And considering how PoE2 underperformed and we might not see PoE3, it seems that not going traditional way is a smart financial move.
WotC gave licence to Larian precisely because of what they were doing, not in spite of it.
That was an issue of the setting, not of the game itself.
The amount of superstition is appalling. It's as if no one read scientific literature or papers on here. Let's say BG3 fails commercially, does that mean no one should ever try making a CRPG again? Or a CRPG with turn-based combat for that matter.
