Baldur’s Gate 3 Boss Says Making DLCs For Games Is Boring And Without Passion

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The Team Is Happier Not Making DLCs!

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  • Swen Vincke, the director of Baldur’s Gate 3, has called making DLCs boring.
  • The Larian CEO said the practice has no passion behind it, and his team is happier this way.
  • Vincke stated that Larian prefers to update games through patches instead.

Calling Baldur’s Gate 3 one of the biggest games of this decade isn’t a stretch of any kind, considering its sales and universal positive reception. To put the game’s success into context, it won so many awards that it disrupted developer Larian’s work at the studio.

However, unlike most successful games of its kind, the developer has not milked Baldur’s Gate 3 by making DLCs that many fans wanted. In a new interview, the game’s director has revealed why this is the case.

Why it matters: Studios choosing to work on new projects instead of game expansions is a positive change.

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Baldur’s Gate 3 has been updated through several patches.

While talking to GameSpot, Swen Vincke, the CEO of Larian and the RPG’s director, stated that the studio is not in the DLC business. Vincke further expanded on this by saying he prefers to update games through patches and other similar changes, keeping the experience fresh for players.

The Larian CEO also called the very act of making a DLC boring, saying it has no passion behind it, and his team is happier not making such expansions for games. Hence, in a moment of reflection, the studio figured out this is not what they want to do with their titles.

People said ‘DLC this’ and ‘DLC that,’ and we said we’d make DLC, but then, when we had a moment to think, we asked ourselves, ‘What are we doing?’

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Sold Millions of Copies In 2023 And 2024

Even without a DLC, Baldur’s Gate 3 has been constantly updated through patches and updates, with the most recent one adding a photo mode among a myriad of other features, including new subclasses. This “Final Patch” also led to a resurgence in the game’s player count on Steam.

Considering how the game sold 10 million copies in 2023 and was still among the best-selling paid titles on Steam the next year, Larian clearly knows what it’s doing.

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