Originally Posted by Horrorscope
Originally Posted by Abits
Do you guys still think there is hope for Bioware to come back?


It is possible, what isn't possible is having the same people come back to do it. Now do I think it will comeback with new players? 25%.

I think the hardest things for a player base to understand is they have to go with what is popular in many ways, they have no choice. That doesn't mean it is a bad game but enough people will think it is a sell out and not what they want. EA is not going to make an old school BG Game, yhat is why you need a smaller studio coming up to fill in those gaps, like a Larian, like Obsidian and the like, they can take the risk because they don't need the huge payback potential.

The cRPG purists liked DA:O but disliked DA:I. DA:O sold between 3 and 3.5 million. DA:I sold about 10 million. Which game was better for Bioware?

As for Larian, I think Larian is now where Bioware was about eight years ago after DA:O and looking to see where it wanted to go next. Larian's not a small indie studio anymore. It is very much a AAA studio, in the same box as Bioware and not at all in the same box as Obsidian. The question for me, then, is whether Larian is essentially following the same path as Bioware? Is Larian's sales goal for BG3 DA:O or DA:I?