Baldur's Gate 3 has made bank for Hasbro, significantly contributing to a 40 percent increase in digital revenue for the company.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has made bank for Hasbro, significantly contributing to a 40 percent increase in digital revenue for the company.

  • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Wait, you mean if it is good and worth the money it sells and if it is a cheap worthless cash grab it does not??? Someone call Corporate!

    • Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Let’s not forget it has no DRM either. AAA studios told us that no game can do well without DRM

      • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The funny thing is I (and probably many others) didn’t even consider pirating it. It had great reviews and was readily available pretty much everywhere without any obvious drawbacks. So I spent full price for it.

        My point; DRM doesn’t matter if you produce and sell your game in a consumer friendly way.

    • MagicShel@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Corporate isn’t going to take away the lessons we might hope. Folks at corporate at going to ask things like, “how much money was left on the table?” They can only fuck things up through paying attention.

      • wootz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The takeaways that will make it to the steering group PowerPoint:

        • VideoGames based on our IP sell better than expected.
        • Sales of our other digital products follow suit
        • Larian Studios did this with minimal oversight
        • No reason to assume any and all VideoGame products based on other IPs would not follow similar pattern
        • Call to action: Fund additional Hasbro IP based VideoGames.
    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      I won’t lie. I flew the black flag on BG3. I’ll pick it up when it goes on a Steam sale, but I’m just not going to spend $60 on a video game no matter how good.