Baldur's Gate 3 Surpassed 800,000 Concurrent Players on Steam Over the Weekend - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 August 2023 / 2,535 Views
Larian Studios' Baldur's Gate 3 on Friday had surpassed 500,000 concurrent players, which made it the 12th game ever on Steam to reach 500,000 concurrent players.
The CRPG on Sunday reached a new peak having topped 800,000 concurrent players with a peak of 814,666, according to SteamDB. This is enough to make the game the ninth highest number of concurrent players in the history of Steam.
Baldur's Gate 3 released on PC via Steam and GOG on August 3. It 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.
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Couldn't happen to a more deserving dev. Really happy for Larian. They've been arguably the best RPG dev for years, and they've knocked it out the park again.
Yes, this is great. They deserve it 100%! I mean Divinity Sins 2 was already hard to beat to be honest but the game is amazing and while I was afraid the D&D 5e rules would be an issue and I'm happy to see that they really "adapted" a lot of them to make it work perfectly in a videogame...
This is such a fantastic year for RPG :) This baby now and then Starfield in a month.
Got to play throughout the weekend and my god.......I haven't felt this immersed in a game, an RPG especially, in idk how many years. I highly recommend everyone, please play this game! Whether you're on PC or console and whether you're an RPG fan or not. To say Larian created something really special here, is an understatement!
This may end up being my GOTY if not GOTG.
Its also the number one pre ordered game on PSN.
https://mp1st.com/news/baldurs-gate-3-reaches-1-spot-for-best-selling-pre-orders-on-psn-following-pc-launch
Hope they polish it nice for ps5 , divinity 2 worked great on ps4.
Theres PC players saying it controlls really well on a gamepad, and that they imagine its better suited for a console port than Divinity OS 2 was. Basically PS5 owners are in for a treat.
Music to me, want me a wrpg in a fantasy setting
Are they not all pretty much in fantasy settings? like at least a good 80% of them?.
No its more like 92.38. % so you are wrong. Do i need to pay five dolars to mute you ?
Ok ill give you that thats a good one :-D :-D .
The game is AMASING! I highly recammend this one to... anyone that hasn't gotten it yet. Esp so if you enjoy RPGs or CRPGs. Its just so well crafted, you cant help but like it.
In my humble opinion, the top 3 RPG makers in the industry right now are Larian, InXile, and Obsidian! Huge and much deserved congrats to Larian, loving every second of BG3 so far!
I've changed my mind after playing this game more. I honestly do now think its going to sell great on consoles. I think after being so tied down to simple rpg games for so long this is going to be the game to wake console gamers up and let them see your rpgs should have so much choice and what you do in them should mean something!.
Welcome to one of the greatest CRPG's and i will say RPG's ever made console gamers cant wait for you to try this :-D .
BG3 really made FF16 forgotten.
Suprised Square doesnt go back to using the old fundamentals.
Luckily for Playstation, it's also a timed console exclusive
Using the old fundamentals would not have changed anything. In fact the combat is one of the most praised things about FF16 including the boss battles. This is just a very good game that at this point might even pull GOTY out from under everyone.
