Baldur's Gate 3 has been such a massive success for developer Larian Studio that you'd naturally assume that the team behind it would jump at the chance to make more. Unfortunately, no amount of success or praise is going to convince Larian to go back to Baldur's Gate, as CEO Swen Vincke recently revealed in a panel at GDC that the studio doesn't intend to make a sequel or any expansions for Baldur's Gate 3.
That's a pretty heavy blow for Baldur's Gate 3 fans out there hoping that Larian would someday be at the helm of a potential Baldur's Gate 4, but when it rains, it pours. In even more bad news for Baldur's Gate fans, Vincke later explained while speaking with IGN that DLC for Baldur's Gate 3 was actually in development at one stage, but it was eventually canceled as he thought that it "wasn't really coming from the heart".
Because of all the success, the obvious thing would have been to do a DLC, so we started on one. We started even thinking about BG4. But we hadn’t really had closure on BG3 yet and just to jump forward on something new felt wrong. - Larian CEO Swen Vincke
Baldur's Gate 3's runaway success had everyone thinking that more content was inevitable, and that apparently was the thought at Larian too. According to Vincke, working on DLC only really came about because "everyone felt like we had to do it," and when Vincke told the rest of Larian about scrapping what they had been working on, he was surprised to see so many people "elated."
While you wouldn't normally expect a reaction like that from a developer who clearly loves all things Baldur's Gate 3, Vincke stresses that the team "didn't have any antagonism" towards potentially making DLC or Baldur's Gate 4. It's just that Larian wasn't excited about making it like they were when they initially started Baldur's Gate 3, and more of the same felt like "more routine work" rather than something to be excited about.
It's a nice mindset to have as a developer, as people rarely create their best work
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