D&D General Baldur's Gate 3 will now be releasing August 3rd on PC and September 6th on PS5, increased level cap, race & class details and more

[Henadic Theologian]

Baldur's Gate 3 Is The Best-Selling Pre-Order On PlayStation Right Now

Baldur's Gate 3 has become the best-selling pre-order on PSN after seeing great success with the PC release.

exputer.com

BG3 is now the best selling PS5 preorder, best selling on steam and on GOG.

Pre full release Steam Spy had BG3 at 2 million to 5 million range (turned out to be right, Swen said it was 2.5 million), it now has BG3 at 10 million to 20 million copies sold. 15 million copies is billion dollars in sales territory. That 10 to 20 million is only for steam, it doesn't count GOG or PS5. Over 800,000+ concurrent players on steam along, it's just a hair away from beating Harry Potter Legacy which has made well over a billion dollars.

 

[Scribe]

I'm still slowly getting through the first section, just hit level 5.

If Wizards cannot capitalize on this, I'll be floored.

I think it should be a milestone, considering the already unprecidented success of 5e, its just a shame this didnt come out earlier, to more deeply influence 6e or whatever people are calling it.

I do still have my issues with the game, but I'm invested in FR damnit, and have been for too long to just give it up.

I'll save everyone the negative parts of my review till I'm done the game.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I will just mention that WotC already has a BG3 prequel adventure: Baldur's Gate: Decent to Avernus. BG3 regularly references events in that adventure.

The sensible thing to do would be to dust it off and re-release it as a "special edition" with a new cover.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Larian's boss worried Baldur's Gate 3 had peaked in early access, so its massive 800K concurrent player launch was 'way, way beyond' expectations

While there are "a lot of smiling faces" around the office, Larian's now focused on bug fixes and finishing the PS5 release.

www.pcgamer.com

Apparently BG3 is doing way better then Larian expected.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I'm still slowly getting through the first section, just hit level 5.

If Wizards cannot capitalize on this, I'll be floored.

I think it should be a milestone, considering the already unprecidented success of 5e, its just a shame this didnt come out earlier, to more deeply influence 6e or whatever people are calling it.

I do still have my issues with the game, but I'm invested in FR damnit, and have been for too long to just give it up.

I'll save everyone the negative parts of my review till I'm done the game.

IMHO one of the best ways to capitalize on this is a proper FRCG book for 5.5e.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The influx of new people with full released crashed Larian Studios own forums, although I think they are back up now. Thankfully it was only the forums that has crashed.

 

[KEV777]

I was reading the discussion forums on steam and people are really upset and confused about the lack of racial modifiers and gender selection not updating the body type.

 

[Reynard]

I will just mention that WotC already has a BG3 prequel adventure: Baldur's Gate: Decent to Avernus. BG3 regularly references events in that adventure.

The sensible thing to do would be to dust it off and re-release it as a "special edition" with a new cover.

I don't see how re-releasing an adventure that isn't a tabletop adaptation of BG3 would fulfill the need for a tabletop adaptation of BG3.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don't see how re-releasing an adventure that isn't a tabletop adaptation of BG3 would fulfill the need for a tabletop adaptation of BG3.

It provides a way to get computer game players who are not tabletop gamers to buy a D&D book. "You want to know what happened leading up to your favourite computer game? Buy this book."

 

[Demetrios1453]

I don't see how re-releasing an adventure that isn't a tabletop adaptation of BG3 would fulfill the need for a tabletop adaptation of BG3.

The events in it are referred to quite a bit in the game and indeed are one of the main driving forces of what's happening (dealing with the tiefling refugees from Elturel).