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.
Devinoch wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 03:49:
Er, I'm pretty sure you mean regressive right.
I'm not even sure what a regressive leftist would be...
nin wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 09:55:
Isn't it amazing how stupid he is? On the one hand you're feeding him, but on the other the responses are so comical I can actually see the appeal of stringing him along...
Him using the phase "the weak-minded males out there including all those coming out of the woodwork on this site" is especially humorous/ironic...that part made me laugh out loud. What an idiot.
Julio wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 12:10:
There are plenty of websites that exist if you want to see pics of guys in their boxers.
Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 11:52:
It's shit like this that makes me wish there was a forum rule that if you're going to go on and on about the "decline of men", you need to post up to date, verifiable photo(s) of yourself in your boxers first. If you aren't a virile specimen of male strength and beauty
Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 11:52:Wraith wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 11:31:
It's possible to have female friends, but genuine female friends are women you have a mutual respect with - not women you have a secret yearning to fuck.
So men can only be friends with women if the women in question are ugly/sexually unattractive?
Wraith wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 11:31:
It's possible to have female friends, but genuine female friends are women you have a mutual respect with - not women you have a secret yearning to fuck.
Wraith wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 11:31:Beamer wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 09:23:So you're nice to women and men in equal measure in equal ways are you dude?
I always find it interesting that "real men" are the ones convinced that anyone else is only nice to people so it will "gain him pussy."
Horseshit.Dude, I don't suffer the illusions about self that you clearly do. Men are nice to women because they want pussy.
It's like you people (yes, you people) can't fathom someone doing something for reasons other than direct personal gain.
It's possible to have female friends, but genuine female friends are women you have a mutual respect with - not women you have a secret yearning to fuck.
Beamer wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 09:23:So you're nice to women and men in equal measure in equal ways are you dude?
I always find it interesting that "real men" are the ones convinced that anyone else is only nice to people so it will "gain him pussy."
Dude, I don't suffer the illusions about self that you clearly do. Men are nice to women because they want pussy.
It's like you people (yes, you people) can't fathom someone doing something for reasons other than direct personal gain.
Tachikoma wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 07:20:
It`s truly chilling that we can read such toxic garbage in 2016. Even more reasons to back the occasionally annoying "SJWs".
Beamer wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 09:23:
I always find it interesting that "real men" are the ones convinced that anyone else is only nice to people so it will "gain him pussy."
nin wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 09:55:
Isn't it amazing how stupid he is? On the one hand you're feeding him, but on the other the responses are so comical I can actually see the appeal of stringing him along...
Him using the phase "the weak-minded males out there including all those coming out of the woodwork on this site" is especially humorous/ironic...that part made me laugh out loud. What an idiot.
Julio wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 05:08:Devinoch wrote on Apr 7, 2016, 18:34:Julio wrote on Apr 7, 2016, 16:45:Devinoch wrote on Apr 7, 2016, 16:13:
"Extremist." God knows when people having equal rights became extremist.
If you think the SJWs want equal rights, I've got a bridge to sell you. It's all about the elimination of men.
I saw "elimination of men" and then obvious troll became TOO obvious. The gig is up.
By "elimination of men", I mean elimination of what men are and what real men are. The SJW focus is about trying to make men weak, powerless, feeling less than equal, not have the ability to single parent their children, and take away their manhood. Sure it will work on the weak-minded males out there including all those coming out of the woodwork on this site, but there are still plenty of us who are real men with spines.
Indoctrination of the young at "educational" institutions, ownership of the media, and now they're putting their extremist beliefs into games. They'll quote bullshit like "women are paid less than men" when they aren't for the exact (and I mean exact) same job.
Wraith wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 09:21:Julio wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 05:08:Ain't that the truth. The weak male is the natural ally of the feminist - he has no power of his own and hopes that allying with the feminist cause will gain him
By "elimination of men", I mean elimination of what men are and what real men are. The SJW focus is about trying to make men weak, powerless, feeling less than equal, not have the ability to single parent their children, and take away their manhood. Sure it will work on the weak-minded males out there including all those coming out of the woodwork on this site, but there are still plenty of us who are real men with spines.
pussy. He is, of course, mistaken.Indoctrination of the young at "educational" institutions, ownership of the media, and now they're putting their extremist beliefs into games. They'll quote bullshit like "women are paid less than men" when they aren't for the exact (and I mean exact) same job.I think Milo Yiannopolous is right when he says the upcoming great political conflict is not going to be about left versus right, but about cultural authoritarianism (which, granted is primarily driven by the regressive left) and cultural libertarianism.
Julio wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 05:08:Ain't that the truth. The weak male is the natural ally of the feminist - he has no power of his own and hopes that allying with the feminist cause will gain him
By "elimination of men", I mean elimination of what men are and what real men are. The SJW focus is about trying to make men weak, powerless, feeling less than equal, not have the ability to single parent their children, and take away their manhood. Sure it will work on the weak-minded males out there including all those coming out of the woodwork on this site, but there are still plenty of us who are real men with spines.
Indoctrination of the young at "educational" institutions, ownership of the media, and now they're putting their extremist beliefs into games. They'll quote bullshit like "women are paid less than men" when they aren't for the exact (and I mean exact) same job.I think Milo Yiannopolous is right when he says the upcoming great political conflict is not going to be about left versus right, but about cultural authoritarianism (which, granted is primarily driven by the regressive left) and cultural libertarianism.
Julio wrote on Apr 8, 2016, 05:08:
By "elimination of men", I mean elimination of what men are and what real men are. The SJW focus is about trying to make men weak, powerless, feeling less than equal, not have the ability to single parent their children, and take away their manhood. Sure it will work on the weak-minded males out there including all those coming out of the woodwork on this site, but there are still plenty of us who are real men with spines.
Indoctrination of the young at "educational" institutions, ownership of the media, and now they're putting their extremist beliefs into games. They'll quote bullshit like "women are paid less than men" when they aren't for the exact (and I mean exact) same job.
Devinoch wrote on Apr 7, 2016, 18:34:Julio wrote on Apr 7, 2016, 16:45:Devinoch wrote on Apr 7, 2016, 16:13:
"Extremist." God knows when people having equal rights became extremist.
If you think the SJWs want equal rights, I've got a bridge to sell you. It's all about the elimination of men.
I saw "elimination of men" and then obvious troll became TOO obvious. The gig is up.