Originally Posted by Kendaric
Originally Posted by Elessaria666
My take on this is not that the request is unreasonable per-se; but that the game Larian makes is up to Larian. The game people want to make it into is up to modders. Telling a game studio that the game they are making is DnD and not their previous successful IP makes zero sense to me. It's like going into someone's Twitch stream and complaining you don't like the games they play...

You'd have a point if the game wouldn't originally have been advertised as a "game set in the Forgotten Realms using the D&D 5E ruleset". A lot of people, myself included, bought the EA specifically for that reason.
Yes, I'm well aware that deviation from the RAW are necessary to adapt them to the new medium and I even agree with some of the changes. But a lot of changes were simply unnecessary or even in many cases bad.

Not to mention that the sneaky way of changing racial ASI work was most definitely not well done after 3 years.
You'd have a point if the game didn't repeatedly warn you "this is not the final version of the game", "do not buy the EA if you are not comfortable with it changing significantly before release" etc etc prior to purchase. I understand people feeling frustration at the deviation from the 5e ruleset, but I don't think it's reasonable to blame Larian when they were pretty up-front about what you were buying into. Is BG3 set in the Forgotten Realms? Yes. Does it use the D&D 5e ruleset? Yes.

Regarding the ASI changes specifically; it is entirely possible that change came from WotC in the last 6 months to bring in line with their plans for D&D going forward and is nothing to do with Larian. The insinuations that this was somehow kept secret and slipped in under the radar at the last moment to avoid controversy doesn't pass the smell test for me. It was never not going to be controversial to a portion of the community, whether they announced it last February with Patch 9 or the day of release...