Because their writing team was either screwed big time with the cut content and for some reason couldn't add one fetch quest before launch or in one of the 3 patches released already or they are worse than edgy 12 year old that just discovered wattpadd and wants to shock the world with sad story they invented
But the thing is, even that doesn't make sense as an explanation, because if you just want to tell a sad story you don't say "by the way there's a very obvious solution to the thing making you sad, but you just don't take it."
I can somewhat understand if it's the other option, because the solution I'm talking about would necessarily involve a decent amount of reactivity. You'd have to have reached a certain stage in Karlach's personal quest, it's locking you into attacking the forge, it has to react to your choice between the Gondians and the Ironhands, etc., plus you have to figure out if you're going to give Karlach another way to find out about this option if she wasn't in your party for that cutscene. So I get it if implementing it was too much to do at the last minute. But then you have to take out the interaction that hints at it! Same thing with
Mol
, why are you even bothering to leave that nothing quest in the game if you don't have time to finish it? I don't think I've ever seen a quest that involved less player agency than that. You literally cannot do anything to substantively resolve that situation. The most you can do is find a piece of paper. It doesn't matter if you
kill Ralph
or not, she escapes either way. So not only is it perhaps the worst quest in the history of games, but just like with the Karlach problem, it introduces an unnecessary and distracting inconsistency. In this case, the question is why this little kid can just waltz out of
selling her immortal soul to a devil
, but somehow
Hope, a grown woman who didn't even sign a contract with Ralph,
was utterly helpless.
Like how are you gonna cut content like some of the stuff they cut, but then leave in bizarre things like this?
