As for "Early Access", it's one of those things that you need to consider before buying into. EA isn't just "Play the game early" but rather "Play the game mid-development" meaning that you should expect things to change over time and for the final release to be somewhat different.
I personally avoid EA titles because it's not for me. I don't like playing half finished products, nor do I like spending money to be a beta tester (I'll beta test for free, to help find bugs and give feedback on stuff, but paying money to do that? Nah fam).
The most frustrating thing is when a game gets changed (not even changed, but specifically ruined) six months after release.
I can understand that EA is a game in the middle of development, and by playing EA you just want to make some small contribution and help the developers, yes, it's voluntary beta testing. But the official release is the finished game. It can have bugs that will be fixed later, they can introduce additional content, improve something... Improve, not ruin the story by turning a familiar and beloved game world into outright crap. "Changes" that insult players, common sense, and basic concepts of scenario logic - this speaks volumes, including the lack of any quality control by management. Swen said he wanted to make games that he himself would enjoy playing, when I read this I really wanted to offer him to play in my shoes after patch 6 and ask him how he liked it, did he like it a lot? Unless of course he is referring to an audience of only his own gender and making the choices he himself would make.
I don't think I'll ever buy any Larian games at all again, whether they're completed or not, especially when I found out Stephen Rooney left Larian.
I'm waiting for Avowed from Obsidian, especially after their promise that there will be no morality in their game. And there won't be romances either. I never thought I'd be happy that there would be no romances in the game, I thought they were an important part of the story, giving realism to what was going on and making the main character a living and feeling person. But after Larian perversions, when they try to shove bear/Illithidian or whatever fuck at every corner, and when I just ignore it and treat my favorite character sincerely, then it turns out that "I like to degrade myself" and get a concrete spit in the face, obviously for too serious and realistic approach to this cheap brothel, I'll be directly happy to buy a game where exactly and guaranteed there won't be THIS.
