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

I have seen several such jokes that day ...
Wouldnt see any hints behind that specificaly, it seemed to me like someone in Larian just didnt want to stay behind, when other companies get free atention from curently popular joke. :-/

That ghost seems more promising tho.

I wonder, is the fact that they posted on a Chinese platform significant?
A potential connection : Monk class > Buddhist monks > Buddhist monastic practices mostly found in Asia (Tibet, East Asia and South Asia) which includes China.

Or, is it the relation to Halloween that significant? Then, the connection might be :
A) Panel from Hell > Hell > Monsters and devils > Halloween.
B) Paladin > Fighting evil (typically) > Monsters and devils > Halloween.

I guess that's not helping with so many possibilities 😅

I wonder, is the fact that they posted on a Chinese platform significant?

Or, is it the relation to Halloween that significant?

You would need to actually work in a big office enviroment to get it I guess, if you can't imagine the scale of disruption of half your crew working remotely, some on shitty home hardware.

As an aside... the extreme vast majority of people I've interacted with over the past three years have all, more or less unanimously, reported that working remotely has been the biggest boon and improvement not only to their lifestyle, but also to their effectiveness, their efficiency and their productivity, as well as being a massive reduction in stress. They discovered that so much office time wasted in various meetings was, indeed, wasted and unnecessary, and that most of them found the idea of going back to the way it was before to be a genuinely horrific idea. In fact, the only people I've encountered who didn't find it an improvement were middle-management workers whose primary job was wrangling team members into status reports, productivity meetings and other organisational faff - they found their jobs harder to do while workers were working remotely, while those workers were swiftly discovering that said wranglers were largely unnecessary at the end of the day.

There is old saying in Czech: Hundert times nothing killed the donkey.

I give you an example ...
Its not my own, its from my friend who is working in gamedevelopment in CDPR ...

She send a message to colleague askind for some data ...
He answered in an hour ... bcs he was doing something and (as most people i know) didnt check his emails every few seconds.
But he forgot to add attachment to that answer email ... so she had to ask again.
The second answer took him another hour.

That are two hours wasted for something they would regulary manage to do in few seconds.

Now ... all you need to do is multiply.
This was single colleague, single problem, resolved just once ... presuming she would be so unlucky with two collagues twice per week during that homeoffice timet ...

For half year (dunno how long it was in Belgium tho) it would mean aproximately:
6(months)*4(weeks)*2(cases)*2(hours) = 96h of delay ...
So things that would regulary take her hardly more than 15-30 minutes ... is being resolved for 4 whole days.

And that is still for only one person.

Now imagine that there are dozens (in Larian cases even hunderts) of people whos work is dependent on someone else work ...
So thanks to this ... several dozens of people cant continue bcs they dont have foundation from my friend, who is waiting to someone else ... and another dozens are waiting for them and so on and so forth ... you get the idea.

Or you can ignore all this for simplicity and presume that stretching go all the same ...
So if something that would take an 1 hour lets say for simplicity ... took them 100h, rounded up, again for simplicity ...
Something that woul take them a Month would take them?

I know this is false math ...
But just to imagine the scale it can work.

Its called chain reaction.
One splitted attom is not a problem ... what happens afterwards is what makes people affraid.

I thought that companies often tend to avoid end of the year ...
Wich makes sense, most people (at least most people i know) have by that time different priorities than games.

C'mon, you have at the best 20% of the game and story, how you can tell about story quality when you've seen literally nothing?

That is a harsh thing to say. Thanks to it, I was able to play a CRPG with two friends who would have never played a CRPG otherwise. We had a very good time thanks to presentation and the streamlined game play,

I am glad to hear it. I am just curious, what do you mean by "streamlined"? That is definitely not what I would call BG3. It is one of a more granual RPGs I played in a long time - I just don't think it does much with it. I would describe both PoEs as far more steamlined.

BG3 community when Larian post anything after months of drought :

look at the fools, their brains running around in circles trying to find a clue that isn't there.

What have 4 letters, sometimes 9 letters, but never 5 letters

You know this puzzle?

Violence is never the answer ... violence is the question, and answer is yes! :P

My guesses are monks