I wish there would be a little more communication from Larian so we have an idea of what feedback they’re addressing and we’re not repeating the same conversations over and over. They seem to like huge announcements accompanied by videos – which I love – but just having someone active on this forum or posting minor weekly updates would go a long way. D&D Beyond has some of the slowest development in the history of software, but they really engage with the customers, acknowledge bugs so you don’t need to report them dozens of times, and even do weekly dev video updates with Q&A. Imagine that!
The thing is, they know that gamers are fickle. So all of this irritation with their lack of professionalism will continue to build and build, but it'll eventually plateau because the consumerbase can't do much more than get themselves banned from this forum for aggressively denouncing their ineptitude out of frustration. And all Larian has to do is drop even an insignificant patch that corrects a handful of glaring issues to shut down the naysayers, give the cheerleaders some pep in their step, and they can buy themselves two-to-three more months of silence before they feel compelled to do their jobs again.
This is legitimately the worst EA process I've ever seen. It's bad when there's negligible advancement of the product, but it's terrible when there's not even a dialog between the developer and their jaded EA participants because they know that all they have to do is prop Sven up in a 5-minute long video talking about how much progress they've made and how thankful they are for our patience.
