The director of Baldur’s Gate 3 received a call from his mother when he was accused of plagiarizing another video game

Imagine having a meeting where everything seems to have come out of true luxury and when you get to your seat you discover that you are on the verge of being fired because of that meeting. Well, that’s a bit what happened to Swen Vincke, the director of Baldur’s Gate 3, when, after showing his game for the first time (which we now all know has been a bestseller and one of the most important titles in recent years), he received so much hate on the Internet that even his mother ended up calling him to demand answers.

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What a mess you’ve made, little chicken

And the audience from home decided that the game was a plagiarism of Divinity: Original Sin 2 because, basically, it was made with the same engine. After all, both were games by Larian, but beyond the graphics engine, as we all know, the games couldn’t be more different from each other. That didn’t stop gamers from drawing their first hasty conclusions.

“We felt really positive when we finished our presentation. Additionally, it was being streamed. We left the room and I received a call from my mother, who said ‘What have you done?’. And I replied ‘What do you mean?’, and she said ‘People are very angry with you.’“ Fortunately, shortly after the game was released, the clouds cleared, no one ever accused him of plagiarism again, and luckily, Vincke’s mother didn’t have to be scared again. Unless she played the game and didn’t want to see certain things, of course.

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