Hey Larian,

I'm sure lot of people are wondering what you guys been working on lately.

please give us a quick heads up. Any ETA on next update? What can we expect?


Thanks

Eh, since we saw no patch/updates yesterday, at this point we won't hear from them before Monday, at best.

On the one hand we have a very long time so we should be patient, but on the other it does feel like complete radio silence.

I got I flood of replies to my emailed bug reports so I guessing they are just now catching up. But yeah, eager to try this patch some people seem to have gotten their hands on.

I guess I'm just enough of an introvert and tend to self-isolate. Ten days of no communication, I prefer that in general. I might start to wonder if I hear nothing by Christmas. We already had three quick hotfixes. It's not like they can churn out 10h+ of playable content each week.

So like I recent;y stumbled across some youtube video about some overly ambitious crowd funded MMO project that ended up being cancelled after the Devs raised over $7 million from backers.

It was like a mega scam and by the time they released a playable pre alpha demo it was nothing even near to what the pre rendered advertisement stuff showed.

And also 2 weeks before shutting it down, they sold a load of fake in game land for up to $1300+ .

I feel like that Jinxed my entire perspective of pre ordering, but here at least we have a solid playable demo and previous great RPGs from the same developers.

Or in a few days time, Larian will post that this game is now cancelled and run with the money ...

I haven't communicated with non service people in over 2 years since getting my own house. There is no need for other people.

With how quickly they churned out some pretty effective hotfixes, I've got a lot of confidence in them.

It's possible that the launch was bigger than they were expecting, and are taking time to come up with a gameplan for their PR. I could also see them taking a short break for morale after they got the game into a relatively stable state. They have probably been working on BG3 nonstop for a while now and it's important to stop and appreciate your victories.

With all that said, hopefully we will start getting some regular feedback from a community manager soon.

Usually when they're quiet for a while, they're hard at work. They'll post fresh info when it's ready, don't worry. This is Larian, we can trust them.

With early access outselling their wildest expectations, they're probably raising the budget and figuring out what they can do with the extra money. It's a different roadmap than what they had in mind before, so it takes a little longer.

You can track private patch history for BGIII here. Last internal patch was 3 hours ago. There is also a "patch2" slotted in since a few days ago.

If you're already concerned about small lapses in communication now, I'm not sure what you're going to do with yourself over the course of about a year of early access development.

Thanks for sharing this site, some great info there.

Just to clarify what I'm looking at, are these patches all live, or are they just prepared so they can load them in when they finished?

Until you see them release on Steam, those are just internal builds, that MAY or may not go live according to how much Larian is happy about them.

I received responses to bug reports (sent via the launcher link), so there is that.

I do not mind x weeks of silence. There is a whole year of tons of work to be done. It is fine if they make monthly communications for example.

Nb : your title should read quiet not quite (you can correct it).

Ahh gotcha. Thanks that's good to know.

You are spoiled ...
In one other studio (wont name it, sorry) we didnt get any relevant information for more than half year ... then we were told that storywriter was fired, no reason ... and another 3 months of silence so far.

This is nothing.

Most studios don’t give weekly updates about their development progress, so going 10 days without hearing anything is hardly unusual.

There isn't a snowball's chance in hell of Larian crapping on its customers - zero.

There's a lot of work to do, and a lot of feedback to take into consideration too, I'm not surprised.

They'll communicate when they have something to communicate I'm guessing, they've got this

Yeah, that, pretty much. There's a lot and it will take an indeterminate amount of time to sift through it to the point where useful conclusions can be reached; important bugfixes will be pushed out periodically as may the odd teaser, but anything more concrete will take longer. I don't have insider knowledge so I can't even hazard a guess, just "it'll take time". Plus they won't (or shouldn't!) be working weekends, nights etc, nobody can do perpetual crunch-time...

I would honestly feel more worried if they kept pumping out hotfixes every few days. That would make them seem sloppy.
Quality over quantity, and all that. I'm confident that whatever update they're working on is going to be worth the wait.

Start a legal injunction for refunds.

Refunding a game you've already played for dozens of hours? This EA may be a somewhat frustrating beta but admit it, most of us had a blast.

I'm quite sure he was kidding about the other post.