Bioware Not Opening Baldur’s Gate Again
Bioware are definitely not going to produce Baldur’s Gate 3, but Dragon Age: Origins is similar to what they would have done.
The rights to the Baldur’s Gate Licence have passed to Atari, meaning that because they are EA owned, Bioware will never be able to return to that universe. But in an interview with Bioware’s Vice President Greg Zeschuk, he had the following to say:
“The Baldur’s Gate and Dungeons and Dragons property is of course controlled by Atari, and owned originally by Hasbro, so it’s a complicated, convoluted way of getting there. For us it’s more a function of… because we weren’t in a position to do Baldur’s Gate… hey well let’s create our own! That’s effectively what this [Dragon Age: Origins] is. It’s funny, we took a page from Fallout, not Fallout 3 but Fallout 1. Fallout 1 was basically a game called Wasteland – that was the spiritual successor to Wasteland.”
He also went on to say that the company misses some of the characters they created for the franchise, and it is frustrating they weren’t able to return to them, but they did close out the series so that is something.
The company also have no regrets regarding the property, believe it was some of their best work at the time.
Source: videogamer
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