Right it’s a cheat to take a character (I’m talking main game not EA) that you worked on geared and equipped, and take them to a new game or different game. This is cheating.
Yes. Yes, it is cheating. This may be a difficult concept for you to wrap your head around, but if the game is balanced so that a level 2 character with nothing can survive the early encounters, a level 10 character fully loaded is going to have no problems beating those same encounters. Whether other games allow you to cheat in that manner is not relevant - it's still cheating there, too.
Im not talking about mercenaries or any other lame ass BS, im talking about true character imports/exports. I feel calling yourself Baldur's Gate and not having one of its most favorited features, youre not listening to people. If youre not going to listen, im not going to spend a year saving you tester fees by playing your hollow broken game.
Sorry that "THE GAME MUST LET ME TRIVIALIZE COMBAT" is your red line for the game. You also seem to have a very wrong concept of what EA means. It does not mean that Larian is obligated to implement every single suggestion that every single forums poster makes. You are not being oppressed because Larian isn't putting in a feature that you (and pretty much
only you) feel strongly about.
