Well, with the only exception of Patch 4, their changelog/warning has always been on the same day the update released, usually.
Not to cry because "senpai Larian is not noticing me" (hell, I'm probably better without any direct interaction with them that could end up with someone being abused with a whip-chain), but let me point how weird it feels being a freeloader on their Discord server and observing that Larian employees seem to come to life and write in their own chat ONLY when it comes to sucking off "famous" Youtubers covering their games, mostly with memes about shirtless Halsin being super-hot or other vague forms of simping, then back to being completely silent for DAYS in-between.
They are the new bioware , dragon age 2 meme was about varric hairchest. Have a look at BG3 reddit, its bioware forum all over again . Maybe worse hardly discussing the game mechanics anymore, it's all about fan art.
why can't some company just take that engine and pump out old AD&D modules 2 times a year? Seems like they would have had a steady market for 20-30 years w/o only minor upgrades to the engine as time went on..
WotC isn't keen on licensing its old discontinued products. They see old editions as threats to the popularity of the current one and will do everything in their power to stop them from resurfacing. I honestly don't know how Beamdog got away with Siege of Dragonspear, probably only because they sold it as an expansion for an already existing game.
There is simpler explanation: They want to promote the current edition, because that's the one they have in stock (and the one you have to "upgrade" to. With your cold, plastic card). After 5E there will be 6E and so on, and so forth. "Nothing personal, Jack. It's just... good business".
Yes, that's what I was saying. They want the current edition to be in the spotlight and see the older ones as potential threats. That's also why every time they come up with a new edition they start to throw shit on the previous one.
How are they "throwing shit on the previous one"?
That's not dumb, if people realize they can just use old editions, probably a pirated version , and do pretty much the same thing ,having the same fun , maybe more, thats very bad for business and why hire all those guys . They have to make ancient editions disappear and look outdated. Anything in BG3 could not happen if it was using 2E ruleset instead ? I dont think so .
A good chunk of the marketing for 4E consisted of repeatedly stating that everyone who enjoyed 3.x was a munchkin unable to appreciate a real RPG. With 5E they toned down the verbal abuse, but still acted in the most harmful possible ways towards fans of previous editions, taking down online resources very useful to everyone who was still playing 3.5. Obviously, they had the right to do so, but conveniently acted only when they needed to steer the player base towards the new edition.
That's absolutely not true. People can still use old editions (you can still buy virtually any book ever published on DriveThruRPG), and yet everyone uses 5E. Not because WotC acted with hostility towards previous editions, but because they anticipated the desire of the general public for a simple and straightforward edition (and, partially, because they relied on the right influencers).
But there are people who focus on the combat side of things so much that they consider RPGs with very little to no combat to not be RPGs at all. "Murderhobo" is a word that's used pretty frequently on RPG Codex. As is "combatfag" (or "storyfag", for that matter).
Eh, that's just "good business".
this is a good argument though
