Baldur’s Gate 3 players have spent more time playing than human civilisation has existed
Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty popular, it turns out. So popular that more collective human time has been spent chatting up hot vampires, shagging bears and being turned into sentient cheese than human civilisation has existed for.
Baldur’s Gate 3 makers Larian dropped a bag of holding’s worth of stats in the wake of the Dungeons & Dragons CRPG’s latest - and biggest - patch arriving last week, just after the game marked its four-month anniversary on PC.
Among the fairly staggering highlights is the news that players have racked up over 452.5 million hours - or 51,662 years - worth of playtime together. By my maths (and some help from the University of Southampton), that would take us back to around the time that Homo sapiens - in other words, modern humans - started to settle around western Europe, the earliest use of string (and a needle) and the invention of fire-lighting using flint.
It’s also a good few millennia before dogs were domesticated (23,000 BC) and human civilisation as a whole began to emerge from the prehistoric era around 10,000 BC. In other words, a while.
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