That’s two separate products and companies you’re thinking about…
joker125@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Haven’t played BG3 but wtf sense does it make to layoff these team(s)?
Plenty of people paid for the game and enjoyed it and it won GOTY.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
cam_i_am@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You misunderstand. Larian is the company that made the BG3 video game, and they haven’t laid people off.
However it’s a licensed game. Baldur’s Gate and D&D are IPs that are owned by a company called Wizards (previously Wizards of the Coast). And Wizards is owned by Hasbro. Hasbro is forcing layoffs at Wizards.
The people at Wizards, i.e the people who actually make D&D are no doubt passionate wonderful people. But Hasbro (and probably some of the Wizards management) are awful corporate parasites determined to suck every last penny from their properties.
They don’t give a shit how loved a product is, if it’s not making $100M per year then it’s basically worthless to them and they won’t fund it. So layoffs happen.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They laid off a lot of the MtG team as well.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Cool. Make it independent again.