Larian boss Swen Vincke said the studio’s ambitions are too big, and life is too short, to be making Baldur’s Gate 3 expansions.
Recently speaking at GDC, Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke announced that Larian is moving away from developing games in the D&D universe, and won’t be developing DLC for Baldur’s Gate 3
“We are a company of big ideas. We are not a company that’s made to create DLCs or expansions, We tried that actually, a few times. It failed every single time. It’s not our thing. Life is too short. Our ambitions are very large.” Vincke said
“Baldur’s Gate will always have a warm spot in our heart. We’ll forever be proud of it but we’re not going to continue in it. We’re not going to make new expansions which everybody is expecting. We’re not going to make Baldur’s Gate 4 which everybody is expecting us to do. We’re going to move on. We’re going to move away from D&D and we’re going to start making a new thing.”
This isn’t to say that the Baldur’s Gate saga is over: No doubt inspired by the runaway success of Baldur’s Gate 3, Wizards of the Coast parent company Hasbro recently hinted that more D&D video games are on the way, and earlier this month announced a new survival-life sim game set in the Forgotten Realms being made by Gameloft, the studio behind Disney Dreamlight Valley.
And there will surely be further updates and patches for Baldur’s Gate 3—Larian is pretty good with that sort of thing.
But beyond that, it’s not Larian’s problem anymore. “It’s going to be up to Wizards of the Coast because it’s their IP, to find somebody to take over the torch,”
Over on X he did say that everyone should not blame Hasbro/WOTC
Reading the reddit threads, I would like to clear up something. WOTC is not to blame for us taking a different direction. On the contrary, they really did their best and have been a great licensor for us, letting us do our thing. This is because it's what's best for Larian.
— Swen Vincke @where? (@LarAtLarian) March 23, 2024
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