[...] Of course there is a lot of hype in two different camps:
1. D:OS fans who are simply looking forward to a new Larian game
2. Baldur´s Gate veterans who expect a real Baldur´s Gate game. I would even split the BG camp again into the hardcore fans (who hope for a game in the style of the original game) and the moderate fans, who also accept changes / innovations.
In each of the two BG veteran camps, everyone has their own ideas about a Baldur's Gate game. [...]
If you need to do this, than there is in camp 2 in addition this 'BG isn't just about DnD-movement, this is based too much on the DnD rule'-movement
and you completely left out camp 3. 'This isn't close enough to the current 5e rules' - camp, so the DnD-purists.
and then, and then.... What a conflict of goals, alone 2 & 3? Is it? Seen from that perspective, let's just hope that Larian sticks true to their vision, since everybody's darling is everybody's bit*h. And really no one would like that.
Anyway, I am pretty sure, that nobody ever intended BG or DnD or cRPGs to be something that splits people into camps fight each other personally.
In my handbook of the original saga, right on page 3, within the introduction by David Cook, he says about the game (translated from german):
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That you play it, and have fun with it, that's the point of it. And I wish you this fun.
I can't find a remark that means to become nasty from playing. There's an adventure waiting. This should bring us together. Camps need a bonfire.
