But have you considered how many macrotransactions they can fit in it. Escape from Tarkov was selling some crap for $250 a pop and it didnt even have everything.
Youre thinking "how can this game be fun" which is not the consideration of the people in charge of coordinating a project like this. They're thinking "how much money can we get for as little creative work as possible"
Honestly, I can picture the pitch meeting being - "okay we ran out of Halo, we're out of Destiny, what else do we have in the back catalogue. The fuck is Marathon?? Sure slap that over the microtransaction genre de jure and the hogs will eat that slop up."
I guess its not as cynical as turning it into a gacha game
"Our definition is that you better open your wallets and give us a lotta money for this." Actually $40 doesn't seem so bad.
I'm not into the pvp escape from tarkov thing. I've tried it, it's just not for me even a little. It doesn't really make sense to make this a pay to play game - I don't think people who like fps games wanna pay for them when they have a lot on offer for free, I don't think extraction shooter people wanna pay for this, people who like Marathon probably have long moved on to different single player games and if you want a sci fi head trip game - I doubt an extraction shooter is the way to explore that.
It feels like they wanna double dip, get the people who are willing to pay for it then a year later or whatever let it go free to play before it inevitably collapses due to no interest.
At least it's not Strom Thurmand mad about the civil rights act with the longest speaking time record anymore...
Any race can be any class, don't worry it's not that kind of game.
Dragonborn came to Faerun only recently. Magic nonsense from changing editions. If you know a bit about forgotten realms lore, Aber and Toril and some crossover stuff happen.
If you wanna RP stuff, think about how your character learned to be a druid! BG3 gives you plenty of reason to be travelling with a group of weirdos, so you don't have to worry about jiving with party members. You all have a really good reason to travel together and work towards a common end.