I'd be very curious to see if they kept track of what percentage of their players use a custom character for their main character and how many use origin characters first. I can't imagine using an origin character, but they seem to be popular.
That, in itself isn't an indication, however, if there is market for a better custom experience. From what I have seen I am likely to play as custom in BG3, but in my 3 runs in D:OS2 I used origins each time. I knew ahead of time, that customs are no good, so why would I do that? All I was doing is taking content away while adding nothing of value.
Exactly. Why would anyone want to play a custom character that has been intentionally made to be a crappy game-playing experience? If you set up a choice between two options where one of them is indisputably superior, and then you find from your surveys that people "preferred" the (intentionally) superior option, that doesn't say anything at all about whether people actually liked the "preferred" option.
