Obviously posting with apparent hindsight etc. etc. but: why were people so sceptical that it would be an actual cRPG given Larian is publishing it as well, and hot on the success of Original Sin 1 + 2?
Obviously because a lot of posters are obsessive whiners and faultfinders combined with either willful or actual retardation.
For instance crying for months about how this is
surely going to be some kind of action RPG (with no information whatsoever to either support or to refute you), then when the game
of course turns out to be turn-based after all, immediately switch gears to whine and complain about something else.
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