then promptly lost in botting and shilling. gg
>7%
16.25% btw. I reckon they'll acquire more as well because apparently Kadokawa are in bed with Tencent
>16.25% btw.
Incorrect. Recheck your sources.
Just checked, it's 16.25%. I reckon they'll acquire more as well. Also Snoy owns 15%? kek
Oh shi-
Debunked months ago
TGAs (Sponsored by West Taiwan)
Every major category was awarded to a CCP-backed game publishing entity.
Tencent is also on the awards advisory panel for every mainstream Western awards production:
https://thegameawards.com/about
This effectively invalidates all game awards as genuine, moving forward:
>Baldur’s Gate 3
>Game of the Year
>Best Peformance
>RPG
>Multiplayer (actually a co-op game)
>Community "Support" (???)
>Players’ Voice
Tencent-Larian
https://ie.globaldatabase.com/company/larian-group-holdings-limited
>Alan Wake 2
>Best Game Direction
>Narrative
>Art Direction
https://investors.remedygames.com/announcements/remedy-entertainment-plc-tencent-holdings-limiteds-shareholding-in-remedy-has-gone-above-the-5-percent-threshold/
https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/11/28/tencent-increases-its-stake-in-remedy-entertainment
>Honkai Star Rail
>Best Mobile
https://www.world-today-news.com/mihoyo-officially-joins-the-chinese-communist-party-how-does-it-affect-genshin-impact-and-other-games/
>Armored Core VI
>Action
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-deals/Tencent-to-invest-264m-in-Japanese-publisher-Kadokawa
>Valorant
>Esports
https://web.archive.org/web/20230607222908/https://kotaku.com/valorant-twitch-streamers-are-gaming-the-system-with-24-1843048097
>Pity awards to non-Tencent titles
>Aonuma rushed off stage
Nintendo was only allowed a little bit of spotlight, given Tencent also owns their entire West Taiwan operation:
https://www.tencent.com/en-us/articles/2200934.html
>TGAs (Sponsored by West Taiwan)
>Every major category was awarded to a CCP-backed game publishing entity.
Oh shi-
>proves the point
good job shill *pat* *pat* go ask your manager what you just typed. the one that can read english.
Stop bumping the thread
Shills want a thread,shills get a thread.
Let's have a nice on-topic educational discussion about how Larian went from niche crpg to hostile takeover vector for Tencent that failed spectacularly, and took and otherwise shitty d&d crpg down with it.
So who's paying you to schizo spam in every BG3 thread?
>the shills want to know more about why they can't shill
lmfao
>sixjoy
>HK subsidiary
worthless after the real estate crunch, but if you dig deep enough it probably is in excess of 25% from subsidiaries. Filthy Tencent also does the same with palworld.
Tencent owns a large stake in Fromsoft. It's pretty egregious
Well, it's either you have no idea how investment companies or even specifically Tencent themselves work and have dedicated months of sleepless nights to showing how ignorant you are, or you're being paid to do this. The latter is preferable.
Why would someone go on the internet and lie?
He's a bot, stop feeding him inputs
There are no bots on Ganker. I've been on here long enough to see each and every one of them frick up and accidentally reply to the wrong person or type a "v" instead of copying and pasting. Every single 'bot' post is a real person with no life.
So you have no life? Nice self own.
Game knows game.
He's functionally no different from a bot. He's reduced himself to a shitposting algorithm
Real homie. The more you realise this about Ganker the more you realise it about other sites too. Some fricking insane people out there.
Evey time you lose an argument you start off wit
>You nave no idea how...
When the obvious reality is you have no fricking idea what you're talking about and need to stop replying. I don't care if Tencent pays you to or not. Just sit at the keyboard and pretend you're typing.
brah, what is there to get in your argument? assuming he's right, from has a stake from tencent and buys awards. assuming he's wrong. from has a stake from tencent and buys awards. you're not actually proving nothing.
Probably Nintendo and Shigeru Miyamoto
Stop bumping the thread. You're unintentionally shilling for Larian by making Larian-haters look insane
Schizobros I don't feel so good..
The guys at WoTC who helped them get the license in the first place were fired months ago.
Actually all of those that hired larian stayed (those were the money grubbers)
The devs at wotc that helped work on the lore world and the dnd aspects were laid off
Then larian hired them
I don't think they're making another Divinity game either. They're working on two games and it sounds like the big one will be a space RPG. It makes sense to capitalize on this level of success to make an original IP where you don't have to split the earnings with a licensing company.
Nightmare project, they are glad to be rid of it.
Game hard? Not good at these games, always build wrong.
That is kinda weird. I fully expected a DE like every other Larian game. But maybe they just don't want to keep developing for an IP that isn't even really theirs.
Makes way more sense to ride the hype of GOTY (arguably GOTD) to funnel people into your own original IP rather than pitting money in WOTC israelites’ pockets.
What sci-fi IP would you guys like to see Larian get their hands on? Star Wars? 40k? Or would you prefer their own original IP?
I'd prefer their own so they can make a combat system and setting that work well with each other. I want more environmental stuff like in DOS and interactive mechanics like in BG3.
Original IP. Dark space opera, similar to Mass Effect
Are you so poor and lacking in sales you have to poor the niche audience on Ganker to market test for you, swen?
Hi, Swen here. We're not lacking in sales, but we would like our new game to meet the expectations of our loyal fans.
>all 2 schizos and 3 shitposters present
yeah, good luck with your next sales goals
Hi, Swen here again. Thanks for the well wishes, but we don't need them.
I'm sure you don't. Hopefully it didn't involve selling even more of your company to Tencent.
Swen here again. Don't worry, it didn't.
At least reduce their number of preferred shares, goddamn man. You and your wife have to eat.
Swen here. I appreciate the concern, but it's not about living a luxurious lifestyle for me.
>twittergay doesn't know about the combat log
lol
>needs to read 500 hundred pages to undestand basic dice based RNG
Why xitters are so moronic?
Original, which is what they said they would do. I'm curious how they would approach sci-fi. That said, the evidence that they are doing a sci-fi game as far as I have seen is extremely weak. All of this is supposition from the fact that Swen set his location on Twitter to "space"
Should I play it then or wait for mods?
Who would you say is more unhinged: larian hater schizo, barry from final fantasy threads, or fire emblem schizo?
Fabio dwarfed them all, though the Larian schizo is up there. Let's see if he's still doing the same thing next year.
The fire emblem one because he just spams scat while being mad at some specific Russian guy, the other two at least think they have a point somewhere.
Hi, Swen here again, again. I'm glad to work with Tencent, I hope I can make a CRPG that the Chinese will love.
That's easy. Just add anime girls and dog eating.
Swen, if you want to appeal to the Chinese, then don't put nogs in your game. You severely fricked this up last time.
Larian is a household name now. Whatever they do, they WILL have millions of people buy their new game day 1. They don't need BG, D&D, or WotC anymore.
It's a TIkTok game. Nobody actually bought it who wasn't paid to
>household name
It's a household name in someone's house. somewhere in Shenzen probably. With LOTS of Cellphones in it.
I genuinely feel bad for Larischizo. He keeps making threads and keeps having a harder time keeping up in them.
no /tg/ vidya will ever be successful my guy. let it go.
now do GTA6.
Don't you know BG3 didn't sell, a schizo on Ganker said so.
reminder, this is the schizo that spergs out in these threads
Reminder the only schizo sperg out was yours when you got reverse baited in your own Witcher thread
>discord kiddies
>post something irrelevant
>in an opposite thread
>discord makes a meme image to be epic 4chinnerz
No
I will reinstall next patch. Apparently they're fixing the evil endings.
Is this game actually good? Threads never discuss that. I've been looking for some sort of medieval rpg style game to play. I started replaying Dragon Age Origins and it's not as good as I remember it being so I want something better. Trying to decide between balders gate or Witcher 3. Haven't played either and have heard good things about the Witcher but I haven't heard much of anything gameplay wise about balders gate
Yes, it's a good cRPG if you're into that sort of thing. You can't discuss it here because threads are immediately derailed by shitposters.
Owlcat won
Owlcat are even more woke than Larian but unlike them they can't even make a good game
Won what? They're not going to see a license from a western IP for the remainder of their lifetimes, let alone D&D.
Larian is a company from some literal who European country. They don't care
Why is Hasbro so fricking moronic bros
>despite WotC being buttholes or whatever no one gives a frick about Divinity or whatever
Learn grammar or whatever
Bunp
The IP owner being an butthole is a huge barrier for any creative work.
Also, the people that they worked with from wotc were removed/quit anyway, so wotc basically burned their bridge themselves.
Also also, while BG3 got more exposure, the Divinity series was what got them that deal in the first place, and anecdotally, my friends I played with would rather play DOS2 again than BG3.
>wanting DLC
Why would you ever ask for this?
>Oh yes, devs please milk me a bit more.
We already know they are working on more games, so I do not care about them 'abandoning' a completed game.
Story-driven RPGs are not live service games, nor should they be.
At this point I'm convinced that the schizo just posts this OP picture so he can reply to himself for 20 posts.
Dude it’s wild. Select all the posts you think are his and you’ll get like 4 or 5 posters across dozens.
Dude is completely nuts and has entire conversations with himself.
>came, made a great game, left
Perfectly fine, they probably want to move on.
It's not strange. They are taking the knowledge and tools they learned and built from this project and making their own game, and cutting out WOTC/Hasbro. And millions will buy it.
Hasbro is a broken company kept afloat by magic the gathering. After the success of bg3 they don't care about quality, they just want to pump shovelware to make money. Get ready for yearly baldur's gate games.
>find huge success by making D&D game, including a sequel to Baldur's Gate
>stop making Dungeon & Dragon games after becoming most popular CRPG developer
>focus on original IP rather than on sucking up to Wizards of the Coast
>pic related
CCP official here. All your games are belong to us. Please report to your nearby social credit office for express organ donation.
DoS2 > BG3
Sorry but it is just the truth.
DoS2 has better systems and will only be better in DoS3.