“I can imagine that we will never manage to find the balance that will please everyone,” says Vincke. But, there is a (sort of) solution: “The game will be moddable eventually, so people will be able to make their mods. I expect multiple flavors of Baldur’s Gate 3 to come out of that. Over time there will be probably a flavor that will appeal hopefully to everybody.”
Not happy with this article at all. This is a dodge and lazy one at that.
I read this to say "if there is a difference of opinion about a game mechanic we'll use that difference of opinion as an excuse not to change -- hopefully the modders will you out". There are *always* differences of opinion and you only a need a few dedicated people to put up the illusion of a strong difference of opinion.
This is the part that makes me concerned as well... I was hoping I'm just reading it as a pessimist, but apparently I'm not alone in having this impression.
Most of all I just fear this means no effort will be made to address "this does not feel like BG" complaint. Sure, people can't agree what is it that makes BG BG, but what they generally do agree on is that the game does not feel like BG. And it's not just the very complainy people like yours truly. It's something mentioned in many reviews that are otherwise very positive. So Larian not addressing this at all... that would be the final nail to BG3-as-a-BG-game's coffin.
That is the problem. We should find words we agree upon concerning "it's not a BG". And it should not be, and sound like "the grass was greener". And it may be harder to find the words to encompass all that, than finding a solution by Larian.
