Larian finally breaks silence, confirms "way over" 10 million people have played Baldur's Gate 3

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We may never know exactly how many people are playing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 across PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, but thanks to Larian Studi💯os director of publishing Michael Douse, we now know the total player ♋count is well over 10 million.

Baldur's Gate 3 has been topping charts since its full release back in August, but its total player count across all platforms has remained, and will likely continue to remain, a mystery. That said, we now have our clearest indication yet of just how many people have played our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:2023 GOTY so far, with Douse recen♔tly confirming that number to be at least 10 million.

In a thread of tweets aimed at "a few bad eggs" appar💞ently sending toxic messages and threats to Larian as it gears up for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur'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."

Although there are a number of ways to get an idea of Baldur's Gate 3's success, none of them paint a comprehensive picture. For example, we can use to see its peak concurrent player count - that is, the most people playing at a single instance - is a staggering 875,000, placing it on the platform's top 10 most-played games ever. We also know it was Steam's best-sel꧋ling and most-played game of 2023, but again, that doesn't factor in PlayStation and ꦚXbox.

We still don'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, y🐻ou can prett𒅌y safely bet more than 10 million copies have been sold, which is astounding for what many once assumed would be a fairly niche release.

Even Baldur's Gate 3 developers are still floored by the RPG's sustained popularity: "644,205 average daily players in the last 7 days is still so insane to me this far from launch."

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