They are not moving in a new direction at all, you are imagining things OP just because you didn't like the last expansion
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Damm lets hope not. BSN just became a shitty place, even Bioware is sick of it now and is shutting it down.
Lets hope CDPR fans aren't that toxic and nostalgia obsessed
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Note the very important word "similar". Act IV took place in the main game and was a part of the main story. BaW took place either apart/after the main story, and takes place in a completely different location. It deliberately has a different feel and tone to it by design, just as HoS did. You're free to dislike that tone, but running around like a headless chicken screaming that Cyberpunk 2077 is totally going to have the same tone as Blood and Wine is idiotic at best.
Really it sounds like you just didn't like BaW and are worried that it is what all future games will be like for some dumb reason, so you're making it out to be something worse than it is.
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Because if they really were as obsessed with "pandering", or "winning people back" as you/others seem to believe, a Citadel DLC is exactly what they would've made. But that's not what I think happened. I think the writers, concept artists, gameplay designers, and all the rest of the team have grown weary of the same wartorn Witcher areas they've been making since W1 and the heads wanted to let them try something new and different. Hence Touissant.
Edit: I see the forums have finally achieved their final mutation into the BSN. Can't wait for 10 years from now where Witcher 3 is hailed as "the last good CDPR game" lol.
Damm lets hope not. BSN just became a shitty place, even Bioware is sick of it now and is shutting it down.
Lets hope CDPR fans aren't that toxic and nostalgia obsessed