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The point is not about how Larian built this particular game. The thing to examine is how they were able to put themselves in the position to make this game. It
by slowmovintarget 3y ago
The point is not about how Larian built this particular game. The thing to examine is how they were able to put themselves in the position to make this game. It was not an accident, or luck. It was at least 15 years of toil just to be the kind of company that could do this.
This meant tireless focus on the nature of making an enjoyable game. Not addiction science, not investor pandering, not holiday release cycles... fun, story, and player agency.
- SXX 3y agoYes it took them more than two decades to get there, but unfortunately it's not enough to just make good games to achieve kind of success Larian achieved. It's really takes a lot of work on financial and investor attraction side when you making game that likely cost more than $100,000,000. Amount of bizdev talent and work required to pull it off is not that far from "making a good game" part.