Can winning many awards be a problem? Yes for Baldur’s Gate 3

Baldur’s Gate 3 arrived like a natural disaster. Without warning and without any way to prepare for what it would mean for the industry. But unlike a disaster, natural or not, everything it’s meant for the video game and to those of us who enjoy it has been good. It is an excellent classic-style RPG that has elevated the Dungeons & Dragons brand and has definitively put its developers, Larian Studios, on the radar.

That’s why it’s not surprising that Baldur’s Gate 3 has won an obscene amount of awards throughout its almost year-long life. Something to celebrate, given its high quality, but its success has brought with it some unforeseen problems. Because even though it may seem like there can’t be anything wrong with winning lots of awards, Swen Vincke, director of Baldur’s Gate 3, explained in an interview with Edge that winning so many awards has interfered a bit with the studio’s work.

Winning dozens of awards and not wanting to miss any of the galas has ended up being a problem for the studio. So much so, they had to create rotating teams to send different groups of people to the different awards so that the studio wouldn’t have to slow their development. A blessed inconvenience, but still problematic.

Although Vincke acknowledges that they might not go to collect all the awards, he also admits that the awards are important, and they greatly appreciate the support and compliments. Although perhaps their preference would be for all the awards to be given at the same time of year, so that they could definitively close the projects, both in a physical and emotional sense. Ultimately, he understands why that’s not possible.

Taking into account that Baldur’s Gate has won all five major game of the year awards in the industry, something never seen before, the success of the game is undeniable. And no one would blame them if they didn’t attend all the awards ceremonies where they’re celebrated. Yet their commitment to players, the press, and critics seems to have no limits. And that’s another reason to love them.

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