Bunny Garden 2 Pauses Development for a Day as World Cup Champion Celebrates Champagne

After the 2026 World Cup final, Sven Vincke said on social media that Larian Studios' Barcelona office would pause work on the new mainline Divinity sequel for one day after Spain won the tournament. Spain beat Argentina 1-0 after extra time in the final, and Vincke, Larian's founder and the lead figure behind Baldur's Gate 3, said Spain deserved to be called the best team at this World Cup.

As football decisions go, this one is easy to parse. Spain had just beaten Argentina 1-0 to lift the World Cup, and Barcelona was hardly going to sleep through it. Larian's Spanish staff celebrating through the night was less a workplace issue than the obvious aftermath of a national title.

Vincke did not try to drag everyone back to their desks the next morning. Instead, he gave the whole Barcelona office a paid day off, letting development on the new mainline Divinity entry pause for the day while the studio's Spanish employees celebrated.

The notable part is that Sven Vincke is Belgian. Earlier in the tournament, when Spain knocked out the Belgian national team, he had already allowed Larian's Spanish employees to throw a party. In football terms, that means the boss watched his own side go out, then still let his Spanish staff celebrate properly.

That detail says more than a boilerplate line about studio culture. Larian's management appears able to separate morale from production planning, and to treat a rare national moment as something worth absorbing rather than suppressing.

For players, the practical question is obvious: does this hurt the new Divinity game? Based on the original information, Larian's Barcelona branch is currently one of the main teams working on this new large-scale RPG, and overall development is still progressing steadily. A single day without work is not expected to have a material negative effect on the release plan or the development schedule.

That reading makes sense. Large RPG development rarely turns on one missed day. The bigger risks usually arrive later, when builds come together, content is integrated, and quality control has to hold up across the rest of production.

The community response has been amused, but mostly grounded. Many players joked that the only real danger would come if Spain's employees were so swept up in the win that a one-day holiday somehow turned into a longer break. That, not the official day off, would be the sort of thing that could slow the new game's development.

At the same time, plenty of players praised the studio's management for letting staff enjoy the moment without treating the project as an afterthought. It is an understandable response. The team that made Baldur's Gate 3 knows better than most how valuable morale can be during a long RPG production cycle.

For anyone waiting on the next Divinity, there is no reason to treat this one-day pause as a serious production warning sign. It looks more like a brief, visible pause after a championship win, and unlikely to change the larger schedule unless the celebration somehow keeps going beyond the day Vincke actually approved.