Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback So is Larian actually listening to feedback here?

It sounded like a mockery on their part, given that there are a lot of topics on the forum with feedback about evil root, where it is explained in detail what they did wrong and how to do it better. 50-50 should be Larian's goal, and it's totally possible if they listen to us.
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i think we can all agree that while we have been enjoying the game and ea content for the most part thus far, that there are some significant forum topics (combat gameplay, camera/companion controls, narrative/story elements) that get alot of discussion here that would benefit larian to comment on, even if just to say that they are aware and interested in seeing what the community thinks

as someone who was late to the larian dos1/2 party and isnt as familiar with what the ea process for those games were, is there any insight or expectations the community can take from larian's responses to feedback for those games that we can apply here to bg3?

Fucks sake, your game is being made, let me try to get mine.

I also like jump and shove, but it's ridiculously implemented atm

The problem with a lot of features currently subject to criticism is that it's a "now or never" scenario.
There's no "Maybe they'll talk about this in few months". They either recognize that there is a problem immediately (and then they can feel free to take all the time they want to fix it) or they can keep pretending all is jolly and dandy and let these issues cripple the overall quality of their product.

Which would be a shame, because there's so much here to love.
I've been playing the Baldur's Gate games since the day the first one launched, I loved them for years, I often listed BG2 as possibly my favorite RPG of all times* and I still think Larian here have the building blocks ready to create a game capable to surpass the originals.
IF they readjust the aim now in some minor areas.


* despise a certain amount of shortcomings.

Not only here. everywhere! even on reddit people don't automatically downvote you if you say the evil path needs work. I don't know which option is worse - that Larian is not aware that people think that, or that they are aware and trying to piss on us.

i think they will start looking at improvements at proper time, all we propose here are improvements, you don't try to make your product nicer or cooler while things are still broken in many places, at least you shouldn't do that, is all about priorities

I have the same feelings as you (and I usually agree with you) but I think more and more that we will both be disappointed...

Yeah bro i definately filled that out as soon as i knew it existed.

I've deleted facebook due to the silliness and politicization of all things or i wouldve shared it on there too.

Ah, a fellow wrath tester. After playing both it's hard not to compare the two, for me wrath is winning out by a huge margin. Just my opinion.

true. but still:
"74.85% of you stood with the Tieflings, and 25.15% of you sided with Minthara. Good outweighs evil, it seems.

An optimistic note to end on. "
that's it I'm adding this line to my signature

In 3 weeks they never communicated on combat mechanics and other feedbacks, i think that it shows quite well that they will never do it in the future...
I liked the 40 hours of my run except for many things that are listed in the feedback threads, but let's be honest, they have a vision of what their Baldur's gate should be and they will never deviate from their path.
Sad but i have no hope regarding feedbacks listening .

They didn't communicate about anything don't exclude the other aspects of the game they said nothing about

I work in data science and analytics. I really hope some marketer wrote that to be cute because if those are the insights their analysts derived from this, I have zero confidence in Larian Studios’ capability to correctly analyze any data.

I’ve remained neutral-to-optimistic on my experience so far, but this latest communication kicked my enthusiasm for the game square in the nuts.

Clearly the neat stats they've shown us so far are just fun facts they want to present to humor us. Like who players are romancing or how many times the dog has been pet. Doesn't make me think "they're using this data to conclude that Shadowheart needs to be more attractive". Similarly, I wouldn't think anything of the good vs evil route.

Did you read the part where I say "I don't demand anything, they are not required to implement all the feedback just because"?

Very well said. Those are big decisions to be made, but they need to be made (or at least seriously discussed internally) now, not when the game is about to be released. I'm not saying they should do anything without proper consideration or churn out the patch with 3 overhauls tomorrow - but now is the time to start doing something about underlying systems in the game.

That said - perhaps something IS being done about those and we just don't know that. Perhaps they are internally testing stuff we've been vigorously discussing over the past weeks and aren't telling us so we can't tell them "U FUCKEN PROMISED" should they change their minds.

Though even then - it would alleviate some... player anxiety if they stated something like "We are aware of several major points of discussion regarding game systems and we are working on some of them. We'll share more specifics once we feel more confident about releasing these for public testing.".

If I'm not mistaken, Swen said (German streamers twitch interview) that they were planning to release some info on "this feature is currently in the works". I'm very surprised it's still not here. Like people have been suggesting the dialogue improvements (the whole party talks) since EA launched and we know (from the same interview) it's something that was supposed to be included on EA release but wasn't ready.

True. GGG's commuication is probably the best in the industry. I recall during Closed Beta (man I miss the Fellshrine runs) I issued some serious negative feedback within the game, not even the forums. After a few hours I had a PM in my inbox from Chris Wilson apologizing. I'm not kidding. Still got the PM in my box after all those years. I felt pretty bad though after receiving it and apologized back

Those release are mostly going to marketing oriented. They're under no obligation to share in depth analysis with us, and to be honest, doing such would turn off a lot of audiences.

People need to realize this is beta and were bug smashers that's it. God i hope you can mo1d this game