Originally Posted by Tuco
Originally Posted by VincentNZ
Subsequent updates will garner diminishing attention in playtime and sales, people that did not like it enough will likely drop out and not return, even after EA. You could say it is a success in sales right now, but not a successful game. Depending on how the EA goes it might also increase or hur the company's reputation for potential DLCs or the next game.

DOS 2 saw the overwhelming majority of its sales after the year-long EA concluded and the game actually released.

I see absolutely no reason to expect something particularly different here. Except on a much bigger scale, given that it's already over a million now, which is a number DOS 2 couldn't even dream back then.

I don't expect this trend to be quite as pronounced for BG3 given Larian made their name for real with DOS2 and benefit from that going into BG3. The fact this game is their, I believe, first non-kickstarter while also still being independent of any publisher says something about how things has changed. Turn-based RPG is relatively niche, so the market will be more quickly saturated and I don't foresee the exponential growth you kind of indicate here as very likely at all.