Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Perhaps Larian is the wrong studio

It just seems super unlikely to me that a game like Dragon Age Origins which was an AAA game with a huge budget sold less than DOS2 which was a very successful but niche game nonetheless. perhaps I'm wrong but who knows. and what the hell is 2-5 I dunno.

I think DA: O could have even reached 10 million, only problem is that 11 years have passed since the premiere.

I would also assume that if you want to check how many copies dao sold you should check Origin and not steam.

Feels like no one reading me this last days :'(

Yeah, I already confirmed where it was from. And yeah, that range is absurdly broad because SteamSpy is not as reliable as it used to be before most Steam profiles became private by default (since scanning those is what it uses to gather data).
While once it used to have a margin of accuracy of 5% that became more and more fine tuned for big sellers, now that's not case anymore.
Still, it can still offer some vaguely reliable data as a broad reference. In the specific case we know that at very least it sold two million copies and that they are probably even more (but it's pointless to attempt a guess without confirmations from Larian, which as a private company they have no obligation to offer).

Anyway, back to the point of what we can safely deduce from this: at very least, even taking the worst case scenario into consideration, one where we are imagining that sales topped at 2 million on Steam and amount to virtually nothing on other stores and platforms, we can say that DOS 2 can easily match and probably surpass sales of Dragon Age Origins on PC (which were not the majority). And possibly compete with its sales combined on all platforms and surpass them, too.


Over the years it was also given for free to lure people on Origin and sold for five bucks countless times. And I still wouldn't bet in a similar number or Bioware would scream that from the rooftop at full lungs every time they mention the franchise.

This is how I see it too. There are multiple factors that go into a person finding a game to be something they like or dislike. In the case of D:OS2, it could be TB combat. But it could just as easily also be co-op play, DM mode, availability on consoles, being able to blow up the whole world with oil barrels, etc. Who knows? Saying people loved D:OS2 (only) because of TB, and saying people disliked PoE2 (only) because of RTwP, is completely unsubstantiated b.s. No data analyst worth a damn would ever agree with such a shallow and biased inference.

This seems to be the only really relevant post in the last few pages, and spot on in my opinion.

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