Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General 72 hour Advanced Access to Full Game

Where in the PFH did he specifically confirm that? I don't remember it. It sucks a tiny bit since it'd be at the start of my short week (so I'd have 4 days before going back to work, didn't bother changing my August vacation time), but I'm perfectly fine with playing Remnants 2 a bit longer.

the 'instead' makes it very clear.

I think what Sven is saying there is that originally the game was being released on Aug31st for both PC and PlayStation but now they have changed the dates because they disconnected the PC version from the console versions. The new dates are now August 3rd for PC and September 6 for PlayStation. As for the 72 hour early access to Act 1, that's still included for the Deluxe edition on PlayStation. The question everyone wants answered is if the PC owners of BG3, if we are also getting the completed Act 1 early access just like PlayStation is getting.

Actually he is not clear at all. I interpreted that; and still do; as the game is coming out of Early Access on 3rd August, which is exactly what we already knew. This is further confused by his very next statement about playing all of Baldurs Gate 3 when the early start was meant to be Act 1 only.

No offence ...
But are we seriously using as proof show where the same person told us that we will be able to "play with up to four friends" ... or situation where this same person started warning about spoilers that Astarion is a Vampire, litteraly half minute after they were talking about him being a Vampire Spawn ...
I would dare to say its quite clear that Swen didnt think twice about anything he said ... i presume it was long and exhausting day for him aswell.

Safe bet would be to wait for any official clarification, that we got semi-promised.

Well said. I suspect until they officially clarify anything, it's going to be what someone way upthread said, we'll just find out on the 31st

on the subject of updating misleading info... please for the love of GOD update the forum banner to say 3rd instead 31st

the forum is drowning in threads asking the same questions over and over and it doesn't help

I fail to see how that would help with this problem.

None taken.
You can choose not to take the CEO of Larian at their word if it makes you happy

Ok i was wrong, community update 20 was edited today, it looks like the no 72 hour access is confirmed:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGat...y_update_20_was_edited_regarding_pc_72h/

Since there is no official info out from Larian about the 72 hour early early access on July 31st we just have to wait and see.

Not having the 72 hour early access for chapter 1 will make things easier for them because then they don't have to add code that would prevent players from advancing to chapter 2 if they reach the end of chapter 1 within the period.

Larian is a company listening to their customers so it might be that if they feel quite a few are disappointed we didn't get the 72 early access as we had hoped for they might announce it shortly prior to the release. BG 3 is probably going gold very soon so they could easily do it if they wanted to.

It could also be that they think getting a free upgrade to the digital deluxe version is good enough compensation for buying the game in early access and thus skipped the 72 hour early early access. However, I think quite a few larian fans would have preferred the 72 hour early access for supporting the game for 3 years. Right now a player who
got the game in 2020 will get the same as a person buying the game today. If the free upgrade had already ended then it would have been a different matter.

I would love for nothing more than to play on the July 31st, With that said I'm glad I'm not having to wait for August 31,

"Instead of the 3 days we said initially, you are going to get it on August 3rd."
PFH 4:04:56

Whats unclear?

Read rest of topics and you will find out.
It was stated like million times so far.

I know. “I think” that there is no early access anymore - it would be weird if actual release and Digital Deluxe were so far apart. His statement from PfH raises enough question to warrant wel thought out, pre-written clarification.

There is nothing unclear.

People are just choosing to not believe the CEO when he clearly states, on video, that the 3 day early access was replaced by a 28 day early access.

They also updated the Community update 20 page to remove any text that implied there was still an additional 3 days for PC.

Nothing unclear at all.

Yes, this seems to be the case. I think it was quite clear but people just want to hold on to some sort of hope still.

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I know. I talked to Salo about this at Ghent and she told me she'd been trying but has been facing technical issues with the banner update. She's not forgotten and this will get changed asap.

I think I've already said this, but it may have been in another thread, but from talking to Mollygos at the event, it is correct that 3 August is the release date for the full game for everyone on the PC (with Playstation in September). I assume that anyone purchasing on or after 3 August won't get a free upgrade to the Digital Deluxe edition so will miss out on all those extra goodies unless they paid for them, but would be able to play straight away, though I didn't explicitly ask about that. This is still just hearsay so I'd still recommend waiting for the official announcement that I am assured is coming, if more slowly than planned, but thought it worth sharing anyway.

I also got the impression that Larian are releasing the PC version as soon as possible, so what retaining the 72h early access would have meant wouldn't have been getting the game on 31 July, but rather not being able to play act 2 until 6 August, and if so I'll call that a win. (Plus anyone not getting the PC Digital Deluxe edition not being able to play until 6 August, but I'm not sure if that's even possible, because as far as I know everyone buying the PC version is still getting a free upgrade to Digital Deluxe.)

I see the updated banner on mobile.😊