People have pointed out that this content in bg3 is more of a choice, but I wouldn’t discount that part of what put people off of veilguard is the use of identity terminology that felt foreign to the world. Like you can make your character trans or gay or anything in bg3, but nobody ever addresses this, so the player can interpret the “meaning” however they want. How would such a character be understood in the universe of the game? The player decides. Bg3 doesn’t take a position on whether any 21st century real world identity concepts are applicable
In Baldur's Gate 3 you can be trans and queer and that game sold over 20 mil copies. The chuds saying the reason Bioware didn't sell well with their recent games was because of "activism" are absolutele delusional troglodytes the need to go outside.
@crumwellforever There is! If you take a tadpole, you have to succeed a wisdom check to decline the astral tadpole. Unless you mean that that’s not a real consequence because you can still play out the rest of the game the same way
@crumwellforever Yeah, it’s thematically built around religious and/or sexual/relationship trauma, so its concerns are definitely woke, but I think it mostly lets its audience come to their own conclusions about what it presents
@kisstheblade_ I always just think about getting sick and/or old. Is whoever gets sicker first just screwed under this worldview? “Yeah sorry, you got cancer and can’t work anymore early enough that I’m still in my prime, I’m out.” Just psycho stuff
Worked there for 4 years. One time they did a super fun April Fool’s Day joke where the managing partner emailed everyone to announce a new “Work-Life Balance Policy” ending all evening and weekend work, then followed up with “APRIL FOOLS” then followed up again with an apology
@Howlingmutant0 Yeah, they could’ve just called it “[arbitrary fantasy name]” and have the characters kind of know what it is, like they’re half remembering in-universe stories they heard
What strikes me about this is the reasoning for the requested discharge upgrade: “it will interfere with my life, what I want will be harder because of this, it conflicts with my plans.” None of these are reasons that a discharge upgrade would be warranted