Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 won\u2019t be coming to Xbox Game Pass says boss: \u201cThere\u2019s a fair price to be paid\u201d Microsoft\/Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s director has confirmed that the game won\u2019t appear on PC\/Xbox Game Pass anytime soon due to the game\u2019s value for money. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 had a sporadic release schedule throughout 2023. The game launched on PC in August after spending several years in Steam Early Access. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 was released on PS5 and macOS in September, followed by an Xbox Series X\/S release in December. Developer Larian Studios took a long time to make a concrete announcement about an Xbox Series X\/S port, but when it was revealed, speculation started regarding Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 on Xbox Game Pass. This would be a great way to make up for the late launch of the game, as Xbox fans waited months to play it. Unfortunately, the people who want to play Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 on Xbox Game Pass might be waiting a long time, as Larian Studios has made a definitive statement about the title\u2019s future on Microsoft\u2019s video game subscription service. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 won\u2019t be coming to Xbox Game Pass anytime soon Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke revealed in an interview with IGN that it won\u2019t appear on Xbox Game Pass, and there have never been plans to bring it to the service. \u201cOh, we always said from the get-go, it wasn\u2019t going to be on Game Pass, it\u2019s not going to be on Game Pass,\u201d Vincke said. \u201cWe made a big game, so I think there\u2019s a fair price to be paid for that, and I think that that is okay.\u201d \u201cWe don\u2019t charge you any micro-transactions on top of it, so you get what you pay for. Upfront it\u2019s 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.\u201d Releasing a meaty game with no microtransactions hasn\u2019t stopped other third-party developers from putting their titles onto Xbox Game Pass. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is a critical and commercial hit, however, giving the developers a lot of leeway with monetizing the game. This isn\u2019t to say that Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 will never be on Xbox Game Pass. The game is a hit right now, but sales will eventually die down, and Microsoft is known to pay a lot of money to bring big titles to the service. If Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 gets paid DLC, that will also be an incentive to put it on Game Pass. It\u2019s disappointing that Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 won\u2019t be coming to subscription services so soon, but it didn\u2019t win all those awards for nothing. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 is a massive game with acclaim pouring in from every corner of the Internet, so it\u2019s well worth its price tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 won\u2019t be coming to Xbox Game Pass says boss: \u201cThere\u2019s a fair price to be paid\u201d Microsoft\/Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s director has confirmed that the game won\u2019t appear on PC\/Xbox Game Pass anytime soon due to the game\u2019s value for money. Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 had a sporadic release schedule throughout 2023. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}