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Baldur’s Gate 3 is Causing Some Developers to Panic
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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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Click baiting video. Other devs don't care. As long as they can make money pumping out mediocre games then they will continue to do so. Acting like this is the first good game to come out in a decade or something.
DEVs do care. As a developer working on something you want to be proud of it. Publishers do not care.
The individuals working on the game might care.
The managers who make the decisions don't. Doesn't matter if they are a publisher or the development company itself. It's a bit blurry these days anyway, what with how easy it is to self publish and how many publishers have their own internal development studios.
The managers who make the decisions is also unclear as power differs on the company. They could care all the way up to the CEO but if the CEO puts an unrealistic deadline, the game has an unrealistic deadline
Looking at how many games have stood in Dragon Age: Origins' shadow over the past decade, I get the sense that lots of studios wanted to create the true spiritual successor but couldn't come up with the resources to do so.
Or if not lacking resources, definitely lacking the creative freedom.