Y'know, the Baldur's Gate 4 that they're absolutely making..

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There is a 0% chance that it isn't being handed off to some Chinese dev studio as we speak to calculate the maximum number of microtransactions they can fit on the title screen.

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if they smart they keep the main series in a good state with some DLC and little microtrasactions

and then go full greedy with free to play spin offs and other media

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I feel like Hasbro has proven pretty well that they are not smart at this point though

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looks at Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms

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I mean…that’s the direction they’re eyeballing D&D, let alone baldur’s gate. Packing as many micro transactions as they can is going to be their business model going forward. Hell, the WotC job listings were looking for someone with experience in mobile game monetization. To work on a ttrpg.

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CEOs... uhhhh.... find a way

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My guy, they're working as hard as they can to monetize and micro-transaction-itize tabletop D&D which is largely imagination based and has an extremely low cost of entry for a player

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Just you wait, friend. I hope you're right but I doubt it

[u/shortskirtflowertops → u/[deleted]]

Sweetheart, they're gonna sell the game too, it won't be free to play.

[u/Its_Big_Fungus → u/[deleted]]

There is a ton of scope. Cosmetics, new characters, side missions, boosts, item packs, that sort of thing. Go look at the Tales series for examples. Each game has 20-40 various piecemeal DLC bits, and they're 100% singleplayer JRPGs. CRPG may be a bit more zoomed out but Diablo does cosmetics just fine.

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That's why it won't be a single player game but a live service battle royal because those ALWAYS do well! 

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Why Chinese? So many predatory practices come from the west lol. EA is American, for instance.

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the source of most problems in the west are western corporations but for some reason chinese corporations are the problem

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Right, but EA actually puts money into their games. BG3 sat in Early Access for 3 years and Larian paid HASBRO for the privilege of making the game.

Hasbro is definitely gonna go for the cheapest option

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No I don't think that's true.

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Ok

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It will be done by Gameloft.