[mathgeek]

If you check the article, it’s mostly other developers urging folks to not hold indie and smaller developers to a standard set by 400 developers spending six years working on a title in a genre they have previous success in.

[015a]

Its developers from Xbox, Blizzard, and Obsidian among the indie devs. They do get to be compared. In fact, they should be exceeding the quality of Larian, or at least matching their peers at Playstation and Nintendo; but they aren't. You don't get to spend $70 billion dollars on an acquisition then expect pity from your customers because, gosh darn it, Larian just has so much passion and skill, give us a break we don't know how to make world-leading games anymore!

No one is going off to compare Baulders Gate 3 to, I don't know, Hollow Knight (actually, that might be a fine comparison!). They will compare it to Avowed, TES6, Starfield, and Diablo 4. It should be no surprise that there's a lot of people inside Xbox who feel embarrassed about comparisons like that.

[itsdrewmiller]

Doesn't read like they are arguing on behalf of their own studios to me.