Wizards of the Coast - what could be their reaction to SOD release?
Gloomfrost
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Could reaction to SOD threaten Beamdog future licensing?
Gaider just got on board for either BG3 or a new IP, Planescape: Torment and IWD2 are probably in development as we speak.
Does this mean Wizards of the Coast could either
A.) have much greater oversight and input into Beamdog products that carry their licensing?
or
B.) pull all future licensing effective killing all D&D products?
do you think either could happen?
Gaider just got on board for either BG3 or a new IP, Planescape: Torment and IWD2 are probably in development as we speak.
Does this mean Wizards of the Coast could either
A.) have much greater oversight and input into Beamdog products that carry their licensing?
or
B.) pull all future licensing effective killing all D&D products?
do you think either could happen?
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(Which is what Beamdog should have done)
But regardless, they are a huge company and don't let controversial topics and beliefs into their products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Vile_Darkness
*mic drop*
“The elf god Corellon Larethian is often seen as androgynous or hermaphroditic, for example, and some elves in the multiverse are made in Corellon’s image. You could also play a female character who presents herself as a man, a man who feels trapped in a female body, or a bearded female dwarf who hates being mistaken for a male. Likewise, your character’s sexual orientation is for you to decide.”
So umm... check and mate anyone whose all "waaah but mah intolerant beliefs waahhhh"
Still, the issue with that was "It's not appropriate for a kid's game like DnD"
Even with the sticker on the cover that said "mature audience only".
Beamdog fired shots at GG with that minsc line, and they are reaping the consequences.
They should have stayed out of it.
So there's no way to panic now. Preorders went nicely. SoD gameplay is solid, it's a fine and fun game. The new modding tools are splendid. There're only two critics' reviews, and they're positive.
And any evaluation will be made after a certain time, like a year or more, not after a week.
Some people crave things that make them feel special. They want to feel like they are important and they have power.
They should simply ignore the frothing anti-sjw wave and concentrate on the balance of earnest pleasure with the game vs well thought out and reasoned criticism.
Also the obvious, which is sales too.
and to be quite honest, i think sales are crawling.
Didn't bother to buy SoD or play patch 2.0 yet because of the reviews and posts so I'll probably wait until they are solidly patched and everything ironed out. Don't have a lot of time these days anyway.
I dont think wotc is going to be stopped from making profits for an npc that makes a minimal appareance. If sod sells well, we will get more products no matter, even if they tell beamdog that in the future try to keep their mouths a bit more closed, because feeding the trolls is never good.
Ps. And, regarding sales, so far i like the game quite a lot. It has some bugs (and that ui mess...) but i know those will be fixed on time. Looking beyong those bugs I think the game is great.
Way to cool heads.
You are just as bad as they are.
IMO, as someone from GG, I don't *like* seeing Minsc used to insult me. Think about that for a second, think of it as a character you love from any source, anime, games, whatever. Maybe say, Goku might make a joke that feminism is lame in Dragon Ball Super. You know, something cheap like that, that really has no place in the source material.
It really serves no purpose other than to insult and inflame, so why is it there in the first place? If the writer stands by the joke and wants to keep it in, it's only natural that the writer, and thereby the company, would feel the dissatisfaction and lack of support from fans who fall under that banner.
For example, I hate Steve Moffat as show runner on Doctor Who. His writing is over the top awful. I don't write letters on his web page attacking him, I don't tweet at him and I don't try and undermine sales of Doctor Who DVDs or get him fired by the BBC. Because I'm not a ridiculous, petty, childish person. I just don't spend my money on the products and I watch the old stuff I likedand continue to enjoy. That's how adults respond. You might send one letter politely explaining your objections so the company knows why you e stopped sending them money but declaring some kind of cultural fatwah is not a mature response
The majority here likely didn't even know about GG to begin with. I didn't.
I *could* simply walk away from this whole nonsense, Beamdog having lost the support of someone who has loved Baldur's Gate his entire life, and be the end of it. I prefer instead to make my feelings known to Beamdog such that they might learn from this, in particular, their quality of writing, and the handling of controversy. You know why? Because I fucking love this series. I love the setting, I love the characters, I can't express how much, because BG got me started on PC gaming. I want to see a BG3, and I want to see it done by Beamdog. However, I want to see them handle all facets of the gaming community with respect, not just the ones that their writer or writers currently agree with.
Also, I want to point out that I've engaged in no fake-review bombing or any other such nonsense, nor are there currently any calls to do so on the KiA subreddit. If there were, I would go and comment in them with my dissent. It seems like anyone currently doing so is doing so if their own volition, rather than because there was a concerted effort to do so.
As for ethics in gaming journalism, take a visit over to deepfreeze.it, where GG folks have chronicled various ethical violations of gaming journos for the public to see. Once you've read you fill, please return to this thread and tell me that GG isn't at least partially about ethics.
Thank you.