Originally Posted by Alexandrite
I don't understand why for the D:OS games people love playing the Origin characters there, and how the story feels richer playing one of them, but they hate the idea here in BG3. How is it any different? And why resist the idea so much in BG3 if it already worked well in D:OS?

The logic displayed in this post right here is why everyone questions how Larian is making use of their metrics.

Maybe the exact reason why people are so opposed to it here is precisely because people have already had a first hand experience in seeing how it negatively affected DOS2’s narrative and characters.

Here’s a hint. Go around the DOS2 communities looking for people telling new players to play as an origin character instead of a custom. Pay attention to their reasoning. 9 times out of 10, the exact reasoning is an observation that customs are heavily neutered compared to the origins and that you’re getting a suboptimal experience otherwise. Re-read your first sentence. Those statements about how the experience is richer as an origin were not meant to be praise for the system.

Just because a bunch of people used the system doesn’t mean the legitimately liked it.

Last edited by Saito Hikari; 19/08/21 11:25 AM.