The Pleasure
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psst ..
your glasses are off again
My friend bought a copy. Thank him.
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Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss; "We made a big game, so I think there's a fair price to be paid for that."
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My friend bought a copy. Thank him.
The PC version released earlier too if you didn't know. Didn’t stop you from downplaying second place on Fifa launch month, for the entire month sales. Then gloating about second place in a month that didn’t even have another big game launch, on an hourly chart. I asked if you think Fifa on launch month is smaller than CoD on month 2, where sales have dropped considerably. You pretended like the answer existed in Circana data with some false facts and more COD yearly gloating. Not surprising how your standards change though.Mate, I don't know where this conversation is going either. BG3 is trading places with CoD as the top paid app on Xbox right now.
Your 'oh i thought 2nd place wasn't good enough' gotcha attempt made little sense, especially as this is a late port anyway. Not a day and date release with the other versions.
Beer Baelly
Al Pachinko, Konami President
These damn Belgians think they are on top if the world.
FunkMiller
Gold Member
Vlodril
Member
It's not just gp people. Replace gp with steam and you will be golden as well.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
It’s a GP title when what MS’s offer exceeds revenues from sales. I don’t think it’s worth it for either party.
Silver Wattle
Gold Member
Anyway, who else thinks Larian's initial plans to make a smaller game are probably going to change with how much praise and sales they have gotten from BG3? a sequel would be both warranted and wanted by consumers, it wouldn't take as long to develop since they have most of the game worked out.
GamePass is starting to look more and more like a dumping ground for developpers without faith in their product. Enjoyed my time with it during the last gen but in recent years it's been kinda eh.
I'll always prefer paying full(er) price for a title that I'll own forever. And I'm glad Larian had the integrity to take that risk.
I can also imagine that, if they were gauranteed to get some risk-free minimum income, they wouldn't have cared as much to polish it to the extent they did. In that way I can definitely see GP devaluating the standards that companies set for themselves. We see it in other services too (Netflix).
I'll always prefer paying full(er) price for a title that I'll own forever. And I'm glad Larian had the integrity to take that risk.
I can also imagine that, if they were gauranteed to get some risk-free minimum income, they wouldn't have cared as much to polish it to the extent they did. In that way I can definitely see GP devaluating the standards that companies set for themselves. We see it in other services too (Netflix).
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Microsoft was lowballing the shit out of them for Baldur’s Gate.
Good on Larian to not devalue the Game of the Year.
Good on Larian to not devalue the Game of the Year.
The arrogance. It’s high time uncle Phil buy Belgium.
Mister Wolf
Member
They need to do a Planescape game next. They are officially the Dungeons & Dragon studio now.
nowhat
Member
In 2021, Belgium's GDP was $549B. So that's like about only eight ABK's, surely MS has still acquisition funds available.
Ansphn
Member
Only Sega believe this
Bernardougf
Gold Member
Fuck Gamepass
Moriarty1889
Member
Good for him on his stance. Games like this that are successful prove people will buy a game if it’s really good. Thats how companies recoup on their investment and make sequels. Sub services like Gamepass don’t do any good in that regard. It cheapens the product and limits the revenue needed for a sequel.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
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YeulEmeralda
Member
Not really. People on Steam know that it takes a few years for deep discount Steam sales.
By the way this game will probably go on GamePass when they start giving it away in Humble bundles.
Guilty_AI
Member
You say that but this game has been among top sellers on steam since launch. And 0 discounts so far.
nowhat
Member
I think he meant (usually timed) Epic Store exclusives and Steam users.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Christ. You don't have to pay 70 dollars at all. You can wait.
Guilty_AI
Member
Oh, ok. Very different from a gamepass situation tho.
nowhat
Member
Sure, but both result in many posts saying how the poster won't be getting the game. Like, just don't buy (or in case of GP, play) it and shut up.
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It's almost like people have different tastes and some of them don't like a mega collection of average and outdated games.That's a weird stance to take in what is arguably one of the best years for game pass
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Kinda like how different developers have different opinions on putting their games on services. Some even thrive off of it.
Schmendrick
Member
Have people become so stupid that the simple choice of "not worth it for me, not buying it" is too hard to grasp?
Just wow.....
Yeah I'm sure my previous post talked about none of that.
Did any of those "thriving" developers win GOTY's too by any chance?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Yes, many.
2022: Immortality, Pentiment, Vampire Survivors, Plague Tale: Requiem, Citizen Sleeper, Norco, Sniper Elite 5, Tunic
2021: It Takes Two, Forza Horizon 5, Halo: Infinite, Psychonauts 2, Unpacking, Age of Empires IV, Back 4 Blood, Scarlet Nexus, Artful Escape, Forgotten City
I'm sure I missed a few, but all the above games are from the last 2 years which won one or more GoTY awards and were on game pass at the time.
Game of the Year - Award Tracker
Here you can see the awards for the best game of the year according to different media
goty.gamefa.com
nah fam
Vlodril
Member
Oh i didn't mean the discounts just what people say. If you replace steam with gp it just goes
Entire new game announced? "Does this gonna come to Steam? If so I will give a shot"
New game launched? "Does this gonna come to Steam? I will only play this if it comes to Steam"
Company says their game won't be coming to Steam? " I will wait until eventually comes Steam"
Fanboys are fanboys wherever they are.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
people? what people?It's almost like people have different tastes
Back 4 Blood - Steam Charts
An ongoing analysis of Steam's player numbers, seeing what's been played the most.
Halo Infinite - Steam Charts
An ongoing analysis of Steam's player numbers, seeing what's been played the most.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The whole two dozen playersThe people who think those games are GoTY material over your 'nah fam'
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Guilty_AI
Member
Fairly different situation from gamepass though. Costumer is still paying full price for the game on steam, its less a matter of fanboying (or money like GP) and more a matter QoL. Reality is most other clients suck ass.
Hey man, you were the one talking about ''thriving''
Vlodril
Member
I agree it has nothing to do with gamepass. It was just a thought about the situation on steam i do disagree though that it is less a matter of fanboying and more a matter of qol. It is still fanboyism just trying to disguising itself. (like any console warrior the pc warrior is no different just in a different area. Fanboyism is just daft anywhere).
Edited to add: This has nothing to do with the thread really and was a random thought so sorry for the derail.
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Roni
Gold Member
People in the future will laugh at us for bullshit like this, and they'll be right.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
100% THIS!
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Yes people have become that stupid. It's bad man....
JackMcGunns
Member
Game Pass does have its uses. You can have both, this is not one of those games that will benefit from Game Pass. MS will continue to put it's first party games there which is still great, but we can't expect a game like GTA6 to be included with Game Pass lol.
nowhat
Member
You mean Mandarin?