Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General So how many copies have been sold as of today

Nice, I didnt know the stats but it makes sense. I bet now half of the fanboys here are calling you the troll and those stats fake.



Wdym grown old tragically? Are you yet another Zoomer who dont comprehend cultic old games? Its been 20 years mate, show a game that has aged better in all those years. lol

You already got the best answer currently available from the first replies, you are just purposefully choosing to ignore it for some ungodly reason.

The game already sold more than a million copies on Steam alone in this first month (which is honestly insane for an early access single player RPG).
How much more exactly, no one but Larian can tell yet.
And being Larian a private company they are under no obligation to tell anyone numbers, if they don't want to.

He's objectively and conveniently ignoring publicly available data that contradicts his narrative.

From the very page he linked himself:



So let me stress the point: Baldur's Gate II Shadow of Amn sold "over two million so far", where "so far" in context (and even assuming no update since it was wrote) means at least 2008, when that summary was published on Bioware's website.

Meanwhile these are sales data for DOS2 on Steamspy:

Which means that it should be anywhere between 2,000,000 and 5,000,000 copies (probably somewhere around 3 million) and we know from the horse's mouth that it was already above a million by November 2017, six weeks after launch.
BG2 was, according to all the source already posted here including Bioware's official site, at 1,5 millions almost two years after launch (se my previous post) and "above 2 millions" seven years later, in 2008, according to Bioware' self reported data.

This means that his claim that "BG2 sold in its first year more than DOS 2 sold in its first year" is complete bullshit. Even taking the worst possible data projection and most conservative numbers about DOS 2, they were at worst on even ground.

Please note that no part of this is meant as a judgement on the quality of either title.
The problem is just that people should not make up convenient shit and then get aggressive when proven wrong.

Well PoE sold 700k copies in the first year, as I stated. That is nothing to sneeze at, even in these times. PoE was named the spiritual successor of BG2, that surely drew some numbers. BG3 however is THE successor to THE RPG of that decade, by name. To me that concludes that the success of this game is also to a large part due to it's name. Take me as anecdotal evidence at least, I solely bought this game, because of the name and I am mildly disappointed with the product as of now. Had it been named, at this time more accurately, A Forgotten Realms RPG, or Divinity in Fâerun I would have been only mildly interested a couple of months from now. These names, however, do not generate the same hype and attention, hence they named it BG3.

Also, I would dare say that, in these days, the number of sales is less important, in terms of success, but the profit you generate. PoE was successful, because it had a kickstarter and sold reasonably well. And I am not leaning myself out of the window, when I say that this is a core reason why this game is in EA, too. To generate a lot of money up front, then pick up the rest with the full-release. So a year on the market, likely without any form of sale. So they still pick people up along the way, even at a time when other games have been through multiple sales with 33-75% off.