Is that warning for me as well? I thought I was being okay. If not, I'm sorry. I'm trying to keep it light and funny.
You have been at the centre of several ill-tempered exchanges on these forums and been warned before. You are attracting the wrong sort of attention and it might be wise to see where you are going wrong and alter how you communicate here. One hint is to avoid constantly playing the 'but all I'm trying to say is...' card.
I'm going to be honest Sadurian. I am sorry to be a problem for you, but it does frustrate me and it saddens me a lot. I've been in love with BG3 since before it was released. Got all hyped about the game. Wanted to be apart of it. Made my wallpapers images of the game. This is the first Early Access I've ever been apart of and the first forum discussions on a video game I've ever joined. The game means a lot to me.
I started on Steam. Tried to post feedback there. The community was so toxic. Every time I'd put anything out there, anything at all, no matter how minor or reasonable or logical, it'd get attacked. Viciously. No matter how polite or positive I'd try to be, whether I ignored them or not and whether I reported them or not, they'd attack me and verbally bash me and others to pieces. The negativity drove me to look for another avenue to escape from all that just so I could play the game and offer feedback in a more positive environment. I'd even post threads about glitches in the game, and people would respond with, "Get gud and stop sucking. It's not a glitch." I mean, when the game literally glitches on you so that an enemy gets to go twice before your character goes once even though your character was not surprised and was in initiative order so that they should have gone next, that seems like a glitch to me, and even if it isn't, what was so wrong with reporting it as a glitch? Isn't it Larian's job to decide whether it is actually a glitch? I reported said people even, and nothing was done.
So I said, "Maybe Larian's own forums will be better," and they are. They are certainly better than Steam.
But I am still attacked verbally and abused while trying to offer Larian my opinions and feedback. Instead of saying nothing, people out here on the forum feel it is their job to attack me and call me names. It's seems to me like it's okay for people to go out here and verbally call me an idiot and dumb and say that my opinions are stupid and they can be all sarcastic and so forth and it's okay for people to post hostile remarks and comments. Then, if I get upset and respond in any way, even when I'm just trying to explain where I'm coming from, hoping to get them to see my reasoning, then I'm viewed as the instigator and the one at the center of the exchanges. I respect you. I really do. If you feel I'm the problem, then I'll try to change the way I do things. I'll try to ignore these people more, if you still let me be apart of it all after giving you this honest feedback. I'm just saying, it's frustrating and it discourages me from ever wanting to be apart of any future Early Accesses and frankly it makes me not want to be a Larian customer in the future. When people can insult me and get away with it, and then I'm the one who is being told that I'm at the center of it, yeah... that hurts. I know I'm not alone in this too. I've read more than 1 comment from someone fed up with these forums. They're also tired of being mocked and ridiculed and harassed whenever they give their opinion. No matter how positive I try to be, they keep blasting me. It is NOT a fun environment.
This said, I get that I should ignore people like this. I should be the more mature one. As I said, if you let me continue to post stuff, I will take your advice to heart and try to ignore said individuals. I will try to not use certain language that might attract them to further respond in a negative way. I really REALLY don't like being mixed up in these messes anyway. I even had another person just recently private message me with the same advice. Just stop responding to them and I'll be happier. So I will try to do that.
But just please understand that it does get difficult to do this when you are trying to read through people's legitimate feedback. I don't always agree with people on the forum, but if you notice the ones who are respectful I do read and appreciate and often times they change my mind on things. (Case in point, the guy who corrected me about Druids and Owlbears. He posted a response, disagreed with me, I read it, I agreed I was wrong. It was all good. I respected that. I have also admitted that I was wrong about the hag lair.)
I'm a paying customer. I love the game. The fact that Im even writing all this should tell you how much I love the game.
However, this experience has weakened my love for both game and company, especially getting reprimanded and warned by you and others when I'm just trying to defend myself and no one else is. I know I'm not alone. I've read other people's comments as well who have said the same thing. We are tired of posting suggestions when all we get is attacked. I defend myself, but I might get banned while the guy who instigated it all, who insulted me repeatedly, gets to continue to offer his toxic opinions. It's not right.
Anyway. I've spent enough of your time and mine.
Totally Genuinely Not Trying to Be a Drama Queen Discouraged,
Gm4Him
