Don't get too optimist about this. For the most part they are still rabidly overdefensive against any criticism toward the game.
How do you criticize "the game" when it has yet to ship? Nobody on planet Earth, to my, knowledge is currently playing the complete BG3 game. We're all playing the EA, which we knew--or should have known--would be restricted to the first chapter in the game out of three or maybe even four total chapters. That is all the content the EA will contain during its lifespan. (Lamenting that "I should have read about what I was buying first," is certainly no excuse...;)) Larian has done an EA on a number of its games and they are all the same--you get the first chapter, or so--and nothing else until the full game ships.
And really, the people whose criticism of the EA is that Larian should have used the same engine as shipped in the original BG2 is about the most ludicrous criticism imaginable, considering how long ago BG2 was. It's like complaining that BG2 was shipped using an improved BG1 engine, etc. I don't even understand that particular criticism. BG2 shipped 21 years ago--I can run it at 4k and the graphics look like crap...although 21 years ago I quite enjoyed it! Anyway...
Do I like having to wait a year or more after paying for the EA for the full game? Of course not. I definitely don't like it. Swen delayed launching the EA for some time because of how slowly the progress was moving. Frankly, I wish he had delayed the EA for another six months or so, which would have put the full game shipping within six months of the EA, maybe, which I judge to be about right and probably what Swen had in mind at the start.
I think that's at the crux of the discontent, such as it is. It is frustrating. No argument there.
But what I want to see are the patches and then I'll look at the community update describing them. Telling people what is coming at some point in the future is in no way comparable to providing those updates in the appropriate patches. It's a mistake to think that it is.
So where are the smaller patches every two weeks that would not obsolete prior saves? That was something that was communicated that has yet to come to pass. However, if that isn't feasible then I would recommend saying that it isn't feasible so we could all forget it.
I guess I'll sum up by saying that I don't necessarily agree with a lot of the criticism, but I can certainly understand it.
I'm never wrong about anything, and so if you see an error in any of my posts you will know immediately that I did not write it...;)
