The creators of Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios, founded in 1996 by Swen Vincke, are renowned for their innovative role-playing games with deep storytelling and engaging interactivity. Their “Divinity” series, including “Divinity: Original Sin” and “Divinity: Original Sin 2“, have been praised for their captivating worlds, characters, and strategic combat systems, placing players at the heart of the gaming experience.
Swen Vincke Ends the Baldur’s Gate 3 Project
Baldur’s Gate 3, developed by Larian Studios, is the highly anticipated sequel to the legendary Baldur’s Gate series, known for its epic storytelling and intricate role-playing elements. The game continues the tradition of deep interactivity, transporting players to the captivating Forgotten Realms universe. With impressive graphics, dynamic combat, and rich dialogue, Baldur’s Gate 3 has generated significant excitement among both established and new fans of role-playing games.
Larian Studios achieved massive success with Baldur’s Gate 3, with many awards and millions of copies sold, firmly establishing the company on the map.
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Despite the success, during a talk at the Game Developers Conference, studio head Swen Vincke announced that Larian has no plans to continue with the role-playing series. According to Vincke, there will be no expansions, add-ons, or sequels to the critically acclaimed game.
A spokesperson confirmed via the news outlet Kotaku that Vincke’s statement was not just talk.
I told you at the beginning that we were a company of big ideas. We are not a company that’s made to create DLCs [or] expansions. We tried that actually, a few times, and it failed every single time. It’s not our thing. Life is too short, our ambitions are very large. And so, like Gustav [the codename for BG3, taken from Swen’s dog who recently passed away], Baldur’s Gate will always have a warm spot in our hearts. We’ll forever be proud of it, but we’re not going to continue in it.
We’re not going to make new expansions, which everybody is expecting us to do. We’re not going to make Baldur’s Gate 4, which everybody is expecting us to do. We’re going to move on. We’re going to move away from D&D, and we’re going to start making a new thing. I’m saying it here because I have a forum and [we’re getting] bombarded by people that expect us to do these things, but that’s not for us. It’s going to be up to Wizards of the Coast, because it’s their IP, to find somebody to take over the torch. We think we did our job and so, for us, it’s time to get a new puppy.
Swen Vincke – Larian Studios
Stepping down at the peak might be the most remarkable move we’ll see from Larian Studios in the future. Swen Vincke, with nerves of steel, makes this decision, but as he mentioned, they tried expansion packs before and realized it wasn’t their thing.
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We have no information on what Larian Studios’ next project will be, but what we can be sure of is that the next project will meet the quality we expect from the company and Swen Vincke. He also mentioned that the studio desires a somewhat less ambitious project than Baldur’s Gate 3.
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