The point is how long people can or will wait?
However long they have to ...
Im not sure about other stores, but Steam refund only until you have less than 20hours played, and i bet that most people managed to play as much in first week from release. We were specificly told that we will be able to only play limited EA ... and if we cant work with that, we should wait for full release.
If anyone "cant wait any longer" (whatever that means) he should and will simply stand with "waiting for full release" group ... i cant find any other consequence.
Lets look at this a bit more realisticaly, what would they do if they "cant wait any longer"? Simply go play something else, until something new and interesting will be added here.
So what exactly change if they "cant wait any longer" ? Larian will have a thiner amount of feedback data, that would be unfortunate to be sure ... but also im quite certain that they allready recedive much less data for patch 3, than from release ... that is just part of the proces, and even amount of data is valuable in some way, it can help them understand what additions are poplar for gamers in global scale, wich is something this forum can never provide.
So those are reasons why i cant agree with OP ...
Yes, it would be nice to get another level to see all those sweet power-ups and feel like total badass ... yes, it would be awesome to get to some new places, meet new people, work new quests, and screw new groups of incopetent lowlives ...
But i just cant see it as good idea, to expect Larian to move development of EA to next phase, since this one still have so much work to do. :-/
You may not like it, but in mine opinion ... when you have Early Acess, you should be working by schedule, and that schedule should look like this:
- First solve major problems you curently have (those are optimalisation problems, crashes, gamebreaking bugs, etc.) ...
- Then solve minor problems, that still anoys most of people (those are conversation options that are missing, or need reworking, allowing alternative using of some spells or items in certain situations, etc.) ...
- Then while checking if those solutions dont cause another problems (like spellcasting did -_- i still dont understand why cant we get both systems), add another content to what you allready have and its working (those are classes, races, spells, specialisations, companions, etc.) ...
- And when this whole will be done, properly tested and concidered as at least acceptable, then is first time you should start thinking about expanding your content (and those are new areas, incerasing level caps, quests, etc.) not a second sooner. :-/