Originally Posted by Nyloth
Originally Posted by Innateagle
Honestly weird reading all this talk about the silent millions. Larian can't get 10k likes on twitter for the EA trailer, and the cinematic trailer on youtube got barely 1m views after almost 2 years. Seems like people like the shiny new thing - not even all that much - and not Larian.

Which is understandable, this is their first mainstream project, but alse makes it pretty hysterical that the one change they wouldn't have done otherwise, until now, (in the EA, not crowdfund gig) is making one of their characters smile more. Guess next one will be buff elf romance. If it isn't already there for a druid, that is.

That's about marketing. I'll be happy if they spend money on the game, not on marketing (like CD Projekt Red lol). This is how social networks and algorithms work. So all those likes don't really matter.

It would be very revealing if they had a lot of dislikes and few likes (hello blizzard), it would show a negative reaction from the community.

I sure hope they're spending all their money on the game. Hopefully it's enough to do properly all the things they wanna do.

But, anyway, my argument is that the main draw is Baldur's Gate, and there are no millions. And that, as of right now, the one big community-influenced 'fix' they implemented, that wasn't somethign so blatant they could have seen by themselves, was making SH smile more.

Like, i'm not even a big gameplay guy, my main thing is the story/lore/characters(/how messy those still are to explore), and i can't say i'm impressed.