Why will not Baldur's Gate 3 be an exclusive Google Stadia?

"There is no exclusive commitment to Stadia," said Swen Vincke, CEO of Larian Studios, saying it would still be used in other showcases and would not require Stadia to play. In fact, the pages of the Steam and GOG stores sites have been added to the announcement today.

"It was important for us to tell our players" we will not participate in the game of exclusivity, "said Vincke, which is obviously a hot topic at the moment, as Epic Games Store continues to remove the exclusive games from Steam, and Vincke made it clear that they did not want to do the same thing, regardless of their platform.

Many assumed that the Baldur's Gate 3 announcement at the Stadia Connect meant it was only available to subscribers of the new Google service, but he was actually motivated by Vincke's genuine enthusiasm for Stadia as a technology. "I'm a big supporter of the stadium," said Vincke. "That makes [games] really agnostic, and that's something I've always wanted to have.

"I think the game should adapt to the device, but the device should not matter when you play it," explained Vincke, comparing it to the efforts being made for Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2 to play smoothly on the PC and consoles. . "That's literally what Stadia does too, so that's worked out well."

He also said that Stadia's promise to improve interconnectivity, including being able to simply send links to other players that would allow them to join you in the game, was very appealing: "We are creating a game that contains more than 100 hours of content. you want to play this multiplayer mode, it requires a lot of investment and synchronization between them. If they can do it simply on a link on any device, it is much easier to do so than sitting behind your PC. "

"So that's what attracted me to Stadia when they started talking about it, and that's why I said," We really have to do it, "Vincke continued," because if I could just have people send links to each other, say: try, we're playing at Baldur's Gate 3, "it'll help a lot with the game."

Vincke also said that he was delighted that Stadia allows Larian to "ride the production values ​​without worrying too much about the minimum specifications." Since all graphics are managed by Stadia's servers, you will not have to pay anything. for an expensive PC to play on the highest graphics settings. "It's a really great technology, so I really hope it will succeed, because it's a democratization of the platform."