A little bit of personal context : I bought the game in october 2020 in EA, now have 1450+ hours of playtime, 4 completely fginished PT"s and numerous unfinished ones.

I also was disappointed after the announcement that there would be no DLC or definitive edition at all. There are so many wonderful possibilities for DLC's. But I turned that page now. We will only be able to judge if this was a sad point in gaming history after Larian's next game comes out. Hopefully we can say then that it was a good decision to not linger on BG3 and start immediately with the creation of a new and even better game. But , I guess this will only be around 3 years or so from now at the earliest.

My last, 4th, PT that I recently finished was the first one where I added a fair amount of mods. The party limit override, the hireling creation mod, so I could now try out all the different classes I hadn't done yet in one big party, and also see more banter between the different NPC's on the way. Also some fun NSFW outfit mods to generate a more Conan-pulp/Frank Frazetta style phantasy art visuals.
So I think the next patch, with official modding support might still give some nice expansions to redo that so-manieth playthrough including some new and exciting stuff.

As to speculation why Larian made this decision, it seems obvious that there was some kind of malaise or frustration within the development/test and general personnel . We could wonder what part Wizards of the Coast played in this. Swen Vyncke himself said that when the game was out, there was almost no one left from the original WoTC team with whom they had set up the game .

So maybe it is for the best, but we'll only know that in a couple of years, I guess.

Last edited by ldo58; 04/07/24 07:18 PM.