Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!campaignwiki.org!.POSTED.staticline-31-183-178-178.toya.net.pl!not-for-mail From: kyonshi Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd Subject: Re: [Polygon] Larian Studios wont make any more Baldurs Gate games Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:25:24 +0100 Organization: Campaign Wiki Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:25:23 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: sibirocobombus.campaignwiki; posting-host="staticline-31-183-178-178.toya.net.pl:31.183.178.178"; logging-data="3184707"; mail-complaints-to="alex@alexschroeder.ch" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:KGz1xFst/SpSNAwYjJET/pCq50c= sha256:nJdl8GdSVsD6O41DKwaxI86sqpYLeS0BhYcSyBFp2p8= sha1:mdDJ/9ixe5Zrw3MrfpvbC/wkjds= sha256:P2g7nDqkTHaVQG+g+jmAgOG+BzAtfCPVG+16qdeN0cw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2585 Lines: 30 On 3/22/2024 4:20 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:40:47 +0100, kyonshi wrote: > >> Source: >> https://www.polygon.com/24107939/baldurs-gate-3-larian-studios-no-more-dnd-wizards-of-the-coast >> >> >> Larian Studios won’t make any more Baldur’s Gate games > > There's also a D&D survival video game in development, which > superficially sounds interesting (in many ways, D&D was the original > survival game, especially once outdoor adventures were introduced ;-) > but will probably just be the another "Ark: Evolved" or "Sons of the > Forest" except with a D&D skin applied to it. That it's being > developed by Gameloft - who primarily makes mobile games - doesn't > inspire a lot of hope either. > > I would argue that Avalon Hill's Outdoor Survival was the original survival game. Especially as original D&D used the map from that as their own game board. (which is I think because Dave Arneson did that in his campaign). Wait a moment, isn't Avalon Hill by now owned by Hasbro? I sense some opportunity none of them have likely considered yet. I don't have any belief in that survival game being any good. Unless Gameloft decides to actually put effort in this will be just random shit. And considering WotC is in milk-the-cash-cow mode right now, I doubt anyone will put actual effort into that.