Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General RIP the patch every 2 weeks

Not to be (always) the party pooper but I want to oppose the ongoing agreement that even just a couple of teases on twitter and some generic "We are working really hard on cool things" would be enough.
Frankly that wouldn't be particularly different from what we are getting now. And having frequent and regular but ultimately hollow statements from the studio wouldn't really be a meaningful improvement.

What I'd like to see is clear statements about their short, mid and long terms goals. Nothing too detailed, frankly. I wouldn't be asking for minute weekly reports on every single bugfix or anything of that sort.
Frankly even an update every three months (or more) would be perfectly fine as long as we can have a honest insight on what's being worked on, as far as I'm concerned.

It's more a matter of addressing broad topics in less ambiguous terms.
Examples could be:

- "There is a general agreement that controls in the game are fairly bad [and no, it's not just my personal bias, there's almost universal agreement wherever the topic comes up. Even and maybe ESPECIALLY out of this forum]. This is how we see the current state, this is what we are going to do, this is what we are NOT going to do, these are possible tentative fixes" etc.
- "People have strong opinions about these mechanical changes made to the combat. Here's where the problem lies, how we at Larian perceive the current situation, and what we will attempt to solve the matter or what we are definitely NOT going to do".
- "These specific things people are complaining about are just placeholders. Don't worry about them".
- Given that even among "causals" way more people seem to be in favor of a 6-slot party than the ones that are against it, what's the ACTUAL rationale behind the complete refuse to give the option a try for official support rather than "leaving it to modders"? A honest insight on what are the perceived challenges here could help to understand what's the obstacle to solve and what compromises can be made.

On a more generic, less "problem-solving" oriented note, examples of meaningful pointers of what's coming could be "The next update will focus on improving performances and/or introducing new content and/or changing core mechanics and/or speeding up and improving the AI and/or improving the UI in the sequent number of ways".
Also, are new races and classes coming any time soon? Are they still coming ONE at the time? IF they are coming, great, if not that's fine but it wouldn't hurt to know in advance and set expectations accordingly.

What about the level cap? Is it set in stone that it will remain at 4 as long as we will be in EA or is the 5th level and the deluge of new spells/mechanics it would introduce for testing purpose something that is being considered for future updates?

I could go on for a while, but I think I more or less made my point.
We aren't really asking to rob the developers of their working time to indulge in our constant thirst for attention, but I think there's a reasonable middle ground here that could be reached in terms of transparency.