‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K

That's awesome. Also the lack of micro transactions makes me want to support them more. I kinda wish they had a donate button or something.

Good thing is, it runs flawless on my Linux desktop too 👍 Just one of the best games I played in years. Good it payed out for larian to invest so much time into it. Maybe a good example for others that you do not need to rush a launch.

We need to support and embrace this kind of games and studios more. They put so much love and effort into the game. But in the end, this game will probably profit as much as what Fortnite make in a couple months.

It's always sadden me to know that even something as successful as Elden Ring, which sold 20 millions copies and made 1.2 Billion dollars, is nothing compared to what microtransactions make in games like CoD (2 Billion dollars per year) or Fortnite (over 5 Billion dollars per year).

And people complain why they "don't make good games anymore".

The saddest thing is that with the destruction of the media over the past 20 years, I'm still waiting to hear whether it's actually any good or not.

I don't hear much talk of the optimization but the simple fact this is running great on a wide range of devices says a lot of the engineering prowess of the studio. Its amazing how well this game is runningnon my five year old machine. I know thats not too old but some new games make my cooling loop hot and this one doesn't even make my components work that hard.

I haven't played any Baldurs gate before, but the hype has definitely made me look into it.

Definitely seems like a game I'd like, a fantasy RPG, I haven't always loved turned based combat, so that's one of my hold ups. What do y'all think of the combat system?

I love headlines like this.

Larian makes such great games. This kind of success means maybe a BG4 somewhere down the line.

So.... I'm the only one not playing it?

As someone who hasn't ever really gotten into cRPGs before, how is the game? Is it hard to get into/is there a big learning curve to this game?

I have added the Baldur's Gate series to my backlog, I will probably play these in 10-15 years, wish me luck.

Odd headline. Seems very rooted in the assumption of online gaming these days to me but then you get in and the article is basically just saying the game is a huge success, which is great news I'm sure we can all agree. :)

I mean yeah, bear sex

750k concurrent players several days after release, quite the feat!

I absolutely adore and admire those at Larian studios. Divinity 2 is one of the best games I've ever played. I hope I can play BG3 one day since I don't have the funds for a system that will run it or better yet, it becomes available on Geforce Now or something because I got a damn wedding to pay for and bills to pay!

Why is it a problem that IT was not prepared for so many concurrent players? Yes, it has multiplayer, but it's mostly a single-player game. Did they pull a Diablo?

That's wonderful!

I wish my shitty ADHD-OCD mix brain would let me play it instead of doing shit through a system or something. I can't even play anything I want to cuz I'll feel bad that I'm not something the universe would want me to

Well deserved, haven’t play it a lot personally but friends are very much still raving about it after playing for 20+ hours, so well worth it.

This makes me so happy to read. Thanks

It seems this game has local coop? I was wondering if it was a nice experience for me and my GF

My friends keep telling me that getting the game is unethical because it supports Wizards, so I've not gotten it yet. I know Wizards is shitty and sent the Pinkertons to someone's house, but does this game actually directly support them? Can anyone here weigh in on this? Should I just pirate the game instead? It looks fun, but I also don't want to put my money in a bad place.

Not sure why the author makes a big deal about the game being single player. I’m intending to play it with my friend. Just waiting for his PC upgrade to arrive.

It's one of the best gaming experiences I had in years!

I should make a Drow....

I'm so hoping my husband will play this with me when it comes out on Ps5. He rarely plays games with me - but this one is too fun is to pass up

Asking as someone who plays DnD 5e, how much of the fun of this game is in playing multiplayer with a consistent party?

I wanna contribute to that number but I've encountered a progression halting glitch. :(

what is baldurs gate? ive nevet heard of it, skyrim 2.0?

Won't even launch for me on steam deck, tried all the proton types, verifying files, restarting the deck, dx11 or vulkan, etc etc.

Nothing.

Incredibly big waste of money and disappointment

Wasn't sure if I still had a taste for this kind of game, but I'm loving it so far.

Waiting on the Xbox release date announcement

I just got Diablo and Dave the diver!

Not sure of others having been having issues with steam save file cloud sync but it seems like every other time i try to start the game it hangs on syncing errors. Wonder if it's just me or maybe a bunch of people due to the larger than expected concurrent player number.

closed source spyware, trash

Getting it for a winter project 🖖🏻