Ugh, what an arrogant remark by Sven. Essentially he seems to admit they're piggybacking the BG brand with little intention of trying to do the legacy of their predecessors justice at all, it's purely for their own ends, quite megalomaniacal really.
Eh, it takes a short look at BG3 to see it has little interest in being a Bladur’s Gate game. I feel people attack Sven a bit too much. Would you want to have a smooth PR talker feeding you bullshit?
i also think that he has been misquoted a bit. He seems to think of BG IP just as a D&D project. I think he sees his multiplayer design to be a better translation of tabletop into PC and therefore wants to make BG3 using that template rather then looking at what made BG1&2 great and expanding on that.
I think he (and WotC) are missing the point and appeal of BG IP, but I am someone with little interest in multiplayer experience on PC.
