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Baldur's Gate 3 Players Spent 10 Million Hours in Game Opening Weekend, And 88 Years in Character Cr

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edited August 2023 in News & Features Discussion

imageBaldur's Gate 3 Players Spent 10 Million Hours in Game Opening Weekend, And 88 Years in Character Creation | MMORPG.com

A new community update for Baldur's Gate 3 focuses on the huge opening weekend with a slew of stats from PC launch weekend. Players spent 1,225 years in game, 88 years in character creation, pet the dog, and 100k got rejected by Astatian.

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  • RaagnarzRaagnarz Member RarePosts: 647
    It is truly an amazing game. The scope of it is insane. And i definitely spent my fair share of time in character creators...more than I've spent playing the game actual campaign.
    Sovrath
  • deceasedecease Member UncommonPosts: 51
    10 million hours is... about 19 year? i guess most people are having hard time creating character =P
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427
    edited August 2023
    "And 88 Years in Character Creation"

    Probably getting lost while trying to work out CC from what posters have been saying. :)
    Sovrath
  • AntariousAntarious Member UncommonPosts: 2,846

    decease said:

    10 million hours is... about 19 year? i guess most people are having hard time creating character =P



    Maybe this is sarcasm... if not.. maybe check the math again.
  • DhampirDhampir Member UncommonPosts: 188
    Seems like a great game...will be getting this around the holidays...just to busy now.
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  • AndemnonAndemnon Member UncommonPosts: 179
    Still have the original Baldurs Gate games, i just wish that Larian hadn't used 5E, which is an abomination, for me last good was probably around 3.5e though for our current group we are still using 2nd Edition. Personal preferences make all the difference in the world. I just wish they  hadn't used 5E.
  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,936
    Andemnon said:
    Still have the original Baldurs Gate games, i just wish that Larian hadn't used 5E, which is an abomination, for me last good was probably around 3.5e though for our current group we are still using 2nd Edition. Personal preferences make all the difference in the world. I just wish they  hadn't used 5E.

    If 5e is the latest iteration it might also have to do with Wizards of the Coast wanting it. Why would they want a game pushing an old rule set when they want people getting excited about their current rule set?


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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427
    Sovrath said:
    Andemnon said:
    Still have the original Baldurs Gate games, i just wish that Larian hadn't used 5E, which is an abomination, for me last good was probably around 3.5e though for our current group we are still using 2nd Edition. Personal preferences make all the difference in the world. I just wish they  hadn't used 5E.

    If 5e is the latest iteration it might also have to do with Wizards of the Coast wanting it. Why would they want a game pushing an old rule set when they want people getting excited about their current rule set?
    There is a problem with coming out with one edition after another of the same rules set, players get a favourite and after that just don't care what comes out next. Over the years DnD has tried to take on various elements of other systems with varying degrees of success. So it is no wonder players eventually ask "is this still DnD"?
  • GorweGorwe Member Posts: 1,609

    Dhampir said:

    Seems like a great game...will be getting this around the holidays...just to busy now.



    Agreed. There is just one miscategorization. I would definitely put BG3 more on the side of D:OS3 than of BG3. But this is nitpicking and based upon criteria used.
  • ValdemarJValdemarJ Member RarePosts: 1,419
    Andemnon said:
    Still have the original Baldurs Gate games, i just wish that Larian hadn't used 5E, which is an abomination, for me last good was probably around 3.5e though for our current group we are still using 2nd Edition. Personal preferences make all the difference in the world. I just wish they  hadn't used 5E.

    Every edition since 2nd ed has fixed some issues while breaking some others and introducing their own set of problems. I think the only reason 2nd Ed didn't feel like it broke stuff is because 1s Ed wasn't fleshed out enough to do so and it filled out so much that was missing. For me, 2nd Edition is really 1st Edition in release form. 1st Edition is more like "early access".

    I was reading a reddit thread last night about how monks have basically been broken since 1st Edition and 4th Ed was the only rule set they felt right. That didn't make up for all the other stuff that was wrong. It was interesting seeing the list of puzzling design decisions going all the way back to the early 80s.

    5th Edition isn't an abomination to me, but there are things that are so messed up. Critical Rolls, spellcasters being stupidly OP without many of the tradeoffs they used to carry, and the trashing of the monster manual are probably 3 of the biggest in my opinion.
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  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,936
    Scot said:
    Sovrath said:
    Andemnon said:
    Still have the original Baldurs Gate games, i just wish that Larian hadn't used 5E, which is an abomination, for me last good was probably around 3.5e though for our current group we are still using 2nd Edition. Personal preferences make all the difference in the world. I just wish they  hadn't used 5E.

    If 5e is the latest iteration it might also have to do with Wizards of the Coast wanting it. Why would they want a game pushing an old rule set when they want people getting excited about their current rule set?
    There is a problem with coming out with one edition after another of the same rules set, players get a favourite and after that just don't care what comes out next. Over the years DnD has tried to take on various elements of other systems with varying degrees of success. So it is no wonder players eventually ask "is this still DnD"?

    Well, like me, I'm used to 3.5 so if I were to play dungeons and dragons tabletop that's the source I would pull from. Keeping in mind that I would gut the things I don't like.

    But you're right, players will get a favorite. However, given that they probably want to make money off their current work, it makes sense they'd seek developers/creators who are willing to use that current work.

    For someone like me I guess it doesn't matter as I'm not a stickler for rules. But "yeah," for those who love rules and figuring out what can and can't be done within those rules, of course they might be disappointed.


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  • GorweGorwe Member Posts: 1,609
    edited August 2023
    All I care about is that the game is fun and that as many as possible builds are viable. Aka, let's not get mired in overbuffed stats like Owlcatfinders. That just crushes the build viability and with it, the soul of the game.
  • ArglebargleArglebargle Member EpicPosts: 3,481
    DnD rules are always murky and haphazard, burdened down with a thousand legacy bits that interfere with the smooth play of the rules. It's a Frankenstein put together out of parts without regard for their fit.

    I'll play DnD based games if they are otherwise good, but the design is ossified.  Jumped ship in preferences as soon as the second wave of RP systems hit the tabletop.

    I actually liked the 4th edition set, because it was so much better organized than anything DnD before.  But it was less an RPG set than a miniatures rule set.  I suspect that WotC wanted in on that gloriously overpriced official miniatures market.



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  • NeoyoshiNeoyoshi Member RarePosts: 1,489
    edited August 2023
    Those stats make my heart sing.  *Pulls out lute*


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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427
    Neoyoshi said:
    Those stats make my heart sing.  *Pulls out lute*


    Just as long as you can't play a Frog Bard in BG3 I am alright with this. :)
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  • JakobmillerJakobmiller Member RarePosts: 694
    edited August 2023
    Scot said:
    Neoyoshi said:
    Those stats make my heart sing.  *Pulls out lute*


    Just as long as you can't play a Frog Bard in BG3 I am alright with this. :)

    I've made a character just for you <3 "Kill me with this HTML editor..."

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