Even Baldur’s Gate 3’s developers are surprised by how many people are playing the game

Baldur’s Gate 3 arrived on Aug. 3 to whisk players off on a custom RPG adventure of their own design, and although the devs had decently high hopes for the game, it seems they shot way too low in their expectations to the point that even they are amazed at how many players are delving into the game. Just one day after launch, Baldur’s Gate 3 has over 550,000 concurrent players on Steam.

Swen Vincke, the CEO of Larian Studios, only expected around a maximum of 100,000 players, so the half-million players in the game right now well exceeded the devs’ highest expectations. Vincke joked on Twitter that he may need to “stay away from the IT team for a while” since the devs told them the peak number of players they could likely expect to see would likely be around 100,000, not anywhere close to the current numbers.

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