Baldur's Gate 3 Tops 500,000 Concurrent Players on Steam - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 August 2023 / 5,580 Views
Larian Studios released Baldur's Gate 3 yesterday, August 3, for PC via Steam and GOG and the game has proven to be very popular.
The RPG broke 500,000 concurrent players today, according to SteamDB. This is enough to make the game the 11th highest number of concurrent players in the history of Steam and the 12th game ever on Steam to reach 500,000 concurrent players.
Baldur's Gate III has passed Half a Million Concurrent Players on Steam
— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) August 4, 2023
It has also passed the All-Time peaks of Fallout 4, Among Us, Call of Duty, and Valheim to become the #11 Highest Player Count for a game in the History of Steam pic.twitter.com/1A4cBrxq4J
Baldur's Gate 3 will also launch for the PlayStation 5 on September 6. It is also in development for the Xbox Series X|S, however, there is no release date yet for the Xbox version.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Great game so far loving it.
HYPE!!! As of the time of this writing, the game is at 517,000 players. So it can still go higher throughout the day and into the weekend. Hopefully this means we're entering a CRPG golden age! I can't wait to finally be able to hop on tonight.
Massive congratulations to Larian! Another GOTY contender.
It will be the best rated rpgthis year, probably GOTY
Elden Ring might not be a pure RPG, but it's still probably competition in the RPG genre. Still, BG3 is probably going to grab some GotY awards this year, but for the overall GotY, there's some serious competition. This is shaping up to be a great year in terms of new releases.
I think Elden RIng was 2022?
Oops. Time flies by, I guess? :-D It doesn't help that I haven't played Elden Ring yet, so personal experience doesn't really help attach any timeframe to it... I suppose in that case BG3 might be a strong contender in the RPG category.
Lots of success. Well deserved. Party based RPG are some of my favourite games, so hoping this rubs off on the industry to produce more.
However, it being a nice genre, means a developer is more likely to put love and care into it... Either way you wanna look at it.
Well deserved, it's an incredible game and my GOTY.
Do you like tabletop RPG, D&D 5e?
Yes? If so, you will love this game.
I rather play It on PC, cause mods and K/M, but It can also be played on PS5.
Not avaible on Xbox atm ( problems related to series S), but it will ( more than likely ) be coming at some time in the Future. (2024?)
As much as I'm not big on TB RPG's these days, it would be nice to actually see a CRPG like BG3 get a spot or even possibly win GoTY.
Very nice. Well be my next game even after I told myself no more new games this year. The second half of this year has just been to strong though.
This genre is not exactly my cup of tea, but I will give it a try when it comes to GamePass.
Seeing as it's selling as much as it is I don't think it makes much sense to put this into GP or PSPlus for some time. Think about it this way, Sony and Microsoft get platforming fees for every sale. If the game sales a couple million on Xbox that $50 million coming in as opposed to paying them $50 for it kn their service. It just doest make sense.
It is selling well on PC; but that doesn't mean that it is going to sell that well on Consoles. Two totally different audiences. That is why Naraka: Bladepoint made it to GamePass, even though it has been on Steam top 100 sellers for more than 100 consecutive weeks (outselling the likes of Elden Ring and Hogwars Legacy).
This is what amazes me with some console fans trying to use this game as troll bait. This game is PC first everything else 2nd. This game is going to sell for years on PC thanks to mods etc etc. This game is not casual like say skyrim. this is a proper CRPG. Anyone things this game is going to do huge numbers on Console like say ES7 would or even Starfield is in for a shock. And thats not me saying them games are better then BG3 as i am loving every muinute of it so far where i dont know how ES7 or SF are going to be. But i do know the is no way is BG3 going to sell better than them two games as its just common since with such a niche genre now.
Its currently best seller on PSN preorders:
https://mp1st.com/news/baldurs-gate-3-reaches-1-spot-for-best-selling-pre-orders-on-psn-following-pc-launch
But whatever. I guess a game that sells well on PC and gets high 90 metacretic can actually sell on the lowly PS5. You guys need help. The hate train has rotted your brains.
Hearing a lot of good things about this games systems and choices.....but hardly anything about it being fun or if it has good writing, etc.
Everyone who played says its super funny. Funny to play? if you like the type of rpg it probably its the best
So in other words you know nothing about it, dont plan on playing it but your hyping it?.
Why are you replying nonsense at a saturday night to me in a gaming forum ?
It depends on what your idea of fun is. If your only used to JRPGs or casual RPGs i dont know how much fun you would have out of this game before it felt overwhelming. The is a lot they done to make it easier for casual gamers just stepping into the genre if they pick easier settings but even that can still be a lot to take in. From what i played so far the is so many choices and options you can take to do something that if you find that stuff fun you will like this game imo. and so far it has a good story imo.
I will be picking this up on PS5 next month. And before the fanboys have a baby. I'm sure it will make its way to Xbox too.
