Originally Posted by The Red Queen
Originally Posted by Ixal
Larian removing the headstart might be enough for Steam to issue refunds as they devalued the preorder.

I guess if anyone definitely doesn't want to play the game any more for some reason then they could give that a try and see if it works, though given that the free upgrade to Digital Deluxe edition for EA players (which included the 72h early access to Act 1) was announced as part of the announcement of the release date as 31 August and it's now 3 August it might be a hard case to make.

Not that I'll be trying, as there's no way I'm giving up my copy and anyway the extra goodies like the digital art book always seemed the main draw of the edition to me. I don't care about getting to start playing before anyone else, and I'd not want Larian to rush the game to me if it meant that there were more problems and risk to the release.

Larian is already rushing the game to you because they moved the release date for business reasons to beat Starfield. So you will already see a degradation of quality as they need to do the work of 2 months in 1.
And a preorder always means that you buy something unseen. And for that risk to be worthwhile the incentive should be quite good. A digital art book, an OST you can likely get from youtube anyway and a few ingame skins and items are imo not enough. Especially also with all the questionable decisions about multiclassing, respecs and hirelings, attributes and race balance (humans), their general focus of "go evil or go bust" ect. come to light which makes buying BG3 unseen a bit questionable in my opinion.