Skyrim is sitting at 42 million sold. BG3 won't come anywhere near that. I am skeptical it can reach the more than 10 million in sales for DA:I.
Don't compare an open world, easy to play hack & slash with this linear and harder than chess DnD, where I need to spend more time thinking than moving my characters.
A Skyrim is easy to sell, and if this BG3 wants to compete, needs a very clear user interface, explaining everything at each step or at least have it shown in log and tooltips, because I still can't understand what is happening and why, it's just not explained at all. Why I missed that attack? Log just says I used a skill, no damage, no calculation was made. Why? Because the enemy character WAS highlighted and I still clicked next to it, because the 3D model is so awesome and the cursor just doesn't show when is in the right spot. Or just says "you can't move there" when I'm right next to an enemy, clear terrain between us, have enough movement left, the enemy is right next to me already (almost), but still when I click on the skill says "too far", "can't reach"... so can't move closer and can't reach, because reasons. So I give up on hitting that with melee and hit something else with an arrow instead. These just don't make sense, should show somewhere the distance between my character and my target, and the reason why I can't move closer, if I'm still "too far". Then the skill descriptions need to show that skill will last how many turns and so on, because this would be a very complicated game even if everything would be explained, and just frustrating if it's not explained or shown.
These kind of games really need more sales, not just 1 million, that's nothing.
But in order to do achieve that, they need to be accessible to those new to these kind of games. Not by dumbing down the features, but by being transparent about what is happening and why, so everyone can learn it. So the reviews won't scare away new players with phrases like "if you aren't an expert at DnD rules or whatever 5e and so on, stay away from this".
