Here’s What the CEO of BG3’s Larian Studios Wanted to Say During TGA 2023 Before Being Cut Short
During this year's The Game Awards 2023 event, Baldur's Gate 3 won The Game of the Year award, and here's what the CEO of developer Larian Studios wanted to say when accepting this precious award.
During Keighley's event, award winners were given 30 seconds onstage before being told to "wrap" things up. After this music started playing, and those involved were kindly requested to leave the stage. Many devs openly criticized this short time, and producer Geoff Keighley took to X afterward to express his understanding by acknowledging that the speeches were too short.
"By the way - I do agree that the music was played too fast for award winners this year, and I asked our team to relax that rule as the show went on", Keighley said on X. "While no one was actually cut off, it’s something to address going forward." Although Keighley said that no one was cut off, it was clear that the CEO of Larian Studios wasn't done with his speech. During his speech, the CEO was talking about friends and family members who passed away during the development of Baldur's Gate 3 before being cut off.
On X, Larian's CEO Swen Vincke has now posted a thread about what he wanted to say in full during his 'thank you' speech, thereby also mentioning that 30 seconds is a bit short for a speech. Vincke's thread is quite extensive (16 posts), and as such, we highly suggest reading the full thread on X. We've included some of his posts below.
"I want to thank geoffkeighley and the people that organized the #gameawards for creating an award show so big that it gets mainstream attention", he wrote. "While 30 secs is a bit short , there’s nothing like the game awards and it’s an incredible achievement."
In his speech, the CEO thanked those from Larian who
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