Nominations for the Game Awards have been announced. Among the 8 nominations for BG3 is “Best Community Support”. My immediate reaction was surprise: In my view, Larian’s relationship to the community could be qualified as negligent, exploitative or adversarial – hardly award-worthy.
That being said, “best” is a relative term. Maybe it’s okay for Larian to have sold an incomplete Mac version under false advertising for at least month with no explanation or apology. Maybe it’s okay that the 17’000 endings do not in fact exist, or that the game launched with missing tech while Larian touted its feature-completeness.
I don’t know… On the one hand I feel like the Early Access process put me in a sour disposition towards Larian and I may be being unnecessarily harsh on them. On the other hand I feel my distrust of Larian stems directly from their poor community support. So let them have their victory lap; let them reap awards by the armful. But do they really deserve to win this one?
