Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General The Cost of Early Access

So, I could make this one long philosophical post about the pros and cons of early access....sorry to disappoint. A much simpler discussion.

How much is early access going to hit my wallet? Any news on that regard.

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Full game price I assume. $60? Just guessing.

Price isn't announced yet, but I'd agree with Wormerine in that it's better to set fair expectations and rather be positively surprised if any lower price is thrown at our wallet 😊

It will be the full price in part because they want to encourage those to buy Early Access because they want to help find bugs and improve gameplay, rather than just playing the game early. There will also be no pre-order bonus or other incentives to buy early, the price on release will be the same as early access so those who want the final finished product should just get that.

Hopefully,. Larian is not Taleworlds

From Steam page.

Larian does have a good reputation here since both DOS and DOS2 were both early access games before coming to full release and they did take customer feedback seriously to make the games better.

I'm guessing $60.

There's a fairly stubborn guy on the Steam forums who keeps posting/repeating ad nauseum that EA should be free anytime EA is mentioned, and arguing that Larian wouldn't charge for it if they didn't need the money.

I tried to suggest he should register an account here (which I stressed was free), and make his case here instead so Larian employees could at least see his feedback, if he feels that strongly about it....but of course his response to that was 'he's not that invested in BG3'.

I'm not sure he'd last that long if he derails every topic where EA is mentioned...

You are right, and my guess is that's more to the point of why he won't really come over here.

Larian at some point really needs to assign a company admin moderator over there by the time EA releases to be honest. It's been fairly ugly at times.

The cost should be half price for EA, due to the fact that there will be no real time combat. ( couldn't help myself)

USD 59.99 per Swen:

https://youtu.be/S5__muccL1c?t=2192

Thanks for the video, It was new to me. Question, Swen made it sound IMO, that the price was just for EA, I got the impression that we will have to buy the game when its released as well? I sure hope not.

No, you're paying for the full game release - in essence you're pre-ordering and then getting to play in the first third or so of the game content early, as they continue to develop new elements and tweak/balance existing ones. Then when full release is ready you'll be patched up to full 1.0.

Thats what I had thought when I first heard about EA. Never purchased a EA game before. Thanks Tyndaleon for the heads up.

There are usually risks involved, but in this case it´s a safe bet they´ré going to make the game.

take my money.....

Still, full price for EA. Full price is what we pay for a full game. I will buy EA, don't get me wrong, but still, every early access I've bought has had a lowered price tag because the game was still in development and not yet fully released.
If this game was going to release fully in like 2-6 months, I would not say anything on the price, but it may be years before full release for all I know. Feel like the price may be a tad high.

Price being the same all the time at least people don't feel forced to "pre order" it before it comes out of early access.