Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Larian's communication : deleting information and editing what was said in the past ...

Well, just for context, in order to relativise things, you might remember that Larian also stealthily removed information from a Patch announcement. Namely, in the original text posted here, for Patch 8, there was some text about Spiritual Weapon. Which Larian stealthily deleted after a some people started asking about it.

Now, this is certainly not the same level of expertise and professionalism as 1984's Ministry Of Truth, since, in the Spiritual Weapon case, people can still see today what was originally written. It still rubs me the wrong way. I mean, a botched attempt at deleting information and editing what one said in the past is still an attempt at deleting information and editing what one said in the past.

In the case of the removal of the party lock, I think I saw it pop once or twice in some Reddit posts. I didn't particularly relay it here, as I wasn't sure how many people cared, aside from me. I'm kind of glad to see I'm not the only one.


Of course, one may think that, if Larian has definitively decided to ditch their original plan to force us to commit to a party after Act 1 ("just like in real life" ... for those to whom this speaks), this could have been news-worthy. A low-hanging cycle of goodwill and "see, Larian actually listens to us" was there to be picked.

I'm not overly fond of the idea, but I feel that this is still a better move than shady edits that don't really score points in the transparency department, and don't quite contribute to making me believe that maintaining a healthy relationship with the community is something Larian is truely interested in and strongly commited to.


But ... oh well. We all know that communication is not Larian's strong suit.