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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 87 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Hasbro is a terribly run company which is currently in the process of butchering the couple golden geese it has.

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

They are the reason wotc cancelled all those in development d&d games a year and a half ago. All wotc published games were cancelled because they're CEO passed away and they scrambled to find a new one. This new CEO saw all these in development games and cancelled them in an attempt to save money, and with the dark alliance game released the year before, they felt there was no recouping development costs.

Overall a huge bummer. I would have liked to play an immersive sim d&d game.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'd like to live in the world where multiple devs are making D&D games in Larian's engine the way there were a handful of Infinity Engine games 20 years ago. Replaying BG3 is great, but it would be nice to have new areas, characters, and calls to action while still having the freedom to just "verb a noun" the way you can in BG3.

[–] Kaldo@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

I doubt they would sell the engine but it would be nice if we had good modding tools and map editors like in NWN for example, custom maps and campaigns could keep bg3 alive for a long time - especially considering that they have no plans for expansions afaik

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All those games were produced by BioWare over the course of a decade. BG3 is only a couple months old.

A sequel wouldn’t take as long to develop now that they have the engine and with the success of BG3, I think we’ll get another.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

There were a couple of games from Black Isle back then too. That's the sort of deal I'd like to see, but I also don't expect it to happen.

[–] yesdogishere@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Neverwinter Nights from 2002 is still the best DnD mmo for me.

[–] TommySalami@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

This, the OGL, the Pinkerton incident, the continued decline in quality products. Talk about squandering the opportunity of a lifetime with the renaissance of D&D.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, had a friend who was an intern project manager at Hasbro and I've only heard bad things about them.