Pre-release, everything I'd heard about the game was pushing me away - class tweaks, party shrinking, location, etc - but the whole 'IT HAS ROMANCE NOW!' talking point was a big worry, then when it released and I realised it was just jammed with bioware-sexual, crit role voiced chars, I said no thanks. Josh Sawyer is a woke cucktivist and doesn't want my money anyhow.
I hadn't even heard about that but it fits. On the other hand, with Avellone already gone by then, would you even want a non-Avellone-written Durance? They'd probably write him as a pathetic gay turbocuck in retaliation for all his Magran misogyny. And then patch him out completely as a disavow of Avellone, after that laughable metoo.
Same, I read something like you can't go on a boat trip without someone trying to but fuck you.
Pre-release, everything I'd heard about the game was pushing me away - class tweaks, party shrinking, location, etc - but the whole 'IT HAS ROMANCE NOW!' talking point was a big worry, then when it released and I realised it was just jammed with bioware-sexual, crit role voiced chars, I said no thanks. Josh Sawyer is a woke cucktivist and doesn't want my money anyhow.
I'm sure POE2 did just fine without us /s
For me it was that they cut Durance for political reasons.
I hadn't even heard about that but it fits. On the other hand, with Avellone already gone by then, would you even want a non-Avellone-written Durance? They'd probably write him as a pathetic gay turbocuck in retaliation for all his Magran misogyny. And then patch him out completely as a disavow of Avellone, after that laughable metoo.