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Baldur's Gate 3

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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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For context, Larian Studio founder Swen Vincke predicted that the game could reach 100,000 peak concurrent users during its debut period, and that was a fairly optimistic prediction. I work in IT, and really feel for those folks. I hope they designed their infrastructure to scale!

And that's only Steam, not including GOG, or the influx of PS5 users next month. Let's take it to 1 million!

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[–] silvercove@lemdro.id 7 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I got my game from Gog, so I guess I'm not in that statistic.

[–] ThayWizGwar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I can't find any GOG stats. Doesn't seem like they offer any numbers. I bought the game on Steam, GOG and also the collectors edition, and gave that steam key away. I'm currently only playing on Steam, but I do want to get BG3 up and running on GOG as I do prefer that platform.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

How would GOG know? The attraction of the platform is they hand you the game file and are done with you, no DRM, no tracking, no nothing.

[–] icesentry@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I assume a lot of people that use gog also use gog galaxy. It's nice to know you actually have the game files drm free, but I still prefer having the features in gog galaxy like automatic updates for example.

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