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.
I agree with all you have written, but an opinion that Larian is creatively led studio is more of my own asseement. Frankly I am impressed they decided to move away from BG3 - it is consistant with all they have said and done before, but that they decided not to double down on BG3 is something I admire.
Nonetheless, BG3's success could easly trip Larian (as I think Witcher3 success lead to CDPR overreaching in years after), we will see where they will go from here. I liked the idea of them working on multiple smaller projects, but it seems they found something big again they want to do.
Fortunately, on account on being mixed on actual Larian made games, I am not a fanboy at this point . I just seem to like how Larian does business more than the games they make.
I wouldn't call it consistent. Larian started the trend of having a definitive edition which has been adopted by several other high profile RPG creators. And many people, including people who like BG3, expected there to be a definitive edition that fixes act 3, which is why they have been rather lenient with Larian so far.
Once they realize that a definitive edition is not coming, as many people do not follow Larians communication on X closely, there will be a lot of disappointment.
But Larian already has their money and they apparently don't think that this will hurt future games.
. I just seem to like how Larian does business more than the games they make.