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What does this mean? Gatekeeping - in this sense?

There is a literal 'story mode' in the game that will make it easy enough so that if your character is built horribly you will still be able to beat the game. I don't see anyone complaining about it. If you have no desire to deal with the systems put in place in the game, then you should play that difficulty. If you are looking for something more challenging, then you should play the other difficulties.

I can't really understand what you are trying to say here or which of the points I made you are trying to answer.
"If you don't like it, self-restrict yourself and don't use it? As in you, a sentient being, choose.

Can you not call me that? This is impolite.

You being fine with those changes and liking them for what they are has nothing to do with them being poor design choice. Also, don't play the victim please, no one is taking the choice from you, you were instead given all the choice imaginable and more. Good for you, but bad for the game, because those new systems are fundamentally flawed:

- Multiclassing is dominant over the 'pure' classes. Both are ways people like to play. No balance between approaches which was present before.
- Scaling of spell slots makes proper high leveling in some of the classes useless, that means a game feature is useless which is bad design.
- Removal of racial ASIs with no proper substitution for half-races destroys the racial balance. Ones favorite race now pure trash -> bad system, bad design.
- Respecing your companions to be different classes favors gameplay and hurts the story, which is also bad design between two subsystems in the game.
- Same for respecing yourself.

So never use Jaheira as she will benefit from the multiclassed caster change? And also never use all other companions that have the changed multiclassing? Ditto for all other multiclasses companions or companions with changed ASI?
"Just don't use it" doesn't work when the game actively uses it for and against you.

To spend a lot of money on a game, you have to make a game people will want to play. Not the 0.2% of people who play DnD. The 2 billion people who play video games. What about this is hard to understand?

Then you should have waited for release like you were repeatedly warned through the Early Access purchase process.

More than anything?
The direct correlation between the features announced and this alleged explosion in popularity for the game.

I don’t care for features I can simply not use like respect. I do find the creatively weak, but I also think it is necessary considering how underwhelming companions selection is.

News about multiclassing are worrying. If brought too close to singleclass, than playing a singleclass character stops being an option.

I don’t have enough 5e understanding to comment on class requirements.

Either way, those are things modders should be able to address.

Sure if the game is balanced around items like that. But unlike those items respec or buffing multiclasses can be made with balance in mind. As i wrote previously if people want to abuse respec they will or they will just get trainers(those still a thing?) and cheat.

He means that I am some sort of internet warrior that defends my own idea of fun and opinion on how the game should be played, while denying any changes that can make him to have fun. What I actually do is criticize the systems for their flaws and thats it. But we are not on the same page thats why we can't settle on anything.

Wow this is dumb. I'm not even a DnD fan, but I took time to read the rules to plan out a build before release, and now I just feel stupid. I hope they at least use the DnD rules in tactician difficulty.

Tuco's post is honestly borderline troll. It's not about discussion on a forum its a statement that they are right, everyone who disagrees is stupid, and there is no possibility that anyone else might have any defensible point that applies to people that are not Tuco. No-one else's needs, wants or opinions matter. At this point even engaging is manifestly pointless.

It's just the usual old buzzwords and poorly disguised shaming tactics. If you have ANY standard whatsoever about game design, if you care about getting a gaming experience with any resemblance of depth or balance, then you are clearly a basement dweller, an irrational purist not open-minded enough and a gatekeeper.

The only trollish thing here is you throwing a tantrum fit and calling me names, simply because I didn't instantly buy your useless platitudes about how I should just pretend a problem doesn't exist.

Also, the comparison between a mechanical rule that I "could just choose to pretend doesn't even exist" and the narrative choice of "killing druids or not" was borderline embarrassing, anyway.

Yes, this is EXACTLY how I feel! I'm not a DnD fan. I purposely studied DnD for this game so I can play it well. I read the PHB and spend hours every day thinking what kind of interesting builds I can make and what are the restrictions. Now it's just like, "well there are no restrictions, just do what you want and enjoy easy gameplay". This is just my typical luck I guess, I never get what I hope for.

Eh? Don't use multi-classing. The alleged changes to multi-classing for your character and the ability to multi-class a companion are two separate issues. Either way they are still choices. You may not like the consequences of either choice but they are still choices. There will be players who are happy with both choices.

You have apparently missed the last decade of trends in game popularity. Am I sad that things have gone in the direction they have? Yes. Do I think the games produced are less engaging as a result? Also yes. Do the games make the developers more money. 100%.

I'm not seeing actual data backing the claim, incidentally.

Production value is what will make the game a big seller. Not how much stupid "optional" mechanics the game will include. Stuff that the OVERWHELMING majority of the "casual buyers" won't even be aware exists until 20-30 hours into their playthrough IF the devs are lucky and the players will remain engaged enough.

What you call flaws are things which allow players to make choice you don't agree with. That is why you are accused of gatekeeping.


Why? Just because you said so? Who are you to tell anyone how they should play their game?

Is Baldurs Gate climbing steam sales chart up to the top-2 positiom after they showed the bear stuff a good enough data?

Oh believe me, I learned my lesson. But calling their game Baldur's Gate brings a certain set of expectations, so have some empathy and allow me to feel cheated.