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Baldur's Gate 3 is defying game industry trend-chasers — and is being rewarded for doing so | Windows Central (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Call_Me_Maple 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People are just tired of the anti-consumer bullshit and it shows. I'm glad Larian are thinking ahead instead of grabbing the cash now and running unlike most modern day triple A developers.

Really shows that they care for the games that they make and the audience they've amassed.

Hopefully this helps kill MTX, lootboxes and Battlepasses.

[–] rhokwar 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate MTX, lootboxes, and battle passes, but I cannot imagine that they'll go away unless it's to replace them with something even worse.

[–] kadu 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Those "games" on Nintendo Switch that are just a license to access a cloud streaming version of the title is, in my opinion, a much worse issue than MTX.

In fact, one of them was taken offline - the Switch is still active, which means there are people who paid full price for a singleplayer game and it no longer exists.

[–] rhokwar 8 points 1 year ago

Oh wow I didn't even know that was a thing. Yeah you're right that does sound worse.

[–] Call_Me_Maple 5 points 1 year ago

Evil is evil. Greater, lesser, middling. If I had to choose I'd rather not choose at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MTX is here to stay, the numbers speak for themselves. It's unfortunate, but unless people stop buying them (they won't) they aren't going anywhere.

[–] Call_Me_Maple 1 points 1 year ago

At least we still have developers willing to go against the norm.