Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Starfield is lame - Bg3 is going to win GOTY - Taking bets.

But that 6 million number wasn't "first week" sales. I don't even think starfield has been out for a week. That 6 million number came after like, a day or two.

As for the rest of your post, I mean look. It seems to me like a lot of people are really INVESTED in the idea Starfield must fail. Like, they WANT the outcome to be that it fails, independent of what the actual facts are, and often in spite of not having actually played the game themselves. It honestly seems very strange to me. I DON'T actually see any evidence that Starfield is getting torn to pieces. I think we're probably going to need to wait more than a week from release to let the dust settle and see how it actually does.

I also think you've got an odd idea of what Larian is going to do. BG3 was never a "let's transition to using DnD rules from now on" proposition or a "We're just going to make DnD games from now on" proposition. I fully expect they'll move back to their own custom systems after this. I also think you are giving Larian way too much credit. The beginning of this game is very fun and polished. The end of this game is untested, the combat falls apart, has awful writing, and is buggy in a way that would *never in a thousand years* be forgiven if a larger studio released a game in the same state. Larian did not set some grand example with BG3. It has some very fun highs, but this is the game that actually convinced me to never buy a Larian game on release ever again. They too consistently drop the ball on the second half of their games.