Well, in the recent PAX panel, Swen himself went and addressed online discussions exactly like this and confirmed that they see these things, but regardless are deciding that they have no desire or intent to make any further changes to the game, and are moving on from it entirely. This is obviously a bummer for all of us who are still very unsatisfied with the state of the game, especially seeing as Patch 7 has only gave people more reasons to be disappointed as the evil endings are a really big let-down after how much they were hyped. So I just want to say two things to conclude this discussion, as stewing on our disappointment and shouting feedback into a void isn't going to accomplish anything from here on.
1) Again, as the title of the post has made clear, I'm forever going to be disappointed in Larian for calling it quits on development of the game. I obviously have massive respect for them for being able to admit that they simply don't have passion for the game anymore and would rather do something else, but it's really sad to see developers get tired of their own game as a player who is only really here as part of the DnD fanbase and not the Larian fanbase as a whole. Seeing more updates to this game or news of a released enhanced edition in a few years would excite me far more than any news about whatever Larian has planned next (although I'm sure it will be spectacular, whatever it is). I still hold on to a little hope that someday, they'll come back and revisit the game (I would gladly pay full price for an enhanced edition), but it really seems like that's never going to be the case. The age of BG3 has sadly come to an end.
2) Just because Larian is never going to make the changes people want, doesn't mean that we can never see these changes. I really hope that the modding community for this game explodes in popularity and pushes the tools at their disposal beyond what Larian could imagine them being used for. I know it's incredibly difficult, but I think there are definitely ambitious and capable modders in this community who can put their minds towards working with the games script and engine to make changes to the narrative content and add new cinematics to create an alternate version of the story. I would love to get into modding myself and I definitely plan on learning how the tools work so that I can tinker with things for my own satisfaction. One day, I hope that there will be a sort of community-made "Definitive Edition" of BG3 that represents the culmination of everybody's work and tells the full, original story that Larian had. Obviously for legal reasons, these would have to be unvoiced dialogues and cutscenes, but I'd still rather see them without any actors than have to deal with the frustration of wondering about what could have been.
I love this game and I'm so sad to see it's life cycle end in such an unsatisfactory way, but it's been awesome to know that there are others who feel the same way and want to see the game supported (by the community instead of the developers) for years to come. Love yall.
