The biggest part of the ideas don't clash and the problems raised are very often the same... Even if there are lots of variety about solutions and even if "controversial" things like party size or HP bloat have more activity than other threads.
But after reading 160 forum pages of titles, tons of feedbacks and half the compendium... I think it's not impossible to create a mega list of suggestions that could pleased the huge majority of people talking here.
My main point was that there is no "perfect" consensus and there will always be someone that disagrees, but I agree that there's a lot of areas many players generally point out as problematic. There's also the problem of vocal minority and so on, and on the other hand even if we were able to do reliable statistics, they may not be good for anything, because a large portion of playerbase is casuals who'll just go "yeah, I'm fine with how it is now", even if they might enjoy the alternative more.
But don't get me wrong, personally I agree with many common points being made on these forums and I think the game would be better if they were addressed.
Originally Posted by Abits
You're right that "you can't please everyone" is no excuse, but it's not exactly what Sven said:
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“All of the things that people are suggesting were already on the list of things that we had to do,” says Vincke. “So they fit our roadmap. We are, to a large extent, in sync with our audience, I think. But there are things that we hadn't thought of. So it'll be interesting to see what they are going to add to the game.”
You can assume that when he says "all" he is a pretentious guy who didn't even read any feedback, or you can read the whole quote and assume that "all" was just a poor word choice, because later he specifically say there is some feedback he didn't think about. It goes back to my original title, how honest do you think he is?
Yeah, hence my disclaimer of "perhaps it's not whan Swen intended to say". I certainly don't take "all" in this interview literally, it's quite obvious he's just generalizing and I have no problem with that. My comment on "impossible to please anyone" was mainly based on the part about modding creating a BG3 flavour for everyone and partially on your earlier post. Now I'm probably reading too much into this, perhaps it's just Swen "PR-disaster" speak, haha. This is something that makes me worried (by being potentially implied), but by no means something I consider "outright stated by the devs".
