Larian Bows Out, Hasbro Swoops In
WotC have decided that maybe there is something to this whole D&D computer game market and are looking to get in on the profits after the stellar success of Baldurs Gate 3. Hasbro and WotC are tossing over $1 billion to the four video game studios that Hasbro owns to start development of D&D games on the PC. It might not be Baldurs Gate 4, but it will at least be based on the gaming system. Then again, Hasbro and WotC have a history of cancelling games, so we might only get some screenshots before hearing bad news.
The modding community should be aware that WotC attempted to shift from the popular version of their Open Game License which allowed you to create your own scenarios without having to pay them for the privileged. The huge outcry lead to them abandoning it in favour of the new System Reference Document 5.1 which restored many of the rights removed in OGL 1.1. While that was well received, it didn’t stop them from sending the Pinkerton agency after a YouTuber that was accidentally sent some unreleased products.
The chances of them attempting something similar with those trying to mod these games, assuming they are ever released, is definitely not zero.
The unsurprising news is that Hasbro reckons there’s still something in this whole Dungeons & Dragons thing - something for which the rapturous success of Baldur’s Gate 3, both critical and commercial, provides solid evidence.
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New D&D games? sounds good!
… and it gets released and then it’s just like all of the other “live-service” crap that’s been sh!t out. Who am I kidding, I have no high hopes and the “sounds good!” was really a sarcastic remark of sadness
I feel you.