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While Baldur's Gate 3 is being widely celebrated by fans and developers alike, some are panicking that this could set new expectations from fans. Good.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

OMG OMG OMG!!! The peasants will expect quality now! We're doomed! Doomed!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not only quality, but they'll also expect a released game to be finished at launch!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In my area of business, 'being finished" is a part of "quality".

I.e., something that's unfinished, cannot be said to have high quality

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

…from a developer that disavows micro transactions!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

... proceeds with another yearly installment of game X that could have been released as DLC, but instead built it as "a new game", selling at 1 cent per bug.

[–] Nioxic 3 points 1 year ago

Lets be honest.. most studios and individual devs wanna make awesome games.

A lot are just forced to release at a certain (bad) time due to shareholders etc