According to Reddit mods, they were contacted by Larian to have all suggestions in 1 megathread and pretty much said they aren't reading anything else. So, there are most likely a lot of voices they just aren't hearing and I have to assume that extends to this forum as well. It would also be safe to assume that at any given moment, they are doing exactly what they intend to be doing. Development is rarely unintentional and is more of a bug situation than a holistic accident. In the almost month since it launched, what changes have you seen that bring it in line with the complaints being seen across the forums? None. Fine, claim its technical issues first. It does not change the fact there has been no community alignment. We can keep waiting and, until it changes, the fact will remain they are not aligning with the community and have at no point said they intend to be.
As far as I am concerned, these forums are a way for people who are playing BG3 to gather and shoot the shit with each other with, taken current circumstances, a most likely misplaced hope it is reaching them. This is a social club, I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but they are developing with intent and the EA is their current vision until we see or hear otherwise.
Orbax, wouldn’t that be a thing directly to the feedback gathered in Reddit?
I mean, in Reddit the feedback will be gathered inside the megatreads but it doesn’t mean that Larian is getting feedback from a single source. Am I wrong ?
Every forum, including this one, has a single megathread suggestion compendium. I would assume they would standardize their methodologies in all forums Steam, Reddit, Larian, and elsewhere to monitor a single thread that is meant to be pure suggestion feedback as opposed to memes, jokes, bugs, esoteric ramblings, and speculations as to whether they are they are the correct studio to be developing this. Instead of reading every random thread to its full extent and weeding through debates - go to the distilled source, the drop box. Maybe they do have an intern who takes a few xanax and muddles through it all but if I had to bet on where to go for the 90% thats quick, and you might miss out on the 10% that takes 50x longer to comb through, Id bet that they do what they have explicitly stated that they do for Reddit and go for the 90%. I can't think of a reason they'd have snowflake rules for every forum the monitor.
Like I said, maybe I am wrong. It would be cool to be in this case because all they've provided for us to date is a BG3 EA fanclub chatroom, not a forum where ideas are exchanged vertically with the ones running it. If someone came in right now and said "no, we totally read it!" we'd be like cool! Then the next update is stats mined from the the game and visible rolls for MP parties and some graphics fixes. Then we never hear from them again. So, it is what it is for the moment. Everyone is just hoping it becomes something else.
