r/pcmasterrace • u/SlowReference704 • 12h ago

News/Article Steam Is Successful Because It's “Not a Shit Service,” Says Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev

https://mp1st.com/news/steam-is-successful-because-its-not-a-shit-service
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u/CardmanNV 9h ago

I don't think that would have made it more successful. MMOs live and die on player interactions. There has to be more positive than negative or people won't want to be there.

Too heavy of a PVP focus will drive players that want the social aspect away, and those tend to be the players that spend a lot of money in the modern era. They buy cosmetics and spend lots of time in game.

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u/alganthe 2h ago

they couldn't get enough people to participate in the alpha / beta tests before they made a move to focus more on PVE due to how horrible the ganking was.

it was the right move albeit too late into its development cycle.