Question isn't "another companion Y/N"
I know ...
I didnt even imply the question was this.
What i said was: Argument about cost of creating companion would be relevant IF the qestion would be this ... since it isnt, and we both agreed that it isnt ... argument about cost of creating companion seems irellevant to me.
Bcs, as stated abowe, upgrading Halsin to a Companion status, would be actualy a bit cheaper ... or at worse case scenario just as expensive as creating Jimmy the Sorcerer.
Therefore there is no additional cost, if they decide to upgrade Halsin.
Therefore i see no reason to bring up cost of creating companions as argument against Halsins upgrade.
I dunno what about it is "making no sense" it seems perfectly clear to me. O_o
"how many companions can there be, and how they can provide different narrative/gameplay experience"
This question seems a lot more tied to their personalities, than their race or class ...
I dont know any example from Baldur's Gate series ...
But just take Saruman and Gandalf:
- yes, they are both Wizards ...
- yes they are both Maiar(?) ...
- does that mean they are both the same and having one or another as companions in our group would not "provide different narrative/gameplay experience"? Certainly not!
I dont really know Jaheira personality, so i dont really know how different she is from Halsin.
Quite honestly i dont really think anyone know her curent personality. Yes, you may have played older games and know Jaheira from there, but remember that Larian have their own writers and 120y passed since last game ... that is lots of time to change some perspectives.
On the other hand there is one (not really related) old saying i made for my character in one DnD game:
"Kingdoms and Empires fall faster, than a Dwarf change his mind." 
Feel free to quote me on this.
And yes I would be surprised if they went for another elf druid companio before "Jimmy the Sorcerer" or other missing archetype like monk. I might be wrong, but that's my take.
I hear you ... maybe even sort-of agree ...
But i dont think those things are mutualy exclusive.
I mean even Chubblot himself (maybe im wrong, but i concider that guy to be bigest dataminer of this game) stoped creating videos around Patch 5, since Larian simply started to clean their traces too good to leave anythin interesting for him to talk about.
So i believe (or hope, feel free to read it in both ways) that chances that Jimmy the Sorcerer, Jack the Monk, and Johny the Bard ... are all already done and prepared ... just hidden for final release.
Then question for me is not "should we create Jimmy or upgrade Halsin" ... its only "should we upgrade Halsin"?
And feel free to disagree with me all the way you want ... but respond "nah, we allready have a Druid" is not sufficient ... especialy since we (and them, especialy them) know how much people want Halsin ...
And if someone actualy said it in Larian, that person should go kneel in the corner for at least 15 minutes and think about what he did!
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I'm not sure how else to interpret them.
Just PM me if you want to know ... but i believe there is not much point to talking about it here.
Im fine leave it with "we simply didnt understand each other, lets move on and never talk about it again".
Its completely up to you.
