TDLR: People thought Larian is not like the other studios and people gave Larian a lot of credit in advance - such a foolish thing to do? Do you really think we shouldn't have supported Larian because they didn't make an official statement: "We are going to finish this game and fix the bugs"?
Well except having the opinion that the game is "unfinished" in any way is the minority opinion. Most people seeing Larian move on and not do any DLC is either excused by adding to their mythos of "not like other game developers" or blame WOTC instead.
Slightly curious as to your definition of unfinished is? Mine would be, minimally, a fixed Minthara for those that include her, because I hear she's still broken in P7. Maximum would be fixing Act 3's structure by readding the upper city (assuming that exists, idk at this point); Bonus points if they make inventory management easier.
Originally Posted by Rote90
Does Larian really want to get the reaction like Cyberpunk got at first when they release an unfinished game the next time?
I mean, it's happened 4 times in a row now and no one seems to care much... (Except for Dragon Commander, I guess) It helps that they utilize EA to polish up their first act or two, which most people probably spend most time with too. Hopefully, they don't do use EA again, although I fully expect them to.
Originally Posted by Wormerine
But I think that if a game with 96 metacritic and 8.8 user score and crap ton of awards is left in a "bad state" after a year of post launch support and improvements, than something very questionable has happened with how the game was appraised
Tbh, I'm in the "something very questionable" camp for this; If it was only Act 1, then sure, I can understand it, but the complete product just doesn't reach those heights.
It's kinda the same when you look at the other DOS games, despite rough last Acts (How rough on release, idk exactly), and they're in the high 80-90s. But I guess I understand that too, I use to think DOS2 was the best RPG around, but after finishing it (and replaying Act 1 -> 2 probably too many times), that opinion descended quite quickly to the point that I just cannot touch it ever again.
