I avoided the early release stuff right at the start. Software people created this concept called "agile development", which means the requirements always evolve, the code always changes, it is never really finished, and the customer needs to prepare for an infinite budget and an infinite schedule. That sounds like the perfect business model, no? No.
As far as BG4 goes, maybe it is time to just let the franchise end. The BG3 ending does kind of hint that there will be reprisals against the Dead Three for what they just attempted to do with the Absolute. And the Astral Prism certainly looked like it was built upon the skeletal remains of an old god, perhaps Jergal? I don't know, it's hard to keep making sequels "more epic". Just look at what Marvel had to do ... save the person, save the city, save the Earth, save the Galaxy, save the Universe, save the timeline, save the very essence of reality, ... wither do we go from there? (pun intended)
