Five years ago, before Baldur's Gate 3 launched out of early access, Larian Studios publishing director Michael 'Cromwelp' Douse got drunk in a bar and scribbled the release date on a random bottle of whisky. It would've been a prized—if bizarre—leak had anyone found it. But nobody did.
Roll for perception... and that's a one.
As reported by GamesRadar+, Douse mused that it's a blessing that this drunken mistake went unnoticed, otherwise it could've become a bigger problem for him and the studio.
"In retrospect it's funny and not a legal issue," he tweeted. "Maybe I did it again? Who knows." I'm now left wondering if this is a wider habit among developers, and if I should be hoovering up whisky at every bar in the United States in the hopes of finding Half-Life 3's release date—then again, I like my liver.
As many commenters have pointed out, even if someone did miraculously find the bottle, and somehow knew that it was from a Larian dev, it wouldn't have been accurate anyway.
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