Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General 2 year EA ANNIVERSARY event? (OCTOBER 6)

I personally don't place much stock in the supposed iterative process developers get from EA and consider EA games to simply be unfinished games being dumped on me, the player. As such I will never ever play an EA game. Which then means I won't ever be providing feedback to the developer through their EA process. And I don't think very highly of the "player" feedback devs get from people playing their unfinished games. Ergo my opposition to EA. Btw, I also believe the model and process by which games are crowdfunded is also broken, and not a good way for a developer to create a game.

Sure. We have very different ideas of how a studio should develop a game, so we're going to disagree on this. I personally don't place much stock in the supposed iterative process developers get from EA and consider EA games to simply be unfinished games being dumped on me, the player. As such I will never ever play an EA game. Which then means I won't ever be providing feedback to the developer through their EA process. And I don't think very highly of the "player" feedback devs get from people playing their unfinished games. Ergo my opposition to EA. Btw, I also believe the model and process by which games are crowdfunded is also broken, and not a good way for a developer to create a game. But unfortunately on that issue, small indie developers often have no choice but to go with crowdfunding.

An unexpected event is exactly that: unexpected. And in any such situation everyone makes adjustents, not just in this situation but in all situations everywhere.

No i dont actualy ...

If this was supposed to be the way why we even god Fighter?
We should get Barbarian from the start ... there are same things to test minus Rage ... or other way around ... Larian had to invent their own skills for each totem warrior to make them more different ... wich os cool for Barbarians ... but sucks for Fighters who gets nothing.

Why we got Wizards?
Mechanically they are Sorcerers minus Metamagic ... i mean the only thing that is there to test is their spell learning ... but that is something people are complaining about since patch 1 ... and here we are two years later with no change.
So calue of THAT testing and feedback is at best questionable.

Not even mention that moders who are just sticking together bits and pieces leftover by Larian. And even so they managed a year ago to create both Monk and Paladin ... aswell as many (if not all) missing subclasses ... including some that arent even in PHB.
So call me naive but it seems to me that the only thing that is holding Larian back from releasing something is that they simply dont want to ... certainly not that some feedback wouldnt be so needed for them or that they dont have it ready ... i dont believe that.

As for benefits from Monk testing:
As you mentioned animations ...
It would certainly bring some life back ...
It would show Larian how well would Monks survive this world ...
They would finaly force Larian to make staves Versatile (that alone should be argument enough) ...
And last but certainly not least ... i for one am very interested in how would Monk work with catching and sending back arrows ... and maybe other throwable objects?

And BTW i like being Greedy dont you underestimate my greedyness! :P

i have a feeling it's 1 or 2 more patches and then release

Me too ...
All the more reason to release them rather sooner than later.

I mean ... gather 4 months of feedback will never be as good as 24 but still it is allways better than 2, isnt it?

Fair enough. Personally, I still don't think RPGs are great fit for EA but more systemic titles can work really well - being enjoyable both for playerbase and giving valuable feedback to Devs.

Personal early access experiences that have been great from my personal experience were: Invisible Inc., Prison Architect, Hades. Those games, though had clear dialogue with their playerbase, resulting in tighter and tighter game with every patch. BG3 feels more like they are drip feeding us content every couple months with occasional responses here and there.