It's just the acronym and the association with micro-transactions, since people feel burned from the nickel and dime over the years. I have no issues myself with that model for like D&D adventure packs or self contained campaigns, which I'd prefer to things like subscriptions or any sort of MMO where you have to pay as you go. I'm firmly in the camp that would rather see one large package for a sensible price, all up front, than a ton of micro DLCs which is what that conjures up to me.

I fully expect a sequel or some kind of expansion. No other company could have pulled this off!

This is a minor miracle what we're witnessing. So for them not to swing for the fences here would be rough. I mean they put in 6 years already, what's 4 more at this point? lol

They have all the principles still in place, they have momentum and a lot of good will. They could probably also learn much from the experience of the EA itself, making the next one even better. You know with some new boards and more community engagement for that, like just little things every few weeks to help guide the discourse and make the most of that.

What I really would love is for them to focus on Character Creation, and something which I won't call a full DM mode but more like an advanced BG3 "DM Screen" where players can feed in more inputs there to determine what sort of experience it would be. For example they might separate Story choice/difficulty from Tactical difficulty, and provide more for stuff there like recommended XP/treasure scale. I want mostly QoL and Char Creation assets. I think that's where they should put the zots. The templet here is great! I'd love to see another corner of the Forgotten Realms done up to the nines like this.

The longer they wait to move on it, the more people will expect from such a thing, but honestly they have so much going pretty strong right now, that if they did a pre-Order for BG4 EA tomorrow they could probably rack up another couple million pretty quickly that way. I would do it again. Even if EA was minor torture sometimes, it still produced the best game I've played in years. I was skeptical at many points, but they delivered for me. Somehow they did it! Sure there are some critiques, but on the whole, they did right by the legacy as far as I'm concerned. I'd like to see em keep it going!

Last edited by Black_Elk; 09/09/23 10:38 PM.