Gavinmad
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Between the Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment enhanced editions they crapped out Siege of Dragonspear, a really poorly written expansion pack for BG1 that did a very tortured job of creating a direct connection between BG1 and BG2. They also gave Minsc a joke making fun of gamergate and added in a 'btw im a dickchopper' npc which resulted in review bombing and as it stands now a significant portion of the positive reviews are from people who were just trying to counter the review bombing and dont actually have anything positive to say about the game. Even the positive reviews that don't say anything about the controversy don't exactly give it high praise. Trent Oster (founder of Beamdog, original co-founder of Bioware) is a spineless coward so they removed the gamergate joke and moved the "btw im a dickchopper" bit to later in the NPC's dialogue tree so you see it after completing their quest instead of them ambushing you with it like that one character in Andromeda. His sad attempt to appease both sides didn't satisfy anyone.
The controversy is a fairly negligible part of why Dragonspear is bad, it's bad because of bad writing/forcing a bridge between the two games, but it's an indication of what the mentality at the studio was like and given that the studio is in Canada it's a reasonable bet that they've infinitytupled down on hiring woke trash in the six years since then. It will be a very pleasant surprise if Doom of Icewind Dale isn't injected full of modern audience bullshit.
