Is it true that DLC for Baldur's Gate 3 and Baldur's Gate 4 is cancelled?

[Automatic-Kalashnikov 47]

Finally after over a decade, an actual passionate and loving game like Baldur's Gate 3 has blessed this world with its release.

But then I see this sad news/rumor where Baldur's Gate 3 DLC plans were cancelled and the developers were also considering Baldur's Gate 4 in the future but that's also cancelled.

My source is this youtube video from a solid youtuber called MrMattyPlays
https://youtu.be/unei--pbw10

Is this true?

[Slav Mcgopnik]

Publicado originalmente por votadc:

They never managed to persuade WOTC, so It wasn't cancelled.

Persuade WOTC? larian left Wizards, not the other way around.

[Doctor Zalgo]

Persuasion didn't come into it. Larian won't do a DLC that doesn't give out XP and the engine/rule set can't possibly support characters above level 12.

Just go and look at the spells and abilities the devs would have to figure out how to code.

[Chaosolous]

Publicado originalmente por WE HAWT:

Literally a blessing to the games industry and yet it is abandoned sadly.

It’s not abandoned, they’re still updating it. However the majority of content is what’s in the game now.

BG3 isn’t the blessing. Larian is.

[Ozius]

Always leave your fans wanting more.

[Ozius]

Publicado originalmente por WE HAWT:

Literally a blessing to the games industry and yet it is abandoned sadly.

It's not abandoned, it's complete, just as games used to be.

[Jinkaru]

Rule #1 of basic Internet use - Don't believe everything you see. I thought we learned this in the 90s?

[Brian_the_Brute]

Contrary to the uniformed posts earlier, there were early plans for DLC/expansion but they were cancelled.

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However, when speaking to IGN, Vincke revealed that the developer did begin working on DLC for the title and even considered a sequel. “Because of all the success, the obvious thing would have been to do a DLC, so we started on one. We started even thinking about Baldur’s Gate 4. But we hadn’t had closure on BG3 yet, and to jump forward on something new felt wrong.

Larian founder Swen Vincke said the team was "elated" about the DLC cancellation and said its next title is "different" but "still familiar."
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BG4 will happen so Hasbro can try and cash in, but a lot of it will be AI generated. Hasbro fired all the staff that worked on artwork, D&D books, and the staff that worked with Larian in the beginning. BG3 did well, but Hasbro is not doing well overall.

[Mr Fred]

Who cares, the game was half decent and a great entry point for newcomers to the genre but should have been called Divinity 3.

Hope they stop ruining classic franchise in the future and keep to their own IP.

[Lord Adorable]

Publicado originalmente por Mr Fred:

Who cares, the game was half decent and a great entry point for newcomers to the genre but should have been called Divinity 3.

Hope they stop ruining classic franchise in the future and keep to their own IP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThJcHjCI9j4

[UnholyDentist]

Publicado originalmente por WE HAWT:

Finally after over a decade, an actual passionate and loving game like Baldur's Gate 3 has blessed this world with its release.

But then I see this sad news/rumor where Baldur's Gate 3 DLC plans were cancelled and the developers were also considering Baldur's Gate 4 in the future but that's also cancelled.

My source is this youtube video from a solid youtuber called MrMattyPlays
https://youtu.be/unei--pbw10

Is this true?

Not sure about cancelled, I believe there never was anything announced about DLC or BG4. What we know is that Larian quit BG3 development and their partnership with WotC was terminated, due to Hasbro mismanagement, changing contract terms and demanding more royalties from BG3 sales. So they are not making any D&D games as long as WotC is owned by Hasbro.

[Lord Adorable]

Publicado originalmente por UnholyDentist:

Publicado originalmente por WE HAWT:

Finally after over a decade, an actual passionate and loving game like Baldur's Gate 3 has blessed this world with its release.

But then I see this sad news/rumor where Baldur's Gate 3 DLC plans were cancelled and the developers were also considering Baldur's Gate 4 in the future but that's also cancelled.

My source is this youtube video from a solid youtuber called MrMattyPlays
https://youtu.be/unei--pbw10

Is this true?

Not sure about cancelled, I believe there never was anything announced about DLC or BG4. What we know is that Larian quit BG3 development and their partnership with WotC was terminated, due to Hasbro mismanagement, changing contract terms and demanding more royalties from BG3 sales. So they are not making any D&D games as long as WotC is owned by Hasbro.

Citation Needed.

[Ghost]

Publicado originalmente por Lord Adorable:

Publicado originalmente por UnholyDentist:

Not sure about cancelled, I believe there never was anything announced about DLC or BG4. What we know is that Larian quit BG3 development and their partnership with WotC was terminated, due to Hasbro mismanagement, changing contract terms and demanding more royalties from BG3 sales. So they are not making any D&D games as long as WotC is owned by Hasbro.

Citation Needed.

All we know is what we've been told by Larian - that they're not going to do it, and that they're not interested in doing it, and that they have no issue with WotC.

They're going to continue with patches and mod support, and work on their next game, which will apparently "dwarf the scope of BG3".

[Razorblade]

DLC was in production for BG3, but was "cancelled" when Larian decided their "hearts weren't in it." Really, I'm not sure if I'd go as far as calling an unannounced prpject in pre/early production "cancelled," but regardless, it has now been confirmed they had intended to do DLC. Of course, before it was "cancelled," the public had no idea it was even happening.

BG4, however, was never really "planned." Larian had "started thinking about it," but there were no hard plans for it. You definitely can't cancel something you never came close to starting.

Source straight from the horses mouth: https://www.ign.com/articles/larian-started-work-on-baldurs-gate-3-dlc-then-canceled-it-the-studio-was-elated

[Coldhands]

Publicado originalmente por WE HAWT:

Publicado originalmente por KRON:

You can't cancel that which wasn't planned to begin with.

And it's not a rumor. Larian themselves have confirmed that they have no plans of expanding BG3 with DLC or to make BG4.

BG3 is still an amazing and impressive game without a DLC but I don't understand why abandon it, not even a DLC or anything. Literally a game that has won so many awards and has offended so many AAA companies and AAA game developers.

Literally a blessing to the games industry and yet it is abandoned sadly.

Sure there's little cute updates but then those updates are just updates that fixes this game since this game is kinda problematic, technical computer stuff wise (performance, animations, glitches, bugs, etc.).

BG3 isn't being abandoned, it's done. Gamers are always saying they miss the good old days, when single player games were king and we didn't have loads of DLC and microtransactions. Well, this is what that was like. Games came out, they got a patch or two, and that was usually it. Devs moved on to other projects.

[larhtas]

Publicado originalmente por WE HAWT:

Publicado originalmente por larhtas:

Like some said before. It was never planned.
And addmore they told at release that they were done with DnD.
I don't know why medias are talking about this just right know.
If anything it's old news.

I just knew about it only a few moments ago when I saw Larian's Baldur's Gate 4 and future plans video in Gamespot yt channel which was released only a few days ago.

I guess the next project is probably Divinity Original Sin 3 then, unfortunate but best of luck to them.

Don't worry everything you've played with in this title is now canon.
Also Larian have just created a new standard for video games.
^^