Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke has given more information regarding Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC and why the developer decided not to pursue additional content for the smash-hit RPG.
Last year, Larian stated it was moving on from Baldur’s Gate 3 so it could focus on two new projects based on its own things.
Vincke, director of Baldur’s Gate 3, was speaking to GameSpot about modding when he mentioned that Larian was ”not in the DLC business” and when pushed to add to this, Vincke said the studio just wasn’t interested in it, despite the success Baldur’s Gate 3.
Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC ‘Boring’ to Larian
“It’s boring. Really, the honest answer is, we try to be in the DLC business,” Vincke said, ”This was talked about with Baldur’s Gate 3, but just, no passion.”
Not that he didn’t understand why it would make sense.
”This is what we were supposed to do, right? Oh, we got a huge game, huge hit, we’ve got to make DLC this, and DLC that, and DLC there, and DLC there, and the money’s going to pile up all high.”
“And we just nodded and said ‘yeah, we’ll make DLCs’, and then the moment that we had some time to think, we realised: ‘What are you doing?’ Progressive insight is not a bad thing, so sometimes you go down the wrong path and then you say ‘oh, fuck it’ and just change course, pardon my French, and just do something else.”
You can hear Vincke’s explanation in full in the GameSpot video below.
So Larian has made it pretty clear there’s no Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC, and probably no Baldur’s Gate in general in its foreseeable future. We could see it return to its fantastic work on the Divinity: Original Sin series, but it would also be exciting to see something entirely new from the studio.
