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Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨simple@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.videogamer.com/features/baldurs-gate-3s-biggest-mod-team-now-has-hundreds-of-devs-working-on-its-huge-custom-campaign-in-an-impressively-professional-production/

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  • courval@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does anyone get paid anything? Or potentially just the game makers capitalising on the success of the mod?

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    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People get mad when payment is expected for labor

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Defending amateurism in amateur fields is reasonable. Especially when amateurism is a legal defense of the practice such as modding. Professional mods without official license are copyright violations.

        This is similar to fanfic communities. The amateurism of the field gives it part of its charm and community, and it also makes it easier for people to come in, develop these skills, and move into creating and selling original works if they’d like to move in that direction.

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    • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      bethesda taught us a very important lesson a while ago - if your game isn’t good, then the modders won’t bother. Skyrim despite its flaws is a good game, and has mods to show it, Starfield despite its budget is pretty bad, and after the initial hype most ambitious mod projects were cancelled.

      because of that i don’t think there’s any neferious plot behind the game makers celebrating their modding community, and the modding community certainly isn’t getting forced to work without pay - they’re passionate about the game and want to make something of their own within it, and honestly that builds a good portfolio for future use too

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  • nuko147@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man, BG3 is so much downloaded at 15th April. Steam servers, better be ready for my 130GB download.

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  • ramius345@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m stoked for this mod.

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What a treat, and what a win for self-hosting. I wish they talked more about how they did it in the article.

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As an avid fan of BG2 this does tickle my fancy.

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  • ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ooooohhhh fuck yeah

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