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.
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.
I said nothing about diverse viewports. That is your own skewed perceptions jumping in. I am all for diversity and equality. Everybody should be treated equally!
What I am against is FORCED hiring practices. I know nothing about the hiring practices of Larian, and you can see they have a very diverse team, but you can also see, from their various podcasts, that the people there are capable and love doing what they are doing. There is no “in your face” agenda pushing from their material.
Why are you so afraid of hiring by merit? But, just continue to push your own narrative in your head if it makes you feel better.
- 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.
you seem to want to bring conservative political talking points to a baldurs gate forum. Why? Please stop.
Firstly, you know nothing about my political leanings. If I had to myself in one of your “boxes” it would definitely be left leaning not conservative, so that makes your point moot.
