The group that are okay with BG3 now are mostly people who never played BG2.
There are actually quite a few fans of BG 1 and 2 who are enthusiastic about BG3. As the game develops we'll be doing what we can to win over as many of those as possible who currently have concerns.
If this is true, and hope very much that it is, then shouldn't the critics be exactly the people you/Larian tries to engage with? But instead what I am seeing is you all cheerleading the fanboys and denigrating the critics.
I am very passionate in my criticisms precisely because I am a huge fan of the original games as well as the Forgotten Realms setting (of which I own every source book and almost every novel published). As such I have tried to engage in discussions on this forum about what I don't like about this game, not from a place of anger or hate but from a place of profound sadness - sadness at the thought that after waiting 20 years for another Baldur's Gate game, such a game finally gets made but it excludes me from being able to play it. But I can count on one hand the number of people on the other side from me who've been even remotely nice or civil in their responses.
You already have the D:OS fanbase on board. I am decidely NOT a part of that fanbase. But I am very much a part of the fanbases of the original BG games, the Forgotten Realms, and cRPGs. Isn't it precisely people like me you should be trying to win over?
