Baldur's Gate #BaldurGate: Siege of Dragonspear

[HatTrick]

I'm sure they are.

Yeah. I'm sure the average person who posts about GG on shit like r/KotakuInAction and /v/ are filled non-reactionary and smart people who would never believe conspiracy shit idiot faggots believe in like cultural Marxism or white genocide. All that shit I've seen that supports this were just figments of my imagination.

 

[Lacrymas]

David Gaider has a point when he says people are making too much over one random NPC who really doesn't do anything.

That's part of the problem. Even if it wasn't I reeeeeaaaally think you shouldn't believe Gaider about anything ever. Bioware shouldn't be used as a measuring stick for... anything really. People do love their virtual waifus I guess, otherwise I don't know why they are still in business.

 

[circ]

Majestic storytelling

If you're MCA and you don't see the difference between that and the bad writing it represents - which I equate to a placard hastily written in 5 minutes; and actual historic propaganda - even if you remove the elaborate prose - you gotta be out of your fucking mind.

 

[gunman]

It's the same voice actor.

that's not Minsc, that's some faggit with a stick up his arse.

This is what working for Beamdog does to a man.

 

[Lagole Gon]

Man, I sure do love some Baldur's Gate. Let's check out this new Baldur's Gate interquel...



Welp.
I'm kind of sad right now.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Not all SJW look the part. Being belgian, female and video game writer should be enough to set the alert until proven innocent.

In case it wasn't clear yet, she wrote a lot of stuff in D:OS so no, it's pretty clear she isn't another crazy SJW pushing an agenda.

good goy automaton with no mind of his own

Keep that retarded bullshit in GD where it belongs.

 

[PhantasmaNL]

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/51161/beamdog-statement-on-siege-of-dragonspear

I'm Trent Oster, CEO of Beamdog.

First off, everyone here is ecstatic to have shipped Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear. Siege represents years of hard work by a dedicated team that we grew from a combination of home grown talent, original Baldur's Gate modders and former Bioware developers. Siege of Dragonspear represents more than 25 hours of new Baldur’s Gate gameplay, and more than 500,000 words of writing. I’m proud of our team for launching this great expansion.

We’ve received feedback around Mizhena, a supporting character who reveals she is transgender. In retrospect, it would have been better served if we had introduced a transgender character with more development. This is a lesson we will be carrying forward in our development as creators and we will be improving this character in a future update.

The last few days have showed us how passionately many of our fans care for our games. We've had a lot of great feedback from players who love the expansion and are having a great time experiencing the first new Baldur's Gate story in 15 years.
While we appreciate all feedback we receive from our fans, both positive as well as negative, some of the negative feedback has focused not on Siege of Dragonspear but on individual developers at Beamdog -- to the point of online threats and harassment.

I just want to make it crystal clear that Beamdog does not condone this behavior, and moreover that it will not have the desired effect as we stand behind all our developers 100%. We created the game as a group, and moving forward we'll work on the game's issues as a group, which I believe is exactly as it should be.

We’ve received valuable feedback around some bugs we failed to catch for ship. We're hard at work right now patching up the issues that slipped through and we're striving to ship fixes and improvements quickly. We will provide a complete list of the issues we plan to address in our next update. Issues of note we are addressing are:

Multiplayer – We are acting on reports of multiplayer issues and hope to have this fixed in the next update.

Minsc – Minsc has a line which generated controversy. Looking back on the line, we agree with the feedback from our community, it has nothing to do with his character and we will be removing the line.

We hope all our players continue to enjoy Siege of Dragonspear and we look forward to providing an update in the near future.

Regards,
-Trent

 

[Excidium II]

Not all SJW look the part. Being belgian, female and video game writer should be enough to set the alert until proven innocent.

In case it wasn't clear yet, she wrote a lot of stuff in D:OS so no, it's pretty clear she isn't another crazy SJW pushing an agenda.

That's good. But I got my eye on her.

 

[Infinitron]

That's a good statement, I guess.

Dee Posts: 9,475
8:19PM edited 8:21PM
Trent has asked me to remove the comments from the announcement. You can discuss this announcement here.

lul

 

[Excidium II]

some of the negative feedback has focused not on Siege of Dragonspear but on individual developers at Beamdog -- to the point of online threats and harassment.

lmao

I wish I could read those online death threats/harassment people suffer.

"I h8 u!!! HOpe u die >:^]"

 

[DeepOcean]

"Captain, they breached the hull, the ship is sinking!"

Captain: DAMAGE CONTROL!

 

[Excidium II]

This kind of damage can't really be undone.

I guess Maizena is going to be a future bonus companion like the drow sorcerer, so at least they'll put some effort on their sjw pandering.

 

[Hegel]

Check your narrative, son. Drows are the good guys, they dindu nuffin; the plot of DLC no. 1 is served.

 

[AwesomeButton]

That's a good statement, I guess.

Dee Posts: 9,475
8:19PM edited 8:21PM
Trent has asked me to remove the comments from the announcement. You can discuss this announcement here.

lul

Judging from his behavior and the tasks he performs on the forum, I'm getting the feeling this guy also serves as a BeamJanitor in the office. You know, the same way Scott duals as a Writer/Marketing manager.

The statement is balanced, which is nice. They take back the GG line, but promise more tranny content to compensate for it. Let's see how that goes. It's attacking the basis of the argument of those saying that the game does SJW pandering.

P.S. I'm awaiting the SJW outlets to start shitting in their pants over the removal of the GG reference, or maybe not, I guess they'll present it as a "victory" that the trans character gets expanded.

P.P.S. This will go down as the "Minsc Deleted His Tweet" Patch.

 

[Mary Sue Leigh]

Well, I'm satisfied. Now we can finally forget that this ever existed like everyone else will in a couple of weeks, and move on.

 

[Excidium II]

It's attacking the basis of the argument of those saying that the game does SJW pandering.

By giving the tranny even more development?

 

[Space Insect]

At least they realized they should think about it and release actual statements rather than improving their statements.

 

[Lacrymas]

I'm Trent Oster, CEO of Beamdog.

First off, everyone here is ecstatic to have shipped Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear. Siege represents years of hard work by a dedicated team that we grew from a combination of home grown talent, original Baldur's Gate modders and former Bioware developers. Siege of Dragonspear represents more than 25 hours of new Baldur’s Gate gameplay, and more than 500,000 words of writing. I’m proud of our team for launching this great expansion.

Damage control, demagogue-ary, wanking etc...

First of all "years of hard work" doing what exactly? Coding the gameplay that isn't theirs? Second of all "25 hours of new Baldur's Gate gameplay", I think someone needs a refresher course about the difference between gameplay and content. Third of all "500,000 words of writing", so what? I can write a bajillion words, that doesn't mean anything. Fourth of all "proud of [his] team for launching this great expansion", so he's basically proud of them having achieved something close to nothing? Huh, I'm particularly bitter about this for some reason. Also, his mention of "talent" triggers me.

I have no other comments, everything else was kinda expected to be honest. They couldn't just keep saying "lololol we don't care, fuck you". They still won't sell any noticeable amount of copies, so so much for that. They say they are going to try to "improve" but that doesn't fill me with hope because I'm not entirely sure they know what that word means or what they even need to improve.

 

[Hegel]

Years of appropriation of the hard work of modders.

 

[Tacgnol]

Bit late in the day for damage control like that?

 

[Maculo]

:D :D :D

Please god no. Who would even suggest that on their forums?

Will the Transcendent One become the Patriarchal One?

 

[Infinitron]

Man, if you guys are gonna start freaking out about every old forum post, how about going way back to 2012, when Trent Oster was still in his arrogant greenfield mode and talking about adding multiplayer to PS:T? Yes, that actually happened.

 

[Mustawd]

Third of all "500,000 words of writing", so what? I can write a bajillion words, that doesn't mean anything.

Pretty sure my posts contain a lot more than this and at a higher quality

It's attacking the basis of the argument of those saying that the game does SJW pandering.

By giving the tranny even more development?

The statement is balanced, which is nice. They take back the GG line, but promise more tranny content to compensate for it. Let's see how that goes. It's attacking the basis of the argument of those saying that the game does SJW pandering.

Yes, I'm good with more development in a realistic way that does not define the character just because they are trans. Also glad the GG line is gone.

Well, I'm satisfied. Now we can finally forget that this ever existed like everyone else will in a couple of weeks, and move on.

 

[Trashos]

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/51161/beamdog-statement-on-siege-of-dragonspear

I'm Trent Oster, CEO of Beamdog.

First off, everyone here is ecstatic to have shipped Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear. Siege represents years of hard work by a dedicated team that we grew from a combination of home grown talent, original Baldur's Gate modders and former Bioware developers. Siege of Dragonspear represents more than 25 hours of new Baldur’s Gate gameplay, and more than 500,000 words of writing. I’m proud of our team for launching this great expansion.

We’ve received feedback around Mizhena, a supporting character who reveals she is transgender. In retrospect, it would have been better served if we had introduced a transgender character with more development. This is a lesson we will be carrying forward in our development as creators and we will be improving this character in a future update.

The last few days have showed us how passionately many of our fans care for our games. We've had a lot of great feedback from players who love the expansion and are having a great time experiencing the first new Baldur's Gate story in 15 years.
While we appreciate all feedback we receive from our fans, both positive as well as negative, some of the negative feedback has focused not on Siege of Dragonspear but on individual developers at Beamdog -- to the point of online threats and harassment.

I just want to make it crystal clear that Beamdog does not condone this behavior, and moreover that it will not have the desired effect as we stand behind all our developers 100%. We created the game as a group, and moving forward we'll work on the game's issues as a group, which I believe is exactly as it should be.

We’ve received valuable feedback around some bugs we failed to catch for ship. We're hard at work right now patching up the issues that slipped through and we're striving to ship fixes and improvements quickly. We will provide a complete list of the issues we plan to address in our next update. Issues of note we are addressing are:

Multiplayer – We are acting on reports of multiplayer issues and hope to have this fixed in the next update.

Minsc – Minsc has a line which generated controversy. Looking back on the line, we agree with the feedback from our community, it has nothing to do with his character and we will be removing the line.

We hope all our players continue to enjoy Siege of Dragonspear and we look forward to providing an update in the near future.

Regards,
-Trent

Competent.

But what do I know, I am only a fan of a sexist game and apparently not a BG fan.

 

[Fitz]

when Trent Oster was still in his arrogant greenfield mode and talking about adding multiplayer to PS:T? Yes, that actually happened.

Got a link?