Originally Posted by Tuco
Originally Posted by Blackheifer
[quote=AlrikFassbauer]
This. +1 It needs little stars around it and hearts and dancing mermaids. The subtext here is also about the issue of "fan entitlement". I won't get into it, I've upset enough people today....
Nah, it's a bunch of hollow generalizations and "truisms" that sound somewhat smart without having any strong basis in reality or being backed by any meaningful evidence.

The assumption is always been that it's important to pander to the casual audience, but in reality the only thing the "casual audience" cares about is having something that looks good.
On basically any other metric their opinion is pretty much irrelevant on the popularity of the game, mostly because they hardly have strong opinions to begin with. Give them whatever and they will stick with it for a while, then their attention will fleet somewhere else. And that's true regardless of how "hardcore" or "piss easy" the game will be, for the most part.
I also want to add that all of that is fine if that's what you're going for. But I was under the impression Larian wants to make a new RPG legend, not a kind of fun game we'll forget about a month after it's release


Larian's Biggest Oversight, what to do about it, and My personal review of BG3 EA
"74.85% of you stood with the Tieflings, and 25.15% of you sided with Minthara. Good outweighs evil, it seems."