Will Baldur's Gate 3 Game Pass Be Added? The director explains why the RPG deserves to be paid.
Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke believes the Dungeons & Dragons-based RPG is a great game worth paying for. I agree with you. The founder of Larian Studios says this is why the game is not coming to Xbox Game Pass.
“We said from the beginning it wouldn't be on Game Pass, it wouldn't be on Game Pass,” Vincke told IGN in a new interview. Vincke added that Baldur's Gate 50, a nearly 3-hour game full of tons of player choices and branching dialogue, has a beginning, middle and end, and no microtransactions get in the way.
Will Baldur's Gate 3 Game Pass Be Added?
“We made a big play, so I think it's a fair price to pay for that, and I think that's okay,” he said. “A big, meaty game at the forefront. That's why I think it should exist as it is. "That's what allows us to keep making other games."
Larian Studios is an independent company. That's one of the reasons Baldur's Gate 3 was possible in the first place, Vincke told Kotaku earlier this year. While an outside publisher or larger company could have cut the content or rushed the game, Larian's team was able to take the time needed to deliver the riskier parts of its vision thanks to the success of the studio's previous game, Divinity Original Sin 2.
While Game Pass has been a boon for many gamers and developers, there's also a fear that the monthly subscription service's Netflix-style buffet will devalue games in the long run, encouraging users to sample and graze, but never go back and buy the games they've fallen in love with outright.
Microsoft countered this logic, claiming that Game Pass subscribers actually spend more money on games than gamers who buy them just for the sake of owning them. Unlike Netflix or Spotify, Game Pass does not eliminate the option of purchasing games or add-on content.
Still, it's hard to look at the glut of content on movie and TV streaming services and the cuts they've implemented lately and not worry whether the whole model is wildly unsustainable. Unlike Microsoft, Sony has resisted putting its biggest games on rival subscription service PlayStation Plus, claiming it wouldn't be financially viable.
Interestingly, we got a look at what filling Game Pass with new releases could cost Microsoft. According to the information leaked from the case of purchasing Activision Blizzard, estimates of 1 million and 100 million dollars were made for Assassin's Creed Mirage and Mortal Kombat 250 to be uploaded to the service, respectively. How much for Baldur's Gate 3? According to initial estimates, $5 million. I'm not surprised that the game is not included in Game Pass.
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