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This game is huge. It's 4 modern games in one. I am curious how one keeps a budget for a game like this. I agree love and passion are the reason this game is doing well, but honestly how do you convince the money to invest in something like, besides the trend of copying BG3 simply due to success?

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> honestly how do you convince the money to invest in something like, besides the trend of copying BG3 simply due to success?

you cannot. The money is interested in making more money. Good art may, or may not make money - and that's because the goal of the artist(s) aren't aligned with making money. It just so happens that it _could_ make money, and thus that became the pitch to investors.

If given the chance (imagine an unlimited UBI for example), the same artists would make such a game without investors (and might make an even better one...).

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