Baldur’s Gate 3 Players Were Doing So Much Larian Had to Issue an Emergency Hotfix
Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian has issued an emergency hotfix that changes the way personal story databases work because players had maxed them out.
“As it turns out, many of you were doing so much in Baldur’s Gate 3 that some of your personal ‘story’ databases (where your choices and actions are stored) got too big,” Larian explained in a post on the game’s Steam page.
“We now made the size infinite (or at least as infinite as you have storage space), to account for the sheer amount of things you’re all doing on your journeys.”
Baldur’s Gate 3's monstrously large launch was way beyond Larian’s expectations. It’s one of the biggest games on Steam ever, with over 800,000 peak concurrent players. According to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, Baldur’s Gate 3 play accounted for nearly 28% of total player time spent on Steam on August 6, , leading all other titles by far, including Valve’s own Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
From Circana's Player Engagement Tracker - This past Sunday (6 Aug), Baldur's Gate III play accounted for nearly 28% of total player time spent on Steam, leading all other titles by far, including CS:GO at 5%. Bonkers numbers. pic.twitter.com/lY83gu0zTG
Baldur's Gate 3 players, then, are clearly having a hard time tearing themselves away from their monitors as the sheer scope of Larian's sprawling, Dungeons & Dragons-themed role-playing game hits home. So it’s no surprise to learn Baldur’s Gate 3 players maxed out their save file space so soon after launch. Now, at least, you can save away until your own storage space waves the white flag.
“There is no unit of measurement that can accurately measure the time between ‘oh that is hilarious’ and ‘oh f**k’,” Larian director of publishing, Michael Douse, said in
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