I would like an official Community Update by Larian where they specifically mention a few of the big forum discussion topics, noting that these issues seem important to the players and at least saying that Larian is "looking into them to see if changes should be made."
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Did you see the interview I posted where they noted several issues that seem important and say they are looking into them and that they will be testing changes?
This interview?
I've gone through this article and pulled all relevant quotes
-"players are horny, so we've put a lot of effort into making sure the parts are there" (data metrics, not feedback)
-"Vincke notes that ...encounter to save some children has experienced heavy save scumming" (data metrics, not feedback)
-"We see the people that have really bad luck, and they are really, really angry over it. So we're going to...loaded die" (Feedback, but biased because Larian was already of this opinion. Also most people arguing against the RNG are claiming that it is unfair and have been proven wrong. But sure I'll give Larian half a point for this.)
-"Giving players things to do at the beginning...add a few things...to the fighter" is something Larian wants (Swen's personal opinion. Not based on any significant amount of forum posts)
-"There's been a group of people complaining about the fact that companions are snarky...we haven't put any of the 'good' characters in yet, so I think that will balance that" (Completely ignores feedback by saying that it's only because these companions are evil, not because they're unlikeable. I wouldn't categorize this as really 'listening' to our complaints.)
-Specific mention of evil options put in by the writers, but no mention of the players' response to this "evil" path (almost universally disliked/thought to be lacking depth/incentives)
-Specific mention of "surprised at how many betrayed the tieflings" even though Swen explicitly told us to test this path
-"The game will be moddable eventually" (implying that they won't listen to our feedback)
-"All of the things that people are suggesting were already on the list of things that we had to do...so they fit our roadmap. But there are things we hadn't thought of" (This is the closest we get to actual listening and responding to feedback, but note that nothing specific is mentioned)
This article? I count 3 explicit mentions of problems, 2 of which (snarky companions and evil path) are dismissed without really listening to the actual complaints. The other problem is about players not understanding RNG and is something Larian was already focusing on. Prior to this article, Larian said multiple times their opinion that "missing isn't fun." and had been considering loaded dice.
Edit: The takeaway I got from this article is that Larian has not as of yet considered doing any specific thing they weren't already planning on doing.
