Larian Studios has announced that it's found a way to bring Baldur’s Gate 3 to Xbox Series X|S players and that the game will still be able to make it onto the platform this year.
Baldur's Gate 3 smashes 500,000 concurrent users on Steam
04.08.2023 - 17:51 / pcgamer.com / Swen Vincke
I knew Baldur's Gate 3 was going to be big, but I didn't think it was going to be this big: In its second day of release, Larian's epic D&D RPG has surpassed 500,000 concurrent players on Steam.
That's not enough to put it atop the Steam chart, which is immutably dominated by Counter-Strike: Global offensive, a game that routinely has well over 1 million people playing at any given time. But it does put it within spitting distance of the perennial runner-up, Dota 2, and well past other heavyweights like PUBG, Apex Legends, Naraka: Bladepoint, and Grand Theft Auto 5.
Notably, Baldur's Gate 3 is the only one among the top five that isn't a multiplayer game, and the only one that isn't free to play. Even more remarkable is that it is not, by conventional definitions, a mainstream sort of game. The D&D name carries weight, yes, but isometric party-based RPGs aren't the sort of videogame that people are typically lining up to play.
The same goes for Larian itself: The studio has been a known quantity among RPG fans for many years, but not a particularly well-known presence beyond that.
Baldur's Gate 3 came close to breaking the 500,000 mark yesterday, when it first launched, but it couldn't quite crack the ceiling—possibly in part because it's a 122GB download, and there was no preload period available. Fortunately the Steam servers held up under the strain, but for some people it meant that launch day was download day, not play day. As such, it was fair to think that the wheels wouldn't really get rolling until the day after—that is, today—and that's how it seems to have gone.
Larian boss Swen Vincke said on Twitter earlier today, before Baldur's Gate 3 surpassed 500,000 concurrents, that the game's massive success "brought a tear to many eyes." But as the number continued to climb, he also expressed just a wee little bit of growing nervousness about the whole thing.
Also bear in mind that this is just for Steam: Baldur's Gate 3 is also available on GOG. We don't have access to player numbers on that storefront, but whatever it is, it pushes the total even higher. That's a whole lotta people playing digital D&D right now.
The first Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix is expected to be out later today. We'll let you know when it arrives, and what it does.
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