Originally Posted by MadameStrangeluv

The story as ive herd it is Larian went to WoTC, they said no. DOS2 did well they called them in asked them for the plan and said yes. Also when WoTC was askng who would do it basically everyone at the meeting said they wanted Larian to do it. This is the story that was usually told at the duel interviews after it was first announced.

I was not familier with them saying TB was their alone and they were planning at RTwP at some point but i would love to see it, im excited to find any new info about the game and new interviews


Here, Swen says that he approached WotC to make BG3:

https://youtu.be/jD5iycL9Kx8?t=458

I'm not sure in which post I read it said that Larian thought of doing RTwP first, but that idea seems to be contradicted by this comment from David Walgrave, where he also says that the choice to do TB combat was Larian's:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-02-27-baldurs-gate-3-interview
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The choices that we made are ours. Why did we go for turn-based instead of real-time with pause? Because D&D to us is a turn-based game and we're really good - or we have become really good - with turn-based combat. So that, I think, is one of our strengths, and trying out real-time with pause for now, just because the originals were that? It's a big risk. Because the team would have to think completely differently, our combat would be completely different. And we didn't really feel good about that. Normally we do try out a lot. Normally we try out a lot before we make a decision, but with real-time with pause and turn-based we didn't, we just said "Okay it's just gonna be turn-based."


I find that his claim that it felt too risky to try to make RTwP means that the decision to make a "BG3" make no sense. If they were too afraid to do anything other than make D:OS3... then why did they ask to make BG3? They should have just made D:OS3 and called it D:OS3. And this means that the decision to do TB is confirmed to be a sell-out move - they wanted the series name but didn't want to risk profits, so they just disregarded what the series represents to its fans.