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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago (4 children)

"Dublin firm behind Baldur's Gate game" has to be the longest possible way they could have written "Larian Studios."

Author getting paid per word or what?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's an Irish site and so they probably want to market this as a success for Ireland and not necessarily that a Belgium-based studio is just using their Ireland branch office for special tax status.

It's not just a shell company though, as the article highlights they do have their own development staff there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

I suspect in this case the reason was to hide the name "Larian Studios" to get a click out of people who don't know.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Wasn’t Larian based in Belgium?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Its likely that Baldur's Gate has more name recognition among readers of this paper than Larian does, so anchoring on that makes sense.