They do ~6B a year and clear about a billion, so that’s actually like 10% of their profit which is a lot for a company that big – wow!
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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 8 months agoSinking ship or not, word was that Wizards’ cut of BG3 was over $90M. $100M was the entire production cost of Baldur’s Gate 3. If you could fund an entire other massive video game for the cost of what you paid your partner for licensing, I’m sure anyone would be rethinking that deal. At this point, they don’t need the D&D license any more than BioWare needed the Star Wars license after KOTOR.
lanolinoil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
any more than BioWare needed the Star Wars license after KOTOR.
Glances at Starfield
Maybe not your strongest point
Tilgare@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bioware didn’t make Starfield - that was Bethesda. Maybe you were thinking of Anthem? And fair point there.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was talking about how the lack of Star Wars license didn’t stop Mass Effect from being even more successful than KOTOR, yes.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Thanks for expanding on my point.
They don’t need WotC as they keep fucking up. Other RPG systems are becoming more and more popular.
Maybe they can partner with Paizo and make the next Pathfinder game, although I’d feel bad for Owlcat because their games have been great too.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For similar reasons as D&D, I doubt they’d license someone else’s system either, but I could be wrong.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
True, the Divinity games were plenty of fun with their own system
Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I agree, but Piazo seems like much better partners. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d let them make the game for no fee, just license out the rules to try to make the system more well known and popular. Pathfinder 2E is the better system without a doubt, but people are used to D&D5e, so having something out there to bring new people in would be huge for them.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t know. The Owlcat games have a really deep system that Divinity and BG3 don’t have. Is that just because of the pathfinder ruleset? Or does Larian do better with simpler systems? I don’t have an answer to those questions. It might be cool to see a BG3 “version” of Pathfinder, but I think it would lose something in the process.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve played Baldur’s Gate 1, Baldur’s Gate 2, and Planescape: Torment on 2nd edition rules. I’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3 on 5th edition rules and started playing tabletop 5th edition. I’ve played Pillars of Eternity 1, as I understand it largely inspired by 3.5 edition rules, and the first 10 hours of Pillars of Eternity 2, which I assume is now iterating on its own offshoot. I understand Pathfinder to largely be D&D 3.5. If that’s the case, and it’s in the ballpark of what Pillars of Eternity 1 is, I’ll take 5th edition any day of the week, but if you’d like to explain to me briefly why I might be wrong, I’m listening. Compared to how the 2e games and the Pillars games handle spells of different levels, 5e’s upcasting seems like a godsend, for instance.
Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Games Workshop where’s their IP out to almost anyone, and despite being crappy about their mini stuff, they seem rather fair for electronic games.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Because they know this is the only part of their business left. Which works for them.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m out of the loop, what has wotc been fucking up?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hasbro pulled a bunch of typical big corp enshitification tactics with their licensing and digital assets over the last couple of years.
mihnt@lemy.lol 8 months ago
They’ve also tanked the used market for people. 2 decks I had that I paid way too much for aren’t worth the cardboard they are printed on now.