It's important to remember that Swen has all the Metadata from millions of playthroughs that shows him what people like to do. BG3 will be affected more by that metadata than us crazy people who post on the forums.
It's important to remember that having data is worthless unless you know how to use it, and Larian has demonstrated that they do not.
Really? How so?
If you had metadata showing that people love to be shoving peeps around would you remove shove?
How have they demonstrated they don't know how to use data?
Lets use the first case they told us about.
There metadata was showing them that no one was using the spell Bless and they assumed that was because people find buffing spells boring instead of looking deeper as why no one was using Bless.
1. The easy to get advantage on attack rolls, making Bless less attractive. 2. They lowered AC on many mobs because some people complained about missing, making Bless less attractive 3. The numerous surface effects made keeping concentration harder, making Bless less attractive.
The are looking at the data and just using it to support what they want to see, not to accurately see where they are messing up.
