Larian finally breaks silence, confirms "way over" 10 million people have played Baldur's Gate 3
Feb. 26, 2024“This is a game that went from ~2 mil players to way over 10 in a very short space of time”
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We may never know exactly how many people are playingBaldur’s Gate 3across PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, but thanks to Larian Studios director of publishing Michael Douse, we now know the total player count is well over 10 million.
In a thread of tweets aimed at “a few bad eggs"apparently sending toxic messages and threats to Larianas it gears up forBaldur’s Gate 3 mod support, Douse casually and vaguely reveals: “This is a game that went from ~2 mil players to way over 10 [million] in a very short space of time.”
Westilldon’t know exactly how many copies Baldur’s Gate 3 has sold, but it’s almost certainly more than 10 million. Although local multiplayer allows two people to play at the same time, in all other instances a single player generally equates to a single copy sold. Since Douse says the player count is “way more” than 10 million, you can pretty safely bet more than 10 million copies have been sold, which is astounding for what many once assumed would be a fairly niche release.
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