Baldur’s Gate 3 has been an insanely successful game for both Larian Studios and Hasbro, with the latter receiving US$90 million as a result of the game’s commercial success. Larian recently pushed the sixth major for the game patch a couple of weeks ago and has steadily come out with hotfixes too. A feature that the team has been working on for a while is official mod support. This is great news, but with each update that comes out currently, mods on PC break all the time.
For most people, this is perfectly reasonable as mod support is currently unofficial and mods are quite often version-dependent. For the frustratingly disruptive minority, this is enough ground to be toxic towards the development and community teams.
We’ll be talking in depth about what our mod support will look like soon. Been working on it since launch. As always, we’ll discuss it in our way with our community. Threats & toxicity against our devs & community teams will only harm the conversation. Please stop that.
— Very AFK (@Cromwelp) February 25, 2024
Every game experiences its less-than-savoury members of the community, but it is always disheartening when a studio that is as transparent and honest as Larian has to be careful with the dialogue between developers and the community. We have seen before how toxic members of a community can obfuscate the communication between the two parties, like how Destiny 2 shifted conversations from individual developer profiles to a sanitised Destiny 2 Team profile as Bungie employees were being harassed by the vitriolic few.
This is a game that went from ~2 mil players to way over 10 in a very short space of time, so it’s natural the conversation becomes muddier and complex. But in order to maintain the same level of dialogue, we need people to understand that these conversations take time. – Michael Douse via Twitter (@Cromwelp)
Baldur’s Gate 3 was released on August 3, 2023, for PC via Steam to critical acclaim. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game were released on September 6, 2023, and December 7, 2023, with the latter being a compromised version of the game for the Xbox Series S specifically. It additionally won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2023 and the D.I.C.E. Awards.
