Swen made a speech about the gradual build up of "institutional knowledge," pointing fingers at those ultra-large publishers who fire so many people as they try to increase revenue in the short term. But isn't DnD part of that institutional knowledge?
Maybe I'm being an idiot and all of the technical know-how and craftmanship can be carried over to different models of gameplay. And if you have good people that have stuck with you a long time, that is likely a major plus when venturing into new territory. Nevertheless, I have to stress that Larian without that DnD style or something similar, is hard for me to even imagine.
In my view, Halycon Styxland is right and DnD is beautiful simplicity, but it has lots of niggling flaws which can be ironed out in its iterations of evolution. I think Larian should be making perhaps an innovative leap that has its foundations in DnD. Otherwise they'll have to essentially latch onto something completely different that rocks and do it better (well, you can't stop Swen).
Incidentally, this is my first post, pleasure to be here and meet you all.
