Originally Posted by Niara
Many folk are not okay with that, and wish to voice that they are not; that they do not wish for that to be the case. That is the feedback they are offering. I would personally appreciate it if you'd refrain from attacking anyone who says as much, please.

I also want to add to this, I think certain things are far too set in stone for any feedback to result in any meaningful change, the Origin system being at the very foremost.

But this type of constant discussion will at least serve as a case study for future projects and developers to consider when it turns out that what we foresaw in terms of the long term effects on various aspects of the game ends up being completely accurate, and we had been arguing in circles about this for 2+ years prior to the game's release.

You know, like what the people who argued about the armor system in DOS2 EA tried to warn everyone about.

On the subject of DOS2 EA, checking the oldest posts in the DOS2 general section is a pretty eye opening experience. For instance, you had this thread where people were arguing about the single player VS multiplayer experience in DOS2 EA, and it later segues into the subject of the party members all being sourcerers with no one that's relatively more 'normal', which is basically a mirror argument about the party members in BG3. (And apparently some form of the infamous 'your only party members are the ones that escape the Fort with you/everyone not in your party at that moment dies or meets an uncertain fate' existed during the earliest phases of the EA too.)

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=569368&page=1

This thread tells me that the earlier phases of DOS2 EA actually didn't really have custom characters, we would just edit the origin characters to some extent. Maybe the people asking for full custom characters should have never expected an experience equal that of the origins, really. That's not to say that we should expect the same to be true for BG3. If anything, one would think people have higher standards this time around.

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=584584#Post584584

A thread raising the alarm about murderhoboing everyone in DOS2. Granted, DOS2 is very possible to clear without it (I've never had to do it during any of my playthroughs), but there's no denying that doing it gives you an edge in that game. There's no need to do it in BG3 at the moment though, especially because power spikes in DnD are concentrated around specific levels (especially the coveted level 5) rather than every level being an equal boost in power.

https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=582255#Post582255

Last edited by Saito Hikari; 23/11/21 08:56 AM.