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What I love is that means this game would have been a success at 100k concurrent. That makes this a runaway success. Hopefully other triple As are paying attention to what Larian is doing.

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.

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".

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.

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 love headlines like this.

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

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?

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

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. :)

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?

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

I mean yeah, bear sex

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?

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!