Can't there be a middle ground?

[Rylock]

Id like to start off and say that theirs a lot of anger towards each other I have seen in the discussion boards lately, People agreeing and disagreeing with each other on game mechanics/romances/story or what ever it might be.

I think one thing we need to all remember is that we are gamers at heart, we want to throw 60 dollars of our hard earned money from our bad 9-5 jobs. To escape to a world of magic, and fantasy.

All of us are here because we love a lot of what Baldurs Gate 3 represents in terms of an amazing looking RPG game. This along with other RPGs coming out in the near future is a revitalization of the games we grew up loving, from Skyrim, to Divinity, and any other RPG we loved to play.

There is enough room for everyone to have some cake, we don't need to argue, or throw insults because people disagree with small parts of the game. Everyone has somthing they dislike, that is every game. That doesn't make them evil or that there opinion will effect your life.

From myself I say to both sides, meet in the middle and enjoy a game that will bring about a fire in your heart that you haven't felt since the last great game you played. What ever that may have been.

We need not fight over things that are different, or the same as they ever were. We are here to be a community, united in our love of a great studio who has prepared an amazing game for us to enjoy.

Please be patient with people from both sides, just because we disagree doesn't mean we are at war with each other. With that I bid you a great afternoon.

[Boblin the Goblin]

There already is a middle ground. The romance is optional.

[Hobocop]

The middle ground already exists.

You choose to not engage with the content that you don't want to, or vice versa.

D&D is about choices and player agency after all.

And there are more important hills to die on than content in a fantasy ass video game.

[katzenkrimis]

Originally posted by 123:

We want to throw 60 dollars of our hard earned money...

To escape to a world of magic, and fantasy.

90 dollars up north.

Well worth it, to remind ourselves what role-playing games look like.

They certainly don't look like Starfield.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

No.
There is a saying.
Those in the center dont stand for anything.
Also know as apathy is death.

[Nadine]

Don't come at them with facts and mature behaviour please, they are not ready for this

[Leo]

Sorry but no, I have zero patience for people who think my being born gay means I should never have people like myself represented in games, to an optional capacity I might add. Being a gamer does not make you a good human being and any decent human being should not tolerate the type of people out in force on these forums currently that are preaching things like; gay/inclusive characters should not exist in Dungeons and Dragons or that our entire community is 'moral rot' because we have the audacity to exist.

How about instead of sitting on the middle you just be a decent human being and not support the hateful vitriol of people making threads saying the game is 'woke' or 'corrupt' for including a couple of LGBT friendly romance options.

Y'all out here pretending the bear-scene is what started all of this when these people flooded the chat the moment the stream showed a guy kissing another guy.

[Wolfgang421]

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

No.
There is a saying.
Those in the center dont stand for anything.
Also know as apathy is death.

Then leave, you are a fanatic, not a gamer or rational person who enjoys media. Take your book booking, pearl clutching crusade back to your echo chamber, please.

[Sigvuld]

Originally posted by SlowMango:

There already is a middle ground. The romance is optional.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by Wolfgang421:

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

No.
There is a saying.
Those in the center dont stand for anything.
Also know as apathy is death.

Then leave, you are a fanatic, not a gamer or rational person who enjoys media. Take your book booking, pearl clutching crusade back to your echo chamber, please.

No.

[Rylock]

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

No.
There is a saying.
Those in the center dont stand for anything.
Also know as apathy is death.

There is also a saying, those that fight pointless battles will die pointless deaths. I know its a bit dramatic to say but how much does anything this game represents/does, actually affect your life on a daily basis? Is it worth fighting and throwing words around like spears?

[xboondocks7777]

Lmao, this is just great marketing on Larians part. No one will care in 3 weeks, controversy and drama just fuel says, look at hogwarts legacy. People who want to play it will play it and those upset will just get upset at something else.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

There is no middle ground with fascists.

[Jinkaru]

People want to whine, cry and yell, until everything beautiful is taken away so the world can be as ugly as they are.

[Rylock]

Originally posted by Leo:

Sorry but no, I have zero patience for people who think my being born gay means I should never have people like myself represented in games, to an optional capacity I might add. Being a gamer does not make you a good human being and any decent human being should not tolerate the type of people out in force on these forums currently that are preaching things like; gay/inclusive characters should not exist in Dungeons and Dragons or that our entire community is 'moral rot' because we have the audacity to exist.

How about instead of sitting on the middle you just be a decent human being and not support the hateful vitriol of people making threads saying the game is 'woke' or 'corrupt' for including a couple of LGBT friendly romance options.

Y'all out here pretending the bear-scene is what started all of this when these people flooded the chat the moment the stream showed a guy kissing another guy.

It is a bit entitled for you to assume you need to be represented in any fashion in a game because you were born gay? Just as it is entitlement to say that there shouldn't be any gay characters in a game.

Both sides believe they should have something because they deserve, or earned it in some fashion. When in reality no one is owed anything in life except for what they worked for.

[Rylock]

Originally posted by Pan Darius Loveless:

There is no middle ground with fascists.

I would say that is a very fascist stance to take.