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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Baldur's Gate 3 Caused A 40 Percent Rise In Digital Revenue For Hasbro (www.thegamer.com)

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Baldur's Gate 3 has made bank for Hasbro, significantly contributing to a 40 percent increase in digital revenue for the company.

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[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 100 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Wait, you mean if it is good and worth the money it sells and if it is a cheap worthless cash grab it does not????? Someone call Corporate!

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Let's not forget it has no DRM either. AAA studios told us that no game can do well without DRM

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The funny thing is I (and probably many others) didn’t even consider pirating it. It had great reviews and was readily available pretty much everywhere without any obvious drawbacks. So I spent full price for it.

My point; DRM doesn’t matter if you produce and sell your game in a consumer friendly way.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Not to mention that full price was up to 20 bucks cheaper than other new releases.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

No regional pricing tho so I will wait for a sale

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Corporate isn't going to take away the lessons we might hope. Folks at corporate at going to ask things like, "how much money was left on the table?" They can only fuck things up through paying attention.

[–] Wootz@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The takeaways that will make it to the steering group PowerPoint:

VideoGames based on our IP sell better than expected.
Sales of our other digital products follow suit
Larian Studios did this with minimal oversight
No reason to assume any and all VideoGame products based on other IPs would not follow similar pattern
Call to action: Fund additional Hasbro IP based VideoGames.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

You know corporate will assume the opposite on all points though

[–] time_lord@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gve me a slay the spire style mtg and I'd be all over it.

[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Don't give me hope. I still play Shandalar from time to time.

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 3 points 10 months ago

Kill the p2w whales and you kill shit games