And you are contradicting yourself again ... If Larian's goal is to "hook the most amount of players" ... then their goal should logicaly be to "please the most amount of players" ... therefore, give those players what they want.
By excluding one option, they only asure that one group will be angry. That dont bring any benefit.
The people who even know what asi's are are probably a small minority of their targeted consumer base. The people who care enough about this to want the old style a fraction of that fraction.
This isnt a simple do it and make everyone happy thing. There's probably an Email chain out there talking about the opportunity costs of all this and of what will appeal to the most.
In all likelihood they'd probably loose sales by adding a toggle and thus adding another decision/clutter to the character creation ui.
Larin told us most players ran a default basic looking human fighter tav. Anything that slows down these players headlong rush into vanilla tavdom is going to have a negative impact on engagement.
Yall deserve to be happy, you do, but there's a good chance some data analyst the math and realized adding a toggle will make less people happy.
Ehm, Im pretty sure the number of consumers who have played D&D will be a huge one. Those are your baseline customers from the getgo.
Anyway, if most players rush through the character creator to play a human fighter, then the default system from the PHB for Racial ability bonuses is the easiest one. No allocating, its already buildt in. Correct me if Im wrong, but with the current system you have to allocate the +2/+1 yourself no? Or is it automatically allocated to the main ability score(s) for your class?
"They say he who smelt it dealt it." Sooo technically... this burnt corpse is your fault officer."
