They want to appeal to oldschool fans. If you are really oldschool you remember a time where you did not have the internet to force your opinions on Game Developers by jumping on a bandwagon like here with the "BG3 is just DoS3". I am as oldschool as everyone been playing P&P DnD and Tabletop (as you mentioned BB) for almost 30 years and played all the oldschool games even back to the 80s. Give them the creative breathing room to make the game they want to make and then judge it afterwards. This pressure brigading on here wanting them to make a BG2 clone is tickling my grumpy senses. I can get some feedback like wanting the 6 person party but there are legitimate arguments for 4 as well.
I hope they have a thick enough skin and don't let them get influenced too much by these voices. When we get the Open Beta phase we will see if this game plays well or not. And ultimately its Gameplay together with Story and immersion and authenticity of the full package that decides if this game is good. And if its great you will buy it anyway contrary to what you posted here. We get this "You are not doing what I want I won't buy this" posts in every game community these days it is extremely childish and not the wisdom of old age.
