Baldur's Gate 3 director and Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke has decided to share his views on the whole ‘subscription services eventually becoming the dominant way people access their games’ thing, offering a pretty admirable justification as to why you won’t see BG3 being distributed in that fashion.
In case you’re out of the loop, Ubisoft’s director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay recently kicked off a bit of a discourse by suggesting in an interview with GiBiz that players need to get more comfortable with the idea of not owning their games in a traditional fashion in order for subscription services to continue to take off in the gaming space. As you might expect, this hasn’t gone down too well with a lot of folks in and around the industry.
One of the most interesting responses to it so far has come from Vincke, who’s posted a lengthy twitter thread explaining his stance on the issue of subscription services versus the traditional method of pitching and releasing a game.