Strax efter att #Beamdog Interactive släppte expansionen Siege of Dragonspear till #Baldur's Gate hördes högljudd kritik på forum världen över. Visst, det fanns ett par buggar men fokus låg på den transexuella karaktären Mizhena.
De mest högljudda kritikerna menade att detta bara handlade om "politisk korrekhet" medan andra sa att karaktären helt enkelt var dåligt skriven. I ett långt foruminlägg på studions forum förklarar Trent Oster deras syn på saken. Han kan hålla med om att en så pass komplex karaktär skulle ha behövt mer utvecklingstid är han tydlig med att de hot och trakasserier som utvalda medarbetare fått utstå på grund av Mizhena aldrig är acceptabelt.
We’ve received feedback around Mizhena, a supporting character who reveals she is transgender. In retrospect, it would have been better served if we had introduced a transgender character with more development. This is a lesson we will be carrying forward in our development as creators and we will be improving this character in a future update.
The last few days have showed us how passionately many of our fans care for our games. We've had a lot of great feedback from players who love the expansion and are having a great time experiencing the first new Baldur's Gate story in 15 years.
While we appreciate all feedback we receive from our fans, both positive as well as negative, some of the negative feedback has focused not on Siege of Dragonspear but on individual developers at Beamdog -- to the point of online threats and harassment.I just want to make it crystal clear that Beamdog does not condone this behavior, and moreover that it will not have the desired effect as we stand behind all our developers 100%. We created the game as a group, and moving forward we'll work on the game's issues as a group, which I believe is exactly as it should be.
Hela inlägget, som går att läsa på det officiella forumet, adresserar också ett par andra saker kring expansionen som diskuterats flitigt. Du kan läsa det i sin helhet här.
