Baldur’s Gate 3 was officially revealed during the Google Stadia Connect conference today, but it will not be a Stadia exclusive. Developer Larian Studios tells IGN that while its very excited about Stadia and wants to support the streaming platform, it also doesn’t want to take away player choice as a result.

“There is no exclusive attachment to Stadia,” Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke told us, saying that it would still be coming to other storefronts as well, and not require Stadia to play – in fact, Steam and GOG store pages for both of those sites went up alongside the announcement today.

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“It was important to us to tell our players ‘we’re not going to participate in the exclusivity game,’” Vincke explained. That’s obviously a hot topic right now as the Epic Games Store continues to pull exclusive games away from Steam, and Vincke has made it crystal clear here that they are not interested in doing the same for any platform.

“ Baldur's Gate 3 will have "over 100 hours of content," and Larian believes Stadia will make playing through that in multiplayer a lot easier.

The assumption from many was that the Baldur’s Gate 3’s announcement during the Stadia Connect might mean it was only available to subscribers of Google’s new service, but it was actually driven by Vincke’s genuine enthusiasm for Stadia as a technology. “I am a very big believer in Stadia,” Vincke said. “It makes [games] actually platform agnostic, and that’s something that I’ve always wanted to have.”

“I believe that the game should adapt to the device, but that the device shouldn’t matter when you play it,” Vincke explained, likening it to their efforts to make Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2 play smoothly on both PC and consoles. “That’s literally what Stadia is doing also, so that’s where that worked out well.”

He also said Stadia’s promise of better interconnectivity, including being able to simply send links to other players that allow them to join you in-game, was very appealing: “We’re making a game that has over 100 hours of content, so if you want to play that multiplayer it takes a lot of investment and syncing up with each other. If they can just do it on one link on any device that’s a lot easier to start doing it rather than having to sit behind your PC.”

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“So that’s the thing that attracted me to Stadia when they started talking about it, and that’s why I said ‘we really have to be doing this,’” Vincke continued, “because if I can just have people send links to each other, say ‘try it out, we’re playing Baldur’s Gate 3,” that’s going to help a lot with the game.”

Vincke also said he’s excited that Stadia will allow Larian to “put the production values up without having to worry too much about the min-specs.” Since all of the graphics processing will be handled by Stadia’s servers, you won’t have to pay for a pricey PC to play it on the highest graphics settings. “It’s really cool tech so I really hope it succeeds, because it’s a democratization of the platform.”

For More about Baldur’s Gate 3 and Google Stadia, check out our interview with Larian about their big announcement, or all the biggest news from Stadia's first Connect stream. BG3 has been confirmed to be among the games coming to E3 2019, so be sure to check out our E3 event hub for all the updates from the big show.

Tom Marks is IGN's Deputy Reviews Editor and resident pie maker. You can follow him on Twitter