Microsoft has had a pretty eventful day, with dozens of industry secrets leaking and Xbox head Phil Spencer 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:having to come ou🐎t and do damage control. A bunch of interesting information about Xbox's near future ha♛s surfaced thanks to court documents accidentally released by Microsof🎀t, including information on what the company was expecting to pay to get certain games on Xbox Game Pass.
In a lengthy court document listing games and the likelihood of potential Game Pass deals (thanks ), Microsoft reveals the cash its willing to spend on getting certain games on the service. At the higher end, Microsoft was expecting to pay out over $300 million to get Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on the service and $250 million for either Mortal Kombat 1 and Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Th🦩ey're all blockbusters, sure, but that's almost $1 billion spent on just Gꦦame Pass deals.
However, there's one blockbuster on the list that Microsoft was expecting to pay nothing close to to what it was expecting for the big guns, and that's Baldur's Gate 3. At just $5 million, Microsoft was hoping it could bag what would eventually go on to become arguably 2023's biggest release, putting it alongside other titles like Return to M൩onkey Island and Ubisoft'sꦡ Just Dance series. Safe to say, they'll be paying a lot more than that now if it wants Baldur's Gate 3 on its service.
To be fair to Microsoft, it's easy to point and laugh in hindsight, though $5 million is still ridiculously low considering how well-received Divinity: Original Sin 2 was. As explained by Larian's director of publishing Michael Douse, anyone that hadn't sunk hundreds of hours into the Early Access version of Baldur's Gate 3 couldn't have possibly predicted how much the game was going to explode in popularity. Even 𒊎those that saw Baldur's Gate 3 as the sleeper hit it became have to recognise the series and genre were considered pretty niche.
Theไse documents are also pretty old, and don't really reflect the ಞcurrent day attitudes Microsoft has to certain games these days. We can assume that Larian and Microsoft would happily agree a much more favorable deal nowadays if the former had a desire to put Baldur's Gate 3 on the service. It's just fun to see that even a mega-corporation like Microsoft had no idea the game would be as popular as it is.
In other Baldur's Gate 3 news, last month's treasure trove of cut content that was shared has revealed that Larian had originally planned for the game to include 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a werewolf bard companion, but it was scrapped. Along with Astarion, we really could have had our own 🧔Twil𓃲ight romance story.
