Baldur’s Gate 3 is Causing Some Developers to Panic

I'm a game developer. No game developers are panicking about this game. I've not played it but I'll probably play it soon. It looks great but even if it blows my mind it doesn't cause me to panic. It inspires me. I don't know of a game developer that gets panicked at the sight of good games. I know monetary goblins that might realize they can't push heartless games anymore but in the last decade we've started to see games really take shape as cinematic masterpieces. Experiences that truly top movies. This is the inevitable next step. Games with more interactions and more meaningful choice out of those interactions.

Click baiting video. Other devs don't care. As long as they can make money pumping out mediocre games then they will continue to do so. Acting like this is the first good game to come out in a decade or something.

BG 3 is so stupid, it's not even optimizing micro transactions for maximum profits

“Oh no fans might demand good games at release! The horror!”

Oh no, if people remember that games are supposed to be good, no one will buy our lootbox-infested crap anymore.

Good.

If you have to panic because a competitor makes a good game maybe you should reconsider why you're a game developer in the first place. If it's not to make the best games you can make, you shouldn't be a game developer. I'm guessing the developers panicking aren't the ones who pour their heart and soul into every game they make.

I think this is also part of why there's been such weirdly resilient misrepresentation of games like Star Citizen, from its very inception to this day -- publishers know that if these kinds of projects succeed, it raises the bar.

Raising the bar is great to the devs themselves who love doing new stuff, implementing new ideas and changing formulas etc. when they are given the time and resources to do that. Publishers hate it because it means you can't just pump out the same old tired, formulaic reskins of games and expect everyone to pay a premium.

Developers? Panicking? Developers will rejoice that they don't have to build these garbage mechanics. Publishers and game studio execs? Yeah they'll panic

Honestly I hope this does indeed set a new gold standard. Probably not with the whole early access thing, though. It’s a thing that needs to go away.

Making bad developers panic maybe?

I can't imagine something like this makes the Redfall devs feel good about themselves.

Actually Redfall likely doesn't make the Redfall devs feel good about themselves.

How does it cost millions of dollars to make a current AAA game, and they're rarely worth it?

If you have 5,000 people on your payroll for a game what the hell are they doing? Every game should be fantastic.

I love indie and AA games. Smaller teams. More focus. More fun. Usually more quality content.

This reminds me of the time Ubisoft developers decided to have a bitchfit about Elden Ring because it didn't have any of the same shitty monetization or trash formulaic design choices as their games.

It's like these developers think that because they're painfully mediocre, every other studio is required to be as well.

No.... no its not.

Other developers appreciate art.

I get everyone's sentiment here, boiling it down to "better games are better" but also keep in mind the development costs and times for making new games are constantly going up. Yeah of course there are fantastic indie games out there (and I love them myself) that have a fraction of AAA game budgets and dev time but those are the gems in the rough, not the norm.

I'm all for better gaming experiences but they do come with tradeoffs. Also, flops are now death sentences for studios so the pressure to perform is even higher

The expectations have been set for a long time. BG3 isn't the first good game. It's just the first in a while, after mountains of AAA garbage ultimately driven by shareholders and MBAs.

The sad thing is: those people are so clueless that they dont see they'd make more money by just not getting in the way of a good dev team.

What if games have to be good, not just eventually but on the day we sell it to someone.

Nothing better then moving the benchmark forward.

Fans expectations for games are already insanely high. Baldur's Gate 3 isn't going to change much.

Also the video implies that this complaint is industry wide but only has 3 tweets (or X's?).

And that's a bad thing because?

This reminds me of the time Ubisoft developers decided to have a removedfit about Elden Ring because it didn't have any of the same shitty monetization or trash formulaic design choices as their games.

It's like these developers think that because they're painfully mediocre, every other studio is required to be as well.

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