Hasbro preparing to show its whole, unwiped ass, proving it is entirely incapable of learning from its past mistakes as a c-suite.
Right, yeah, let's go find a completely different developer to keep milking the success of Baldur's Gate 3. It'll bolster shareholder confidence, of course!
But it also all but dooms BG4. Both in part because BG3 kinda wrapped up its whole thing intentionally, and because it's not fucking Larian making it. I see no other team perfectly positioned in funding, time, expertise, and planet-alignment available to replicate what Larian did, so, barring odds that would simply be ridiculous to bet on (even moreso than gamedev usually is!), BG4 is not going to be as successful as BG3.
But those shareholders though.
Fuck. Companies should not be allowed to have shareholders. Blahblah captialism blahblah free market blahblah fuck off, shareholders are the landlords of the means of production, and are literally the source of the majority of the world's ills. Investing in a company for the purpose of profit is fucking gambling. There should be a permanent cap on how much you can get back from an investment or something. Like you can never get more than 150% of your investment back, whether via dividends or stock or shorting or whatever. Just fucking cap it, or something.
Going down the rabbit hole of 'how do you get rid of shareholder-profit-motivation without just undoing capitalism altogether' is silly because A: just get rid of capitalism altogether, and B: there's ways, and those ways have loopholes that need to be accounted for, and those together begin to spiral into convoluted, unrealistic changes that ultimately culminate in going back to A.
Fuck Hasbro. I pity the devs that are forced to take on BG4 for money.
