I’m absolutely with you. My ultimate goal for starting this thread wasn’t to campaign for an immediate backtracking on Larian’s decisions or to express interest in expansions from them, since we’re obviously not going to change their minds on such a major business decision that they’ve obviously put a lot of thought into. My hope is just to continue to bring awareness to the problems still plaguing the game so that either:
a) Small problems can still be resolved in the upcoming patches they have planned if they don’t require major changes to the narrative or the world (ie. Please give us more dialogue and a functional Act 3 romance for Minthara in the future patches with Crossplay/Photomode because she desperately needs it to be on the same level of quality as the rest of the characters).
b) More major overarching issues that people have can be discussed, so that Larian knows there is an interest in more substantive changes they can make in some future definitive edition of the game. For DOS II the Definitive edition was released with the console port of the game, but for a game as successful as BG3 it would be crazy for Larian not to make some sort of “next gen” version in 3 or so years once there is a new line of consoles and more advanced pc graphics card. It’s great to look at CDPR for examples of how stuff like this is handled. Cyberpunk 2.0 and the Phantom Liberty expansion were released almost 4 years after the original game, which is a crazy long time in the world of game development. CDPR also released the huge next gen update (with a little bit of new quest content) for the Witcher 3 only last year, when the game came out in 2015.
There’s no reason we as a community shouldn’t continue to give constructive criticism or voice discontent with the developers and the game when there’s still plenty of time and plenty of reasons for them to come back in the future when their apparent burnout has worn off and they feel they have a good reason to return to Baldur’s Gate. The end of updates and post-launch support for the game is certainly a very bitter and disappointing goodbye, but it’s only goodbye for now, not forever.
