Bg3 news ( i still think this should be In General as it has impact on boundless)

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@Kal-El

I personally find it disheartening that all the artwork for items that were intended to be added to the game, will likely never be introduced or best case could still be multiple years away. […] there were planned changes to the workshop machinery that I personally was looking forward to and the entire forum had already seen the artwork for these new machines.

From the first trailers in 2014, you could tell the dev-team were bitting far more than they could ever chew. I mean come on, not only did they promise many times the Titans, the Hunter, the Ground-basher or whatever, they also promised more than a dozen alternate playable races, wearable clothing, etc.
The alternate races thing already smelled like something that would never happen.
And of course, let’s not forget the TON of concept-arts done by Minyi. Those were what was making me dream.

@Kal-El

Now they get as nasty and personal as they want with the apparent goal of getting the thread locked or hidden.

This entire thread is where it is right now (in the forum’s unofficial trash bin) entirely because of that. Before that other guy came to play “let’s pretend I’m a moderator”, we were having a fairly decent conversation. But noooo, he had to act like we were forcing him to read our messages. Truth is, had he said nothing and just thought “y’know what, that thread is just not for me”, it would’ve been fine.

I’ve said it many times before, this forum may not be the most toxic I’ve ever seen, but all the ‘rules’ meant to enforce ‘civil discussion’ like the Flagging feature ONLY serve to do the exact opposite and create an oppressing ambiance. How many times have I seen people use it to hide things they don’t like, but aren’t qualifying to be flagged in the first place?..
It’s the same as the “no naming” rule, which in part is what allowed some REALLY nasty players (yeah, you think I’M a nasty troll? oh boy, you guys should’ve been around when Kras’ was enjoying thinking he was master of the universe, I’m a grey sheep compared to him) to stay around and be ACTUAL trolls both on the forum and in-game.

@Kal-El

However i find it is just as tiring to see the continuing thank the develop threads that seem to pop up every do often. […] I think the thank you threads are just a way of being passive aggressive in reaction to other threads.

Definitely something I thought many times, but wasn’t as good as you to put into proper words.
It’s usually what I mean when I talk of people being ‘overly positive’.

It’s a complicated issue because we have to be happy for the devs if they’re now in a financially better situation… but it’s like they left us all in the Boundless hole with a sign saying “BRB ” and whether they come back or not is almost turning into religion at this point, with the “let’s thank the devs” threads, like “yes brothers and sisters, the second coming of St James will happen soon!”.