I think the farthest I would delve into being angry at Larian is that I must admit I’m now scared about their next game. If they really are leaving BG3 as a game that is phenomenal, but nevertheless a bit disappointing because it could have been even more phenomenal, I worry about them doing the same thing in the future. Would they experience the same burnout on their next game and move on from it before fully cleaning up everything that needs to be addressed? I would certainly hope not because of the fact that Larian went back to make definitive/enhanced editions of DOS I and DOS II.
Really digging into the situation really makes me believe that despite comments from Swen attempting to smooth things over, something went VERY wrong behind the scenes with the collaboration between Larian and Wotc. There’s a huge amount of whiplash that comes from Larian suddenly going from “we don’t know if we have enough steam to make a new story right now, but we are excited to pump out more patches to improve the experience of the game” to “we’ve relinquished the IP and there’s no new content coming that we haven’t already begun working on”. Ultimately, the saddest thing is that because DnD is an IP Larian doesn’t control, they don’t have any decision in making some sort of Definitive edition because the game isn’t theirs anymore. As is, the stories as they are will fester in some vault for a while at Hasbro until somebody decides that they can be brought back to earn a profit.
