300 people can do more then 1 act in 1 month. You can make all of act 1, 2 in 1 month if work flow is done correctly. I made a 50 map pathfinder campaign [urgir, Mandev, custom city 4x size of bg3, level 16, the entirety of the land of mammoths, in less then 2 weeks myself using solasta game engine DM maker. People think it's hard... it's not. Only reason there is so much missing content is because the devs where lazy to complete it.
Lazy to complete it? Are you okay, lad? You've said more than enough to ensure me that you've no idea what you're talking about.
They were forced to cut content, at least because they were runing out of time, not because they are lazy, jeez...I assure you, Larian couldn't afford lazines during BG3 development, too much at stake, BG3 is like all or nothing for their future.
They decide their timetable, Swen mentioned as much recently. Larian could of delayed the game a couple of months and released it with Act 2 + 3 more polished than what they currently are, the whole " they ran out of time " excuse only applies to companies like Activision Blizzard/EA and other triple A studios who have the corporate overlords wanting that sweet sweet money regardless of the games quality or readiness to be released, Larian is an independent studio a 2 month delay would not of killed the company and some of the cut stuff could of seen the light of day.
So, you think, that they could've easily continue development of this game for like half or even year but simply decided to cut off so much important content, broke some promises, leave behind not a small amount of effort, just to release it a bit earlier and be done with it? I doubt it.
Some ppl say that they released it earlier because of Starfield. Who knows. We don't know everything about Larian agreements with WotC etc, nothing about their finances, problems to make such conclusions.
What I can tell for sure, is that Swen care about quality of his games, especially BG, he and his team are passionate, you can see it easily, it's in their interest to release a game in a better state possible, if they decided to cut content and release BG earlier, with unpolished Act 3, then there is a serious reason to do so, don't you think?
