'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs
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Haven’t played BG3 but wtf sense does it make to layoff these team(s)?
Plenty of people paid for the game and enjoyed it and it won GOTY.
You misunderstand. Larian is the company that made the BG3 video game, and they haven't laid people off.
However it's a licensed game. Baldur's Gate and D&D are IPs that are owned by a company called Wizards of Coast. And Wizards is owned by Hasbro. Hasbro is forcing layoffs at Wizards, specifically on the D&D team because it doesn't print money as efficiently as say, Magic the Gathering does.
The people at Wizards, i.e the people who actually make D&D are no doubt passionate wonderful people. But Hasbro (and probably some of the Wizards management) are awful corporate parasites determined to suck every last penny from their properties.
They don't give a shit how loved a product is, if it's not making $100M per year then it's basically worthless to them and they won't fund it. So layoffs happen.
They laid off a lot of the MtG team as well.
Those AI mtg generators probably got admin too rabid at the thought of not paying employees....
Cool. Make it independent again.
No-o-o, because then it may make money for others, think about all the lost profits. Better shut them completely /s
This is sadly a much more likely scenario
That's two separate products and companies you're thinking about...