Originally Posted by BiasWINS
RIGHT how DARE this 'evil company' put in completely _OPTIONAL_ features that serve to make the game accessible to a wider audience. SHAME ON THEM!........ (Seeing the threads here, i kind of understand why Larian Opt to not participate themselves it also reminds me why there's like 1 or 2 people at most from the group i used to Pen / Paper with as a teenager that i still have any sort of contact with today as an adult.)

No one said "evil".
You can spare me the clownish hot takes.

It's of questionable competence as game designers at best, though.


Originally Posted by Choosen of KEK
Nobody forces you to use any of those features.
It literally doesn't matter if they are "forcing" me or anyone else to do anything.
Aside for the fact that if I'm going to join a multiplayer game I will potentially have to deal with this nonsense regardless of liking it or not, there's a problem at the source.

That's not how system design works. A game is defined by the interaction of its rules and subsystems. Messing them up randomly is not just going to be a blemish in isolation. It has a cascade effect in the way the game balances and plays out.
A game is defined by its limitations. People who think "you should always be free to do whatever you feel like" apparently struggle to metabolize the concept, though.

"Our new rule in this chess sim is that every chess piece on the board can act like the Queen when you really feel like it" is a disaster of a systemic change even if someone personally doesn't plan to take advantage of it.
Especially since that person in the will interact with other players in that ecosystem.

@Silverstar: not sure why I should care about what you are going to do with haircuts, but thanks for coming out.


Party control in Baldur's Gate 3 is a complete mess that begs to be addressed. SAY NO TO THE TOILET CHAIN