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Microsoft completely misjudged Baldur’s Gate 3
(www.polygon.com)
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There is a difference between misjudging the success and betting on the failure.
Did you read the paper? BG3 was assessed far below just dance or let's sing ABBA! It was at the very bottom of the list!
I bought the game blind a year before release. Not to test it but because I knew were I was going. Of course I had big fears about it because many games pretended to be BG successors and I didn't want to get my expectations too high. But I didn't know anything about it because I didn't want to spoil the surprise.
The information was there. I don't know why journalists to whatever didn't saw it coming but I was prepared for it being a big thing for me. It is litteraly their job to assess whether a game will work or not. They bet on failure. They couldn't be more wrong, and I don't think there was any sign of failure.
It was expected to be a second release after being a Stadia exclusive. This isn't judging quality, just impact.
Edit: and let's not pretend by adding "far below" when it was in the same group. And the ranking isn't even totally based on expected sales. The asking prices and the levels aren't in order. You're misinterpreting one quote entirely incorrectly and trying assuming too much from a chart.