I have an issue with social medias, forums comprised: they gave a distort perception of reality.

Some numbers: in the Larian forums there are 57200 users, with inscriptions that range from 2003 to 2021, and wich comprises active and inactive users. Of this 38100 have made at least 1 post. Of this 38100 only 5811 have made at least 10 posts. Sadly I can not access the single room numbers so I don't have the specific vision of what happen in the BAldur's Gate 3.

Nevertheless in that 5811 users that post we have to account people asking for help and suggestions, people replying to threads, people posting in the other Larian games' rooms, that is the actual numerosity of people giving suggestions and feedback is a small fraction of all the actual players around the world.

I'm sure Larian reads and consider what is written in this forum "Feedback and suggestion" room. Still they wight what comes out from this pages with all the data they have from crashes and bugs reports, other platforms and so on.

I'm not surprised Larian seems to not align with some of the suggestions posted here. Suggestions and feedbacks that are deeply debated, there is not even a single feedback that has a majority consesus here, I wonder how much thos suggestions are really supported from all the players whose diversity and composition surelly is not represented by this forum.

A clear example of this is the paragon between the explotation of the possibilities given by the creation character options and the diversity of characters that comes out from the "Post a picture of you character" and the first analisys published by Larian that showed how the toons created by players was almost homogenous with human toons and human like elves being the most used.

Based on that I wonder how many people that is not in the forum really have issues with the perceived not accompliance with DnD core rules or lore? How many players are really annoyed by scroll and barrel mancy? How many buyers do find annoying the heigh/backstab perceived advantages? How many people has really reported the awful movement system? And so on.

Larian developpers have a lot more of data than the suggestion and feedback that comes from a part of this forum users.

I'll axe, or cheer, the game when it will be fully developed and out, until that I'll remember this is a really precocious early access and continue to debate about issues and suggestions but I'll, too, have in mind that even if Larian reads, and they've shown they do, this forum they weight whatever comes from here with all the data they have.

[Also at my age I know how to adapt and enjoy something even if is not made exactly as I want it].


Furthermore: refund? This is not a pre-order trial of a game, is a paid early access, I bought it with the consapevolence that the item could displease my expectations.