To be honest I think its pointless to speculate about it. There are so many reasons they probably done it and its far beyond what we see from the outside. It's definitely not something as simple as just 'Moneygrab!!!!!!!!' or 'Exposure!!!!' - for the EA also comes with negatives for a company. The reason for Larian to do it the way they did will be more complicated. Also the game is not just for 'us' that paid EA and played it.


I never expected EA to be a way to massively affect the game, but at the same time just going through some of Niara's old posts today - honestly, you don't get clearer and better feedback than that. This is the level of discussion you should have within the company and take it seriously. How the hell Larian's action economy with 'Throw' and 'Shove' and 'Jump' made it through EA is an utter mystery to me - because as Niara demonstrated its not about personal taste if you like these options its about a level of unbalancing that two level 1 characters without using equipment or abilities killed of cambions, mindflayers and named devil characters plus imps in a combat. When you let issues like that slip through EA despite having people giving you feedback for 3 years than I come to the point where I have to say you wasted the players' time and thus a huge possibility to fix your game.


By the way I don't buy the argument about 'dumbing down' - 5e is not complicated for an RPG, Larian's changes for multiclasses are such a minor thing that you actually also find in the PHB, while most of the other changes are lateral - they didn't simplify the game they just re(/un)balanced the game. Larian is doing whatever they think its the best version of what they can do with 5e. Personally I feel like they are not good at homebrewing 5e, but that is a personal opinion based on personal taste.

Last edited by biomag; 20/07/23 12:49 PM.