Highguard hasn't had the best go of it since launch, which is made evident by the fact that the game's only champion right now appears to be Geoff Keighley. Its player base has dropped pretty dramatically over just a few days, the negative reviews keep piling up on multiple platforms, and it seems like not a single positive word is being spoken about the game online.
However, despite how bleak it may seem for Highguard right now, it does have a fairly high-profile supporter right now, and that's Baldur's Gate 3 lead Swen Vincke. Using his personal Twitter, Vincke came out and stated that he doesn't like people "s****ing on things others have created" because "putting something out into the world makes you vulnerable."
He doesn't outright name Highguard, but given how prominent the game's rapid decline has been on social media over the past few days, it's difficult to imagine anything else spurring this topic. Vincke eventually goes on to explain that due to the vulnerability that comes with putting personal projects out into the world, every piece of art "deserves respect", claiming that it's "easy to destroy things."
Highguard is already being called the C word.
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