RogueSix wrote on Sep 11, 2023, 01:17:
Never say never. They have totally reworked the story of Divinity Original Sin for the Enhanced Edition of that game and D:OS was a lot less commercially successful (though it's certainly not like BG3 needs a "total rework"). Also, Larian have already promised to deliver more content in the shape of more fleshed out endings (epilogues).
Except that the reason for the D:OS Enhanced Editions were the much different situations - at the time for OS1 Larian was at the brink of going bankrupt and the Kickstarter money (944k) was the saving point; with that money they had to finish and release it, not much room for extras (like voice overs) and additional changes, that they apparently had in hindsight in mind (and sales were good enough to finance them); and similar with OS2, although on a somewhat bigger scale (bigger game, but also more crowdfunding money and income from OS1), but still a very, very tight budget (2m, so just twice as much as OS1).
All this crap of "lied because cut content" is seriously retarded; all games have "content cut", for some reason or the other; but it gives those idiots in the Steam forums a new reason for BS-outrage; "cut content" has just replaced "woke" as a reason to get artificially mad about something. And not asking for reasons - in this case it might simply not have worked on a technical level, as Act3 seems to be very heavy on the system anyway.
Interesting in that regard:
Tim Cain talking about South Park: Stick of Truth, incl. "cut content"... (just because of his timing, video released yesterday)
They will certainly keep working on the game, improving and even add things for a long time (remember the free mini DLC stuff for OS2 for 12 months? nothing crazy of course, but still free stuff/support). And who knows maybe they even do a DLC despite Swens refusal, with the game's success and demand for "more" it would be almost stupid not to do something (although that gives a new reason for more BS-outrage, like "But Larian has said...blablabla".)
So of course, if someone wants the "...most bestest..." version they should wait until they declare the "last update". But that is nothing new and in no way exclusive to Larian; it has rather become the norm to game development. I wanted to wait til that point as I nowadays use to do - but ...as an exception to my rule... just couldn't. O well, that gives then a reason for another playthrough
On an related-unrelated note - anyone else asking himself how many DLCs Bethesda has already planned for SF? Will it be the average 4 or this time more?