People buy tokens to pay for boosting services. That’s probably the only reason tho.
Yea, but so what if BG3 is a 10/10? 9/10s are also good enough to buy and likely make a company more money.
The industry isn’t going to be shaken up just because a good game came out. Breath of the Wild was a game changer but nothing changed since then either.
Much smaller studios have the ability to release things in much better quality than massive corporations it seems. And all without milking their playerbase dry at the same time 
This is the ultimate reality people aren’t understanding.
It has nothing to do with devs lacking passion or them being greedy, it’s placating the management team and shareholders whom make the actual decisions.
Good luck convincing EA to let you take 6 years to develop a game.
Yep, cut costs, streamline development, use surefire formats that you can repeat over and over, and then attach MTX to it. To heck with quality!
Oh and make it look graphically pretty to drown out the issues. Not to mention all the corporate politics in the workplace and those weird performance reviews and scoring systems they seem to do.
Hello, I see you replied to the thread. Haha, I’m pretty sure the shareholders didn’t tell the Diablo 4 devs to develop the game where extra stash tabs would make their servers ignite into a blaze of death and destruction, especially when it’s the same exact mistake they originally did with Diablo 3, haha!
Both Dragonage 4 and Mass Effect 4 have been in development for longer than 6 years, haha!
Thanks for your post and have a great day!
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Management and shareholders will absolutely tell a studio to release a game with bugs like that.
Somehow I doubt they’d be cool with having to completely remake D4 just so they can add some extra stashes.
Yeah turn based dice games are the same as open world mmorpgs with action combat lol.
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Pressing tab and spamming 4 buttons isn’t really “action combat”
This mentality is why ive started gravitating back to single player games the last few years. The obsession with pay2win and the greed in general is really dragging the entire mmo genre down
Funny coming from them with them tryna pass Divinity Original Sin 3 off as Baldur’s Gate 3 lmaooo
BG3 is a much better game than DoS.
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stop garmucking. turn based dice rolling is not tab targeting button clicking real time combat. nice try.
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microtransactions for cosmetics is not pay to win. greed sure pay to win no.
You’re confusing D4 with the Hades project, which likely became Diablo: Immortal, seeing as the Hades project was developed alongside D3. In an interview, Ybarra stated D4 development was around 6 years.
Also, there was an attempt to make BG3 in 2003. It bankrupted the company and stalled the project until Larian was brought on and acquired the rights. BG fans have been waiting 20 years for their sequel.
Larions BG3 is 100% unrelated to the attempt to make BG3 in 2003. That was being made by Black Isle, who were responsible for BG1 and BG2. Larion has wanted to make BG3 for quite some time, but their initial request for the rights in 2014, but was turned down as they were considered too new and inexperienced. They impressed Wizards of the Coast in 2017 with Divine Original Sin 2 and were then offered the rights to make BG3, at which point, while wrapping up production of DOS2, they sent a small team to draft up plans for their vision of BG3 to present to WotC.
So BG3 has only had about 6 years of development time total. Given it is completely unrelated to Black Isles BG3, bringing that up is irrelevant. Now… compare BG3 6 years of development with Diablo 4 6 years of development…
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Nothing you just wrote or linked refutes what I said. All you did was reiterate what I stated with specifics.
Alright, so what point were you trying to make with the 2003 Black Isles BG3 reference?
That BG3 went through development hell and Larian was able to deliver a sequel to fans after 20 years, 14 of which were limbo. Why are you so defensive about facts being stated?
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The issue is all of blizzards newer games crash and burn compared to wow, but they still need to pay top dollar to produce them. That’s what happens when you let sjwtards take over your company.
These modern devs literally removed and renamed items/achievements in classic for being “misogynist” and act like they are produxijg value. Like yeah saying my sack is gigantique om an mmo is really harming people smh
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