Height: 5'1 Endurance: 2 Natured: Good Science: High Ability to defend herself: low Wishing she was back in the: NCR Ain't that a kick in the: Head

Heavenly Monroe

she is so tired

Don’t worry my potato, we will definitely see the sea.

echo's mushroom zombies are my emotional support characters now

yours and mine both buddy

Araj Oblodra and I will always be her prize bleeder

art by @BottlngSunshine

can you explain what happened with larian and hasbro? why are the next 5 years going to be so bad?

So, Larian had to purchase from Hasbro/WotC the usage rights for the Forgotten Realms setting and the D&D 5e systems, among other things, to make Baldur's Gate 3. Larian self-published the game; it was not published by Hasbro or Wizards of the Coast.

However, they still had folks from the WotC D&D team help them with the integration of a setting they did not own. Having folks on hand to provide visual reference for artists designing characters, items, and architecture, having lore bible folks checking the story and dialogue for lore consistency, having rules designers help to change the 5e rules for the reality of it being a video game and not live tabletop; that sort of thing.

Thing is, since then, Hasbro has let every single one of the WotC employees Larian worked with (with whom they had a great time, by all accounts) go in their recent downsizing layoffs.

Larian owner, Swen Vicke, has been outspoken about the video game industry's quarterly profit mindset and how it has been ruining the industry. These downsizing layoffs are emblematic of this toxic business structure; by nixing employees, you can claim to your all-powerful shareholders that you got a bigger profit than you would have otherwise! Because god help you if you have to tell the shareholders that you didn't double your fucking profit margins from the previous quarter. Don't worry about how you just let all your veteran talent go, I'm sure that won't have any effects down the line.

Recent news has confirmed that Baldur's Gate 3 will not be receiving any DLC, despite previous statements that the concept was being looked at. It will not get any expansions like BG games before it did. It will not be getting a sequel from Larian. It will not be getting any expanded content outside of further updates and patches. Big extra content like that requires the aforementioned involvement from the WotC team; the team that has since been entirely fired.

Larian, as a company that generally eschews firing people for bullshit reasons and don't adhere as much to the bean counting mindset, found this firing of people to be horrifyingly unethical, as many of its staff and ownership have publicly stated. This almost certainly had something to do with the previously mentioned 'no DLC/sequels' announcement. Why would you want to work with a company that treats its people like that?

The '5 years' statement I stated was just a rough estimate. Hasbro has already started up on publishing their own video game titles in-house without the aid of studios like Larian, and 5 years is a pretty good window for titles like that to be released in the future. And judging by how their previous titles from a previous effort (bad mobile games, bad steam games) were received, I don't see any reasons to believe that this push would be different.

Had they just not fired people to please a bunch of asshole suits from some holding company doing fuck-all but sitting in meeting rooms to collect money, they'd likely have had a better chance at working with Larian on more stuff for BG3, more Forgotten Realms stuff in the future, and just generally had more chances for quality products made by a passionate and proven team.

tl;dr; Hasbro fired all their people who worked with Larian, and Larian rightly saw this as a dick move.

THAT makes him THE BEST

mitsuru gaming

why githyanki words have so many apostrophes

writing tip #919:

apostrophes are really the tears of the words you horrifically merged together. there are no right or wrong places to put apostrophes. there is only pain

Made Lann in the BG3 character editor( and a little bit of photoshop)

the best part of Earthbound is when six cops assault a teenager for asking why the road is closed

and this one even chickens out

A++ vision of america. Shigesato Itoi said acab

diversity loss! without orin, all the main antagonists are boring men

real feminists kill orin last✊

yeah , don't know if anyone notice it but I used the face from the spongebob meme xD

Needed something low stress so I ref’ed a pic of Kathony from season three promos, put Ros in Gale’s jimjams because I’ve seen some cute art of Galemancers dressed thusly, and messy hair Gale lives in my head rent-free

We all know Scratch is the best boy 😁 (sorry Gale)