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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9821268" data-attributes="member: 725">Let's talk context: BG2 did 2 million sales in five years, BG3 did 20 million sales in two years.When you want to make a game that's not a niche within a niche, like most D&D computer games, you need to use a similar target audience as other successful computer games. Like Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher, Skyrim, Mass Effect, etc. Those are all aimed at mature audiences.Most sex scenes in movies are often tasteless and don't really add anything to the story. In games it's even worse. I'm certainly not a prude, and sex is a driver in many plots, just as money is, but we don't have scenes of just people counting the money for 5-10 minutes in every movie/game...No, imho the 18+ label on those mature games is not just for the sex scenes, it's for setting a certain tone in the whole story/visuals. Just as the new Larian Divinity trailer showed sex, it wasn't about sex, but that's what most people are talking about...As for D&D and mature content/products, who remembers the 3e Book of Vile Darkness, I don't think it sold that well and WotC didn't repeat such a product for 23 years. That much says it all imho about the viability of such a product...</blockquote>