And now, just to ballance things out ... a sceptical prognosis:
Baldur's Gate III. will come out and it will be awesome ... Big studios will not give a shit and will keep releasing things, just as they allways did ... And people will buy those things, just as they allways did ...
So nothing really change. Only from time to time, someone on some long forgotten forum, in a decade or two ... will mention that once uppon a time, it was possible to make things differently.
I kinda think it will actually make things worse. Companies like EA, they have Bioware, but they don't understand Bioware's product or the demographic. The EAs of the world don't understand Larian and they don't understand Baldurs Gate, nor the hardcore rpg genre, in general. They're going to look at BG3 and the money it will make, and the order will pass down from corporate execs on high that they must have their own Baldur's Gate. But they will have completely wrong takeaways about what made BG3 successful. They will dictate that their games will have devil-men, or incredible amounts of gore, or bestiality, perceiving these as being essential to the BG3 magic recipe. In the end, a whole slew of shoddy rpg knock-offs will roll out. They will fail. Then the big corporates will try to buy Larian or anyone else who has made an rpg with isometric view in the last decade. If Sven sells out, it will mean yet more decades without a good rpg.
