Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on ""Baldur's Gate 3 Devs are Scumbags"" video.

look, I enjoy the game but it's extremely disingenuous to compare "cut content" in most RPGs, like the Fallout series for example, to cut content the way Larian does it. the content you're referring to isn't really "cut content," it's just unfinished. the proof is in the fact that Larian has and will finish this content later on. cut content is just that, it is content that was removed by executive decision because it would bloat the game too much or cost too much in either time or money. it doesn't have plans for release. the difference is that when content is cut earlier in development, the devs can account for this and make the game's narratives work. everyone can tell that BG3 is unfinished because the unused content has been data mined and plot threads are simply left hanging. there's also the fact that they allegedly stated the unfinished content would be in the game just weeks before release. Larian has to get better PR managers, but I don't think they will because of how much attention "lol bear sex" drummed up.
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@bananarama1425 personally, I'm happy to play the game and I've already gotten my money's worth out of it, but this is a problem that could have been avoided if they simply stated "sorry guys the upper city and some of the character endings aren't going to be in for launch" instead of just hoping nobody figured it out in time for them to get blockbuster sales. and I hate to see the cope from people who want to seemingly deny the truth. this is about business, don't hang your pride on a video game developer's reputation. sadly, it isn't really a problem in their eyes because it paid off; the game is just so long and dense that it took like a week for anyone to figure this stuff out and now they've reached like 6 million sales which is an absurd number for a hardcore CRPG. this kinda reminds me of Darktide. Ironically the developers of that game were honest and stated that crafting wasn't going to be in for launch, among other features, but the game had so many critical bugs and lacked so much content on launch that it was still roasted... not to mention the MTX store. this game has the opposite problem, it has so much content that the missing content isn't missed.
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@Rishi-nc1mn the problem with giving devs time after release to fix their game, is that the majority of sales for a game happen within the first few weeks. buying an unfinished game that was reported to be finished just weeks before launch and then waiting in the hopes that it will be finished because it was not, is not a reasonable request to ask of the consumer. if you wanted to play the finished version of the game, the only move that makes sense is to either not buy the game or refund it within 2 hours of purchase. those are not good options from the developer/publisher's perspective. conveniently, act 1 is very polished so most people aren't going to refund after 2 hours, and as I said, they made no mention that act 3 was unfinished before release. it is an underhanded move, just not as underhanded as selling a game at $70 that still has MTX in it. and frankly, I have a hard time empathizing with the people who say "they needed to release it soon" because they achieved record-breaking Early Access sales. we need to keep reminding devs and publishers that they need enough time in development to finish their games, or they need to scale back their demanding production requirements, otherwise gaming as a whole will continue to suffer from battered wife syndrome. where someone who is only moderately "less bad" than big-name publishers will be celebrated for "revolutionizing" the industry, even if they only made a game in a way that was typical of 10 years ago. one step forward, two steps back
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@AsaelTheBeast They're referring to the fact that endings for character arcs that are clearly supposed to be there were clearly cut, based on data mining. The game kinda shits the bed in Act 3 apparently. The entire upper city is missing. Sadly this is kind of a smart strategy -- most people who buy games never finish them and so they'll never know.
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@SpecShadow there's cutting content in development, and then there's cutting content literally weeks away from release and replacing it with absolutely nothing. sadly, Larian seems to have opted for the latter. I'm well aware that even masterpiece RPGs like Fallout always have cut content, but the difference is they splice the storylines together so that they make sense instead of just... leaving them unfinished.
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@time2play961 he was likely banned for something else, don't be ridiculous
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@SchwartzSchnee It literally isn't finished. DOS2 wasn't finished and they finished it with DE. Same thing is happening to this game now. The unused dialogue lines have been data mined. The promises of the upper city being in the game have been broken, merely weeks ago. It's very clear they did not plan adequately for this release, and that Swen pushing the release forward so it did not clash with Starfield did not help.
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@Daktyl198 You "literally" ignored part of my post so you could win an argument online. Read it again. No, you are wrong, it is not complete, people with far more hours than you and flattering opinions like CohhCarnage agree that it is unfinished.
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@DrPlans I think you can skip the entire grove plot, because Halsin just tells you what you can learn from the cultists if you infiltrate them yourself, and it sounds like you never even saw the Underdark. there are multiple exits to Act 2, one in the Underdark, and none of them depend on you saving the refugees, the druids, or killing the goblins
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@Bursty55 "8 or 8.5" is an extremely high rating for "the entire combat system is boring." you're just being a contrarian
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@Eelanos I'm in a weird place because I bought the game to play it in Early Access, thought "yes this will be a good CRPG" and then stopped playing it to avoid spoiling myself on unfinished content. so I never even knew about the content they promised weeks before release because I did not want to spoil myself. I very rarely buy games before release but I love Baldur's Gate and CRPGs in general. I feel that I've gotten my money's worth based on the time I've spent in Act 1 alone. It's a real shame, but I hope we'll get the cut content. It's sad that this is the standard now for game development.
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@bananarama1425 Honestly, I have a hard time seeing where that delay outrage comes from. I never expected we would get a Baldur's Gate 3 at all, and the game was already in Early Access for years. If it got delayed to the end of the year, I doubt anyone would have batted an eye. A full year, then yeah, I could see people getting pissed off.
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@Rishi-nc1mn Basically, if you're worried about the game "not having enough content," don't be. The game has plenty of content. However, Larian shot themselves in the foot by specifically promising entire areas in the 3rd Act that did not make it into the game. There are also several endings (related to character stories) that never made it into the game. I have also tried to avoid spoiling myself, but there is no way to get a good ending for at least one of the companions even though there should be, based on what has been data mined. There was also supposed to be more impact to the development involving the illithid tadpole. These weren't promises made years ago, they were made just weeks before launch
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