Baldur's Gate 3 is never coming to Game Pass, Larian CEO says "there's a fair price to be paid" for "a big game" like this

Dec. 15, 2023

“This is what allows us to continue making other games,” says Swen Vincke

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Baldur’s Gate 3developer Larian decided “from the get-go” that the mammoth RPG wouldn’t be coming to Xbox or PC Game Pass, and that isn’t going to change.

That’s according to Larian CEO Swen Vincke, who discussed the possibility of a Game Pass release in a recent interview withIGN. “So look, we are in the business of making a game that has a beginning, middle, and an end,” Vincke says. “We made a big game, so I think there’s a fair price to be paid for that, and I think that that is okay.”

Vincke also points to the upfront, no-nonsense business model that’s helped make Baldur’s Gate 3 a community favorite. “We don’t charge you any micro-transactions on top of it, so you get what you pay for,” he says. “Up front it’s a big meaty game. So I think that should be able to exist as it is. This is what allows us to continue making other games.”

Baldur’s Gate 3 devs have previously expressed hopes that the RPG’s success as a traditional, single-player game may push other RPGs to get weird and aim high. “If you look at the indie space, RPGs never went away. People can go to a publisher and say, ‘Well, look what it fucking did for them,'“said writing director Adam Smith.

Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest hotfix went live last night during the dev’s Christmas party.

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