Ultimately I think only Larian can decide if going EA was a good decision or a mistake. For myself, I generally don't like the idea of developers using--and very often abusing--EA. Getting feedback from your fans is a wonderful thing, but (1) you don't necessarily need to go the EA route for this, and (2) Larian doesn't seem to care about any of the real and meaningful feedback from fans and instead appears only to care about superficial "statistical" feedback from EA player play-tracing. So effectively, EA is just glorified beta testing for Larian, and free beta testing at that.
But most important of all for me, if you are going to use EA, then at the very least you should have a clear plan for how your EA process is expected to work, and as such your EA should last only about 6-8 months and no more than a year. In fact, I wish Steam would enact a hard rule that games cannot be in EA beyond one year max. BG3 being in EA for 2.5+ years is simply ridiculous.
Last edited by kanisatha; 30/05/22 07:59 PM.
