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Larian Had To Move 90 Percent Of Baldur's Gate 3 Devs Because Of The War In Ukraine

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Jul 15, 2024

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Larian Studios relocated 90 percent of its St Petersburg team after Russia invaded Ukraine.
CEO Swen Vincke reveals that they set up a task force to handle each employee on a case-by-case basis.
This meant "fighting with embassies and consultants" as Vincke knew that all of his team was going to war.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3 was hit by some major setbacks during development. Like every other studio, Larian had to adjust to the restrictions put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it also wanted to ensure the safety of its employees amidst 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

"I had already thought about what we were going to do if it actually happened," Vincke told Edge magazine, discussing the St Petersburg team (as reported by ). "So the decision was instant: we can't stay there. We needed to move people away because, as these things go, you can almost predict that eventually there's going to be a mobilisation, and that meant that all my team was going to go to war."

All my team was going to go to war.

Larian Studios formed a task force of legal and finance teams that "work🌞ed day and night" to relocate employees in a way that worked for each of them individually. But this meant that they were "fighting with embassies and consultants" in what Vincke describes as a "really complicated" situation. Thankfully, in the end, they moved a staggering 90 percent of staff out of Russia.

Relocating Staff Had A Huge Impact On Baldur's Gate 3 Development

female character using magic in baldur's gate 3 — via Larian Studios

Ded🍷icating time and effort to moving nearly an entire team out of the country and into other studios had an impact on 💯development, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic which was hitting studios small and large across the globe.

"In a machine as complicated as an RPG, where everything's connected to everything, if you suddenly start ripping stuff out, the entire thing collapses," Vincke said. "Because things that were supposed to be done are not being done. It's not that they didn't try, but it was really, really hard. You could see the ripple effect of that lasting all through the end of development."

Regardless, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3 won myriad awards and was heralded as one of the 𝓰best RPGs of all time, all while taking the time a🍰nd effort to keep its employees safe.