The problem is not expectations of players that expect a DnD experience the whole problem is that some takes the DnD setting and twists, warps and bastardises it to suite his own interest while luring in people under false premises.
The technology is there, it was there since the 80´s to make the most and best DnD game there is no excuse of its technically not possible, programming and coding is no dark magic anymore that only a few can do and unterstand.
The only thing is the ego of the people making the decisions.
Face it, we are here because of promises of DnD 5e Baldus Gate not because of any other reason.
I do not care for any other product that this company makes or did make in past all care for all I came for is BG3.
Then don't call your game BG 3 and give tons of interviews where you talk about how much you and your staff love how the games brought D&D rules to the computer.
BG and BG 2 made compromises when bringing the rules to the computer, when those spells or mechanics were limited by the systems utilized, especially the switch to RTwP. I understand why Wish can't work in a computer game. I also understand changes that a computer could do, but make sense not to incorporate in the video game world, like why spending 10 minutes Ritually Casting is unreasonable even though a computer is perfectly capable of doing so.
Larian changes aren't that. They have completely thrown out the balance of 5e. And with it, shock and awe, the game is terribly unbalanced. That's also why one or two changes aren't going to suffice. The easier solution, is to stick as close as you can to the rules and mechanics that have been playtested now for over half a decade, making changes as needed to account for having a digital DM rather than a human. That Larian thinks they know better is pretty arrogant.
this so much this.
I have talked to "game designers" and they are not right in there upper parts at all. They tend to have god complex and do not unterstand they create a product and the people willing to give money, or us idiots in this case that payed already and where trickt in to buying it, are asking for something they(the dev or designers) dont want, <keep that in mind, not "cant not create", they can!!! You have to beat that in there heads by force that they are not payed for there interpretation not for there "personal wants" or "needs" but for what the customer wants even if its against what they want to have.
Falls advertisement, whats on the box has to be in the box and so forth comes to mind here.
If you say and you did in the past that:
5e rules
DnD
Baldurs Gate
are in the product, then you better make sure its in the game or all hell brakes loose.
