So I watched those and...myself personally I'm of two minds. On the one hand, I don't think there's anything wrong with them in principle. The content doesn't really bother me and I do think it's good to always remember that these are games and it's okay to have fun with them and not take them too seriously. On the other hand though, I think part of the problem people have that ads like this exacerbate is that it feels as though Larian doesn't really have a lot of care for the setting, and that's what I think a lot of the day/night cycle issues stem from for people. Larian obviously cares about the game and the experience of the game, but the setting of Faerun itself? Thus far it feels very indistinct, like a lot of details that are tied together with string, rather than a deep, fleshed out, lived-in world. I've started Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and while the day and night differences can be fun, I think the starkest difference in how it treats the setting vs BG3 is that the setting just felt richer. Maybe that's just a consquence of being able to go more places? But in the first game it felt like a place where people actually lived, and it doesn't really feel the same in BG3.
I hear you, of and by themselves the Tiktoks are harmless. That was insightful of you to see the bigger picture with the IP as a whole and Larian’s relative lack of care for it; I suppose that is why the tiktoks bother me so much.
You can tell in BG1&2 that some of the devs (I assume) played D&D or at least researched it in depth. It was a love letter of sorts to the game world. BG3 feels like a loveletter Larian have written to themselves.
