2y ago

A Perfect Storm - what a crock of shit

This is what I am hearing endlessly about why Baldur's Gate 3 is a success. I say that's a crock of shit sold by bad companies and developers and an insult to Larians hard work.

These are the things for my opinion:

They have 20 years of experience making CRPGS with the Divinity series
They do Early Access to test and perfect their systems
The listen to customer feedback and distill the good from the bad, ending up with a better product
They don't insult their customers and respect them
No microtransactions or Day 1 DLC, or mention of upcoming DLC and Season Pass
They hire Writers, Composers and Developers BASED ON MERIT!
You can see the love they put in the games from the Panels from Hell and social media

I am sure there are many more things that add to their success but random chance and luck is not the reason; hard work, dedication and good management is!

Just a little rant and pet peave I wanted to get off my chest.

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You're right.
This reminds me of when people say "you're so talented at X"
Like no. It was a shit ton of practice and hardwork that developed that skill.
- Unrelated to gaming but I have similar thing people tell me in regards to my work. I had a very decent job and now own a company or two doing software development and the most common thing people tell me is I was lucky to find a good job that started it all. No motherfucker I worked my ass off, didn't have a GF until age of 20 and spent countless nights working while others were out getting shitfaced.
- Yeah, it negates the effort the person put it. This is the reason people tend to dislike the Mary-Sue characters of "modern movies".
I think we know what OP thinks about Affirmative Action being overturned by the Supreme Court.
- yep - came here to see Larian praise, stepped in the usual conservative dog shit
  oh well
Are you referring to Deadlic, who mostly relied on new people and interns, with the second to last point?
- No just the industry at large with their "Quota" hiring policies and other such crap.
  EDIT: For those doing the downvoting.... you don't improve your civilization by bringing it down to the lowest level, you try raise the lower level up. "Quotas" bring things down being you cannot use the best people. "Quotas" are the easy path for virtue signaling and you end up worse for it. Proper education and training is the only way to improve things, but that takes time and money.
  
  This viewpoint is so disconnected from the actual reality that it's disingenuous at best. I have worked in the games industry for nearly 20 years working with AAA and small teams. I have never felt like I've hired someone, or have had someone on my team who didn't earn their position through talent and passion. You're making up some political reality that does not exist, and being angry at something that is not happening just to weave some weird narrative that I feel is about 5 seconds from you simply saying "go woke, go broke".
  It is important that you realize that diverse viewpoints makes games better, and that has to come into consideration for teams as well! More diverse viewpoints on your team will make a better RPG! Yes, you obviously need passionate and talented people, that goes without saying. But to make the best games, you need a diverse team.
  
  there is no evidence to suggest that Larian doesn't value diversity in their hiring process, so your point is moot
  quotas demonstrably work. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizelting/2022/09/22/stop-saying-quotas-dont-work-because-they-demonstrably-do/?sh=24a840845b9c
  you seem to want to bring conservative political talking points to a baldurs gate forum. Why? Please stop.
  
  What a weird conclusion to draw, when you have so many reasons to attribute their success to already. What exactly do you know about their hiring processes? Do you have any sources?
Speaking nothing but truths
Are you saying that Larian doesn’t let their diversity and inclusion department run their actual business?
- What a concept!
  PS. For those downvoting the previous comment... Obvious sarcasm is obvious.
  
  Except that that is not obvious sarcasm but the normalisation of anti diversity talk.
  The more important talking point would be, that Larian does not put short term business measures clad in „pseudo science“ before their product related decisions. Otherwise we would have no mod support, the wizard class would be the first dlc and the complete set of speech would only be available for people with a season pass.

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