Companions take a lot of resources and there are a lot of classes and races to cover.
I dont think this is true ...
Implementing class? > Done, its playable class. Implementing model? > Done, that character allready exists. Recording voice lines? > Yes, this one will be needed ... BUT! (and this is important) The actor A, who would voice character A, would most likely cost simmilar (if not the same) amount of money as Actor B, who would voice character B.
Comeon Rag. Do you really think that all resources companions take is: class, model, and recorded voicelines, that somehow written and implemented themselves. Unless you suggest that Minsc/Jaheira won't be companions per say, but sidekicks like in PoE2 - so characters with no content past initial recruitment. That would make more "companions" more viable, but we have seen no evidence for that.
Yes, we don't know definite amount of companions but what we know:
And now confirmed, assuming that translation is correct (I am still sceptical, for a variety of reasons) 8) Minsc again - ranger? 9) Jaheira (also datamined BTW, but with no connection to being a companion) - druid?
So that's 9. Hoping they will go all the way to 12 and cover all classes would be stretching it, based on the info we DO have. In my view anything beyond that can be chucked into the same well of wishes, as day and night cicle or real time combat.
Listen the more the merries, just as I would welcome more races and classes. Just saying that with Jaheira's announcement, Helsin is unlikely due to predicted low number of companions, and the overlap between the two. It is not a fact, but I find the odds worth betting at. And my motto is: better to expect less and be positively surprised, then expect more then was announced, and be disappointed later on.
And if Larian were to add more companions to make up for ones we might loose, adding those to evil path seems more important - many of existing companions and Jaheira and Minsc are unlikely to support us joinging the Absolute, so if extra spares are crafted they should fill this path, rather then piling more into the good guys camp.
