Baldur’s Gate 3 has made bank for Hasbro, significantly contributing to a 40 percent increase in digital revenue for the company.
I’m curious to see if other CRPGs also had big revenue increases from BG3’s success. After beating it I’ve bought Divinity Original Sin 2, Disco Elysium, Pathfinder WotR, and Pillars of Eternity II so far. I had never paid attention to the genre before and now I am deep into it.
It sucks, because I want to buy this game, but I refuse to give WotC/Hasbro money, and I don’t want to pirate it because I want to support Larian.
It really sucks.Watch them milk it to death, thereby ruining the franchise
I don’t think they really can. Larian has creative control over the project itself, Hasbro can’t do much beyond input regarding DnD-specific things. Hasbro can try to milk DnD (as they have been doing), but this won’t affect BG3.
Who has merchandising rights though? Who’s going to be pumping out Astarian FunkoPop knockoffs for the next several years?
Sometimes good things are just good things my man.
“We own something popular and profitable with a large userbase that hasn’t had every penny milked from it? Hold my beer.”
- Hasbro
“I hate when companies make money. Like when they licensed out this balls-out awesome video game”
I hope the lesson they take is “selling complete games with no online bull or micro transactions is popular and profitable”
The lesson they’ll actually take is “money? MONEY!! MONEEEEEYYYYYYY!!!”
I’m hoping a lesson they take is “let Larian make BG4” as well.
Wait, you mean if it is good and worth the money it sells and if it is a cheap worthless cash grab it does not??? Someone call Corporate!
Corporate isn’t going to take away the lessons we might hope. Folks at corporate at going to ask things like, “how much money was left on the table?” They can only fuck things up through paying attention.
Let’s not forget it has no DRM either. AAA studios told us that no game can do well without DRM
I didn’t realise Hasbro were the publisher, now I feel a little dirty. Those bastards ruined Super Soaker.
Hasbro owns wizards of the coast, which is the owner of the D&D trademark.
They didn’t publish it, but they licensed the DnD brand to Larian
