Microsoft completely misjudged Baldur’s Gate 3 - eviltoast
  • Blizzard@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 as well as Divinity: Original Sin 2 were all huge successes and Baldur’s Gate 3 was in early access for 3 years to either test it or read testers opinions. So you’ve got a very successful IP using a renown system, a devoted studio known for quality games with proper resources and their own, capable and proven game engine, years of polishing the game and adhering to fans feedback. If you “completely understand why it wasn’t on the radar” then… I guess you could get a job at Microsoft.

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      1 year ago

      You’re missing the scale.

      Everyone knew BG3 would “a success,” but it hasn’t just been a success, it’s been a nuclear bomb of a success.

      Optimistically, people were expecting to get around 1 million in sales. Total. THAT would have been a GREAT SUCCESS. Today I think it has around 10 million on Steam alone, 10x the “hope we get there” number.

      Imagine taking a job and hoping for a $10,000 bonus for good performance, and then your boss drops $100,000 on your desk. It’s that level of joyful shock.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty revisionist of you. No one saw the success that Baldurs Gate 3 had. They literally moved up their release date to avoid it getting drowned out.

      The head of Larian has even said that they did not anticipate this many sales.

      Was this going to be a good game? Yes most people could see that.

      Would it reach a mainstream pocket and sell as well as it did? Most people did not predict that.

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      1 year ago

      I guess the head of Larian Studios needs to resign and get a job at Microsoft, because he said essentially that.

    • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      DOS2 has sold 5M copies over the life of it. BG3 has sold nearly 10M in the first month on steam alone. Probably close to 30M over the life of the game.

      It’s several orders of magnitude more successful and easily the most successful CRPG ever. You all really are missing the scale.