Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Pls stop this.

If there is 1% chance that someone is reading this from Larian. Then pls close some threads.
Because some ppl became Brutally harassing fanatics of BG3 .
Going into other games forum and also dooing it here as well.
It even arrived to journalists and they are written about this situation. Another great example that they harassed a yourtube content creator and that person was dooing content for BG3 til now. Now that person stopped and gived out that statement (No more BG3).
I know that Dubai is brutally attacks this forum but something need to be done. At least I feel that.

I just don't want to turn the hate aganst BG3 and Larian. But I think if we look around the forum a little bit better we can see the signs. I could post some links what happened but I don't want more hate and harassment towards them.

While there is a dedicated cadre of posters here who are not merely content with quietly disliking the game, and are compelled to regularly let us know that they still do not like the game and think it’s entirely undeserving of all its praise, it’s pretty uncommon that I see anything amounting towards harassment.


That’s not really how it works. If you don’t cite sources, it’s hard to take your claims seriously.

Post your source.

In less then 5 min internet search.

https://www.dualshockers.com/starfield-will-outlast-baldurs-gate-3/
The yourtuber I will not link that person had enough from bg3 soccer fans. Do your own search.

Grow up and stop basing your identity on a video game.

A vast majority of users here and moderators are actually pretty good and decent human beings who are constantly stepping in to ensure things remain as polite and calm as they can be, so not sure where you've seen this supposed toxic behavior here because the forums are ever under the watchful eyes of good people. One of the rare places where a forum feels like an actual community,

Steam forums on the other hand are the complete opposite. Never seen so many primitive neanderthals rounded up and wreaking havoc in such a small space who are just looking to provoke, annoy, harass, insult, instigate wars and spew as many racist or anti-human vile filth as they possibly can without getting banned... but Larian openly admitted they only moderate if someone is fighting.

BG3 has a ton of praises which in today's day and age means bored immature goblins will come out of their mom's basement to intentionally provoke others and get reactions. Not sure who, what, how and why got bullied... I googled and did not find anything of note so not gonna waste more time trying to find out. Clearly not a big deal if I have to dig deeper than I already have.

But in any case, these forums I can vouch had nothing to do with it.

Why would we be researching something like this?

You are trying to attributing something that few people did to general mass.

I don't care about this article, it can says whatever it wants.

I personally pity Starfield because it doesn't achieve the heights it want to achieve.

We are not in the "Console war". We are cRPG fans.

cRPG fans doesn't care what some streamer who probably doesn't understand what RPG is (who probably also think JRPG is RPG lmao, it's not), think of BG3.

There are a couple of times I've seen some things get less than polite in the Hotfix notes. I was kind of involved with one but quickly backed off when the moderators hopped in and told everyone to simmer down.

They do a good job of that here.

However, I've definitely seen that the people willing to defend BG3 harshly tend to follow ZOZO1006 around and it isn't always justified. Sometimes, it's harmless criticisms.

But on the other hand, ZOZO, you can be a little antagonistic when it comes to posters coming to the defense of the game. You like to call them "soccer fans" to invalidate their opinions and that just causes drama for no reason.

I understand that you've had some unfortunate bugs with the game that you've been looking to get help for and people have mentioned a little too harshly that you need to calm down. But, there's no reason to take it too personal; it is the internet after all.

For the most part, I believe the moderators on this forum are doing a great job and if you have any harassment issues, message them. They will likely assess in good time.

These sorts of conversations are fascinating. Discussing the game in depth and comparing it to another game, critically. It makes me think this is what would have been like book clubs years ago. People got together to discuss literature and express their opinions about a novel they'd just read. it's the same thing today, only with gaming as the storytelling medium in question.

I watch a lot of BG3 content on YouTube, but I have never seen harassment in the comments. People state opinions, but mostly in s pretty friendly way.
I would say, that most discussions here are mostly friendly too. Sometimes it can get a bit heated, but all in all, this is one of the friendliest forums, I have been to so far.
If someone gets harassed, that is not ok of course and should be addressed, but I don't think Larian or the mods here can do anything against that. I doubt, the people harassing that YouTuber are regular user from this forum, I can't see anyone here starting to harass someone.
People here are critical about the game sometimes, just look at the suggestion thread or character and story.

And if someone likes Starfield better or any other game, why should I care? BG 3 is very successful, but it is still a very specialised game and probably not for everyone. No one should harass someone about their gaming preferences ( or anything really).
The only thing one can do, is report people, who harrass, call them out and make it clear, you don't stand for that.
People have the right to like, what they want and a game doesn't get bad for me, just because someone else doesn't like it.

I ain’t gonna spend five minutes looking for an article you claimed to have already found.

All that article had was a link to another article about some console war nonsense on Twitter.

I am 99% sure this is some kind of proxy console wars.

People who's been waiting for this game for years do not care about Starfield that much to make a direct comparison between it and BG3 - because they probably understand that both are different games.

The You vs Me mentality reeks Console Wars.

I think we should not continue this thread discussion and just ignore this.

I actually don't follow Starfield or Cyberpunk or whatever. I'm not that interested in those games, so why should I start a pudding contest about which game is better or more successful. I know there is a thread about basically that here in the forums, but I said my part there - live and let live. What do I care, if another game is more successful or better received? BG 3 sold good and has good reception, so my little DnD heart can realistically hope, that there will be more DnD related games in the future, so I'm content. And I guess, the Bethesda fans are content with Starfield too, so we all got, what we wanted.
Even the people, who like DnD, but don't like BG3, because this game hopefully opened up the market.

On these forums it’s fine both to love the game or to hate it, as long as we’re happy to discuss it in a constructive and friendly way with other community members and do our best to avoid provoking unpleasant heated debates (this isn’t about what we say, but how we say it: angry and emotional posts tend to elicit equal and opposite reactions in a way that calmly stating issues and problems doesn’t). Trying to shut down opposing views, especially with rudeness or by personal attacks, isn’t okay on either side, and while it’s understandable that folk respond in kind to emotive posting it’s better if they try to de-escalate or don’t engage rather than respond in kind. I hope we can all accept that occasionally folk get frustrated and just need to blow off a little steam, and as long as we’re not doing that by insulting others that’s something we can allow each other.

As mods, we’ll intervene if we think we see things getting unpleasant here, but don’t have any control over what happens elsewhere.

And we really do need folk to report posts that they think cross the line. We don’t have time to read everything so it’s the only way to be sure we’ll see what’s going on. Plus when judgements on whether something has tipped over from lively but healthy debate can be subjective, it’s incredibly helpful to get folk’s input to ensure we’re neither being too quick to shut things down nor letting things go on too long.

There is a very easy button available to you to flag a post as harassing. It's the little flag, imagine that, in the upper right corner of anyone's post. Making some vague call-out to moderators to "close some threads," without any specifics given, or a post mentioned or linked, is not just unhelpful, it reeks to me of bait. If you are feeling generally harassed by a group of people whose opinions differ from your own, and who take the time to state that articulately in an internet forum, I'm afraid you may be in the wrong place. I've discussed differences of opinions with a lot of people here, and sure, sometimes there's a little vitriol thrown around, but I'm here for it. I knew that would/could be the case, and I never take it personally. You can take it personally, you have that right, but not everything posted that is in disagreement with your views is personal. If you found someone's reply to a post of yours to be personal and harassing, please, by all means, click the flag, make a report. That will be way more helpful than just asking the mods to "close some threads," without telling anyone which threads you mean and why.