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Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast have "about 40" video game projects in the works (www.gamefile.news)
submitted 1 year ago by Ashtear@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world
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If there's that many, one of them better damn well be another Shandalar game.

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Worth noting that BG3 was Larian‘s effort through and through. They took the initiative and asked for permission from Bioware to make another Baldur‘s Gate game and as far as I know that wasn‘t even the first time they asked. So finally after they got permission, they also had to compensate Bioware and WotC generously for the use of their IPs. It‘s kind of a rights nightmare where Larian took several big risks while WotC could just lean back and watch. And of course after BG3’s massive success, Hasbro think they struck gold when their own official DnD game is the complete opposite of BG3 in terms of monetization, popularity and critical acclaim.

So, everything considered we shouldn‘t expect greatness from this. Honestly I would be surprised if we ever actually get official announcements with working titles from half of these games before they get shut down early in production and I would be more surprised to see even a quarter of them come to life.

[–] Aielman15@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually expect them to take the Warhammer approach. Saturate the market with so many titles that no matter what, the brand name will be on the homepage of everyone. Doesn't matter if half those titles suck.

[–] turddle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Would be a miracle if they even come close to that kind of success rate. While half those warhammer games do kinda suck. That other half, well, doesn’t haha.

20 good DnD games would be fantastic but I’m not even sure they know how to make one with the way they seem to be going at it (not counting BG3 as theirs, that was all Larian).

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