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I honestly considered signing up for Stadia just to see if it was any better. I certainly purchased BG1 enough times, probably like half a dozen, whether from scratched or lost discs or the beamdog redux, so I'm not a stranger to recklessly blowing gold on Baldur's Gate games lol. I was also interested in how this game might play with a UI geared for a controller, but then I read that the game doesn't fully support controller on Stadia either so that lost my interest. I also have a sort of fraught attitude towards Google too, as I've worked for them on occasion, and they now rule the place where I grew up like a medieval fiefdom or something on the price out. I've already given Valve my loot, and so I expect Larian to make this thing hum on Steam. Ideally if they're going to make a game like this I'd just as soon plug in an X box controller and use thumbsticks. It's definitely kind of a betrayal of where I began in this thread though, because even though I can acquiesce to that direction for the game, I still find it pretty disappointing. I really wanted a BG3 more in the spirit of BG1, right down to the command and control, but somehow I don't think I'll be getting that here. Alas.

Also just as a passing aside, there are definitely a lot of personalities on these boards. Some regulars lean one way or another and have different hot buttons I've found. Over time you just sort of get used to the people kicking about and their various perspectives on the big issues du jour. I mean you get a sense of what their interests are, where they're coming at it from, and what sort of archetypal player group they probably represent. I think most opinions here are pretty valid. While it may appear that some voices monopolize the conversation, it's really just that they are still contributing pretty actively on a recurring basis, so I try to credit the energy required for just sticking around this long hehe. People do stop through make a post and dip, maybe never get heard from again, but when I see the same voices return to keep it going week in and week out that's kind of a positive for continuity in the conversation in a way. Sometimes they have better days, sometimes off ones. It's hard to even remember half the feedback or who it was given by anymore, but I take note when somebody's launched a big feedback thread or delved into an interesting conversation, or chained around a bunch of the threads for a few weeks.

Whenever I sense a breakdown in concord, I tend to blame Larian for not really curating their own boards, or taking on the EA experience and participation a bit more actively via engagement. Who Larian is and what plans they have in the offing, what they think about the game's development so far and what feedback they're after, it's all like a big perpetual mystery here. It has a way of setting up weird arguments by proxy either in their defense or contra, and really sort of galvanizing the forums denizens against themselves pointlessly. I find it frustrating, cause it's like they've just absconded and left us to mull about without much direction. When things get dicey here, I just try to recall that everyone who has made the effort to sign up and post here probably cares somewhere deep down in their heart, because these boards are definitely pretty unwieldy hehe.