Originally Posted by Wormerine
Originally Posted by Ametris
I've never seen game developers say that they're simply tired of their own game, and it's not encouraging me to trust this won't happen again
Sure but that’s because a lot of game production is revenue driven and publishers will always prefer milking existing IP, rather than trying something new and risky. „We don’t want to keep doing the same thing over Andover again” is an understandable sentiment, and tends to be a mantra of some of my favourite studios.

I’m not sure if this is a controversial opinion, but I think that studios like Larian need to be very careful about claiming that their approach to development puts passion before profit. They are a company after all and need to make money, and this is doubly true with how much their studio has grown in size after the success of BG3. Just because they are super passionate about their next project does not mean it’s guaranteed to be profitable, even if it’s met with amazing critical reception. Bungie studios received great feedback for the most recent expansion to Destiny 2, but that didn’t save them from the fact that they were bleeding money, leading to almost half of the studio being laid off or moved to other companies.

There’s definitely a part of this community that has the mindset of “I’ll get Larian’s next game no matter what because I love BG3” but that isn’t representative of the general gaming population. People have learned their lesson about blindly trusting developers. CDPR was seen as infallible after the success of Witcher 3, but the release of Cyberpunk showed everybody the importance of being cautious. The last thing I want to see from Larian after making this awesome game would be for them to put out their next project only for it to not sell very well and force them to downsize their studio that grew so much because of Baldur’s Gate.

As crazy as it may sound, I would much rather see a company put 80% passion into a series that people are ravenously consuming that prints money for them so they can keep working, than I would like to see them put 100% passion into something that nobody but them actually cares about and causes their studio to fail.