Zippy BotAB to GamingEnglish · 6 months agoD&D makers are spending $1 billion on their own video games, promising they’ll be ‘quality and authentic’ like Baldur’s Gate 3www.rockpapershotgun.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down13
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkD&D makers are spending $1 billion on their own video games, promising they’ll be ‘quality and authentic’ like Baldur’s Gate 3www.rockpapershotgun.comZippy BotAB to GamingEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65·6 months agoBased on how they bought DnD Beyond and then stopped supporting user experience improvements in favor of increasing the annoyance of the Marketplace, they will be nowhere close to BG3 and will most likely be microtransaction hell.
minus-squareAussiemandeus@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 months agoImagine you buy the base game and it comes with the fighter class only. Then it’s 20 dollars for the rogue and each other class. Wizard spells, forget that gold cost to scribe a spell into your book. Pay real money to own the spell. Only 5 hours of content initially too, new parts of the story released monthly with a subscription tied to it.
Based on how they bought DnD Beyond and then stopped supporting user experience improvements in favor of increasing the annoyance of the Marketplace, they will be nowhere close to BG3 and will most likely be microtransaction hell.
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Imagine you buy the base game and it comes with the fighter class only.
Then it’s 20 dollars for the rogue and each other class.
Wizard spells, forget that gold cost to scribe a spell into your book. Pay real money to own the spell.
Only 5 hours of content initially too, new parts of the story released monthly with a subscription tied to it.