Baldur's Gate 3 dev clarifies that only PS5 players will get a 3-day head start for pre-ordering, but PC players get a 34-day head start anyway so it's fine
Baldur's Gate 3 is making the rare, bold choice of moving up its release date by a full month to August 3, giving players about five weeks to crank through 100+ hours of D&D roleplaying before Starfield arrives. Larian has now clarified one confusing bit of information around the new release date, which is when players who pre-order the Digital Deluxe Edition will actually be able to get started. That version promised «72-hours Early Access to Act 1,» but it turns out that's only for the PlayStation 5 version of the game, which releases on September 6.
«The PC Digital Deluxe Edition does not include a 72 hour head start, which would have essentially made the game’s release date July 31st,» Larian said in a community update on Wednesday. Larian said that bumping up its release date «came with a few complexities that we didn't manage to communicate very well» and that «a 72 hour head start on PC wouldn't have been plausible.»
Reading between the lines, I suspect Larian is going to be frantically working on Baldur's Gate 3 up to the very last second. Back in February, Larian announced that it would be bringing BG3 out of early access on August 31. Then, just two weeks later, Bethesda dropped the news that Starfield was coming on September 6. That must've been a major «sheeeeeeeeeeit» moment for Larian. If the studio wasn't absolutely nose to the grindstone to make the new August 3 date, the PS5 version probably wouldn't be coming a whole month later.
It may be a bit disappointing not to get that 72 hour head start on PC, but depending on how you look at it, PC players are actually getting a 34 day head start. Or, heck, a three year head start, if you include the early access launch.
Larian has reiterated that if you buy the
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