At minimum, this game has already surpassed DOS2. VGI has it at 7.5M units on Steam. Steamspy has it between 20M-50M, which is a bit harder to believe, but not impossible. We should expect a few more days of BG3 dominating the games media cycle before it is contested by Starfield. To BG3's credit, it weathered the Armored Core threat brilliantly and has once again risen to the top of the global charts over 3 weeks after release. Based on current reviews, scores, and sales, if Starfield stumbles, BG3 could walk away from 2023 as game of the year.
This is a good game, perhaps a straight up GOAT'd game even, but people are allowed to criticize its shortcomings without being dismissed as haters or their analyses discarded for being subjective, as if loving this game uncritically is somehow the more objective viewpoint. This forum is at its best when we are collectively identifying things this game does right and ways and places in which this game could do better.
