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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9729104" data-attributes="member: 18">Oh yeah I remember it verrrrry well.I didn't buy BG3 in EA because I was bitter about how... er... bitter-flavoured DOS2 was, but my brother bought it for me, and I what was I going to do, be an ungrateful churl and not play it?And like a couple of hours later I was on the Larian forums (or subreddit, I forget) reading and adding to threads going to "DIAL THIS SHIZZ BACK MAAAAAN" and "This is the Forgotten Realms, not Warhammer 40K".The devs did take it in well, and did slowly and steadily change. But I feel like Swen stayed mad about it, because Larian did this cool pre-launch thing for BG3 which featured tons and tons of very candid video interviews with Swen and others, just like hanging out at the basement pub thing where they did their announcements, and Swen very memorably and separately said:A) D&D's system kind of sucks, now DOS2, that was a game with a good system (!!!)andB) Forgotten Realms is meh, now Rivellon, that's a good setting (!!!)Re: link - it's somewhere in a long video, if I do find it easily, I will add it, otherwise I'll see it when I see.Maybe he had a few beers or wines in him, and maybe it pre-release jitters/self-doubt, but I feel like he was just still mad that we'd had to push back on their initial vision for BG3. This was like, the day before or a few days before release!That said, he's cool and he's smart and I imagine over a billion dollars in revenue probably y'know, maybe makes you re-think some preconceived ideas about what directions audiences like! Right?I mean, even before EA, they'd already dumped Durge as the default PC, and they later did say originally Durge was going to be the only custom-class/race option, but even the semi-internal pre-EA testing they did caused them to ditch that and go to Tav. So they can make these kind of smart decisions, and the crazy money they've made has to help there, surely?Put it far better than I could! I would have said similar but with like 2500 words and a lot of repetition!Yes which I am not here to be mean about, but I do find a little odd in an intelligent person in their 50s.God bless you dammit lol <3</blockquote>

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