D&D General Baldur's Gate 3 Sells Over 20 Million Copies

Henadic Theologian · 2025-12-17T05:26:22+0000

Baldur's Gate 3 has sold over 20 million copies to date

Tencent investment in the studio doesn't give the Chinese giant any control, but has given the developer confidence

www.gamesindustry.biz

That around 1.4 billion in revenue.

Folks who are like WotC won't have all the sex and nudity and gore in BG4 should take a look at those at numbers, for those numbers they'd hire Bonnie Blue, Angela White, and Autumn Falls, if they thought it would help achieve that, so there is no way they will mess with the BG3 formula except for even more options. So that means the game rating remains, reuse of the popular voice actors, barrellancy will remain, etc..., but this time Goliaths and Aasimar will he added to all the BG3 playable species at minimium.

Maybe they will Bastion play as well, I don't know.

Necropolitan · 2025-12-17T05:44:10+0000

Baldur's Gate 3 is incredibly lore-heavy, has active deities as characters with personality (and Evil ones as antagonists with organized Evil followers), has the majority of Drow and Goblins in it as antagonists, has bigotry (especially against Tieflings), colonialism, and slavery as things to fight against, has actual edge, and every other thing certain people have claimed is actually bad and should be removed from The Forgotten Realms.

Turns out fans either like those things (and going by what fans have said about the game they LOVE those parts of it) or don't care as long as the story and gameplay are good.

Scribe · 2025-12-17T06:15:48+0000

Even as one who worships at the altar of grimdark and edge, and feels genres of fantasy peaked at Sword and Sorcery, and that the over sanitized modern D&D is a regression for our society....

We don't need to aspire to hiring pornstars here my man.

Paul Farquhar · 2025-12-17T06:30:30+0000

BG3 has an “18” certificate. Everything WotC puts out in print has to be “PG” (don’t offend the parents).

Horwath · 2025-12-17T08:14:12+0000

Paul Farquhar said:
BG3 has an “18” certificate. Everything WotC puts out in print has to be “PG” (don’t offend the parents).

if PHB is R-rated, would it really drop in sales much?

Zardnaar · 2025-12-17T09:21:01+0000

Horwath said:
if PHB is R-rated, would it really drop in sales much?

Probably yes.

WotC should probably do some mature content. Not phb.

aiouh · 2025-12-17T09:48:12+0000

Mind you this game is sold DRM-free on gog.com so the actual amount of people who played this game that don't have achievement tracking on are probably double.

Paul Farquhar · 2025-12-17T10:36:17+0000

Horwath said:
if PHB is R-rated, would it really drop in sales much?

Yes, and generate negative publicity for toy company Hasbro. The 80s moral panic wasn’t just driven by people who thought the demons were real, it was as much to do with parents who didn’t like their kids looking at pictures of boobies.

The target audience for D&D books is about 12. Which is probably about the age most of us were when we got started.

Horwath · 2025-12-17T12:14:10+0000

Paul Farquhar said:
Yes, and generate negative publicity for toy company Hasbro. The 80s moral panic wasn’t just driven by people who thought the demons were real, it was as much to do with parents who didn’t like their kids looking at pictures of boobies.

The target audience for D&D books is about 12. Which is probably about the age most of us were when we got started.

yeah, but moral panic increased sales, not tanked them.

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