Baldur's Gate 3 Has Over Ten Million Players

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Baldur's Gate 3 is a pretty big deal. The series had a dedicated following before the third game's full launch last year, but this ballooned into something that nobody saw coming, scooping up awards and dominating the conversation for months. Now, we know that this has translated into sales, as Larian reveals that the game has more than ten million players.

This comes from Larian's head of publishing, Michael Douse, who revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 rapidly went from having two million players to more than ten million in a short space of time. This is following Baldur's Gate 3's launch on all of its intended platforms, finally making its way to Xbox at the end of 2023.

This doesn't tell us what Baldur's Gate 3's specific sales figures are, and we don't know what kind of projects Larian was working with ahead of its launch. However, by any metric, this is more than likely to be a great success.

Unfortunately, Douse's comments come as he has to tell fans to stop harassing Baldur's Gate 3 devs. In the Twitter thread, Douse says that a "few bad eggs" in the fanbase have started threatening developers over the game's lack of mod support, a feature that it's working on for all platforms. Before mods are officially supported by Larian, patches and hotfixes will break modded playthroughs, at least until mod authors have made updates. While frustrating, this is the risk that you take when you download mods, particularly for a game that's still being supported by the devs.

Baldur's Gate 3 is already one of the most modded games on Nexus Mods , so it's not surprising that Larian is working on officially supporting these fan creations.

"This is a game that went from two million players to way over ten in a very short space of time, so it's natural the conversation becomes muddier and more complex," says Douse, speaking about the toxicity in the playerbase after the latest patch and hotfix. "But in order to maintain the same level of dialogue, we need people to understand that