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Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss

www.ign.com Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss - IGN

In a new interview with IGN, Larian Studios boss Swen Vincke responded to questions about Baldur's Gate 3 being on Xbox Game Pass, explaining why the best RPG of 2023 won't be on Microsoft's subscription service anytime soon.

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Acceptable. It is a game worth owning outright in itself.

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- "Owning." Unless you purchased a physical copy.
  
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  It launches without Steam running. Steam is required to download it but otherwise it's DRM free.
  
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Thought it was weird to release brand new games straight to gamepass to begin with

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- game pass is for forever alphas and betas. but people keep slurping down the shit because "i get to try it before i buy it" when they already are paying a subscription for unfinished games.
  
  it goes without saying the developers of BG3 think better of their work and themselves than to whore out to shame pass.
  
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  What are you even talking about? As far as I can tell, the vast majority of the games provided are complete, and also a lot of them a frankly great.
  
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  Brain dead take
  
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Good. Fuck subscriptions.

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"I know what I got"

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I mean MS would have to shell out bookoo bucks for this to come to GamePass anytime soon. Probably a year or two down the line. Regardless Larian isn’t going to say they’re putting it on GP as it would slow down sales on the platform during the holidays.

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- what is a ' bookoo buck ' ?
  
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  beaucoup?
  
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  It’s an American saying, basically meaning a lot of money in this case. You can use bookoo to mean a lot of any thing really.
  
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  "Bookoo", derived from the French Bucchane, for smoked meat; this is also the origin of the word "buccaneer", as they generally live in it while at sea.
  
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Makes sense, I love GamePass for titles without significant replay value anything else is a value-add. BG3 is hugely replayable.

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Brain dead take

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