Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 hits new player-count record as community rallies for Steam history Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 players are mobilizing to push the game further up Steam\u2019s concurrent player chart. This weekend they broke their previous record by more than 60,000. We\u2019ve talked at length about Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s stellar launch shattering records and developer expectations. Even review bombing hasn\u2019t been enough to slow the game\u2019s momentum. Now almost two weeks after its launch, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s player count is actually growing. It started with a push from the game\u2019s community to break 1 million concurrent players after the game took 9th place in Steam\u2019s top 10 concurrent players of all time chart. While Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 hasn\u2019t cracked the million mark yet, it broke its previous record of 814,666 this weekend. The game\u2019s peak player count currently sits at 875,343 and players won\u2019t rest until it moves up the ranks. While Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 still hasn\u2019t shifted from 9th place on the chart, it\u2019s now less than 4,000 concurrent players away from beating out Hogwarts Legacy for 8th. In a Reddit post celebrating the initial breaking of the record, players spurned each other on for another attempt. \u201cWe\u2019re almost beating Hogwarts, come on!\u201d one user said. \u201cElden Ring next! Let\u2019s go!\u201d another replied. Players in the thread praised Larian for their efforts with Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 saying that the game\u2019s reception is \u201cwell deserved\u201d. The magnitude of the rising player count was not lost on those in the Subreddit. \u201cThat a D&D game nipped at the heels of a Harry Potter game, one of the biggest franchises in the past two decades is an insane achievement on its own,\u201d a user explained. Many players are calling Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 their own personal Game of the Year. 2023 still has a stacked release schedule with triple-A titles like Starfield, Armored Core 6, and Spider-Man 2 yet to come. Still, the success of Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 and the overwhelmingly positive reception by players and press alike make it a genuine contender that will be tough to beat. The push by the game\u2019s community for 1 million concurrent players might just seal the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 hits new player-count record as community rallies for Steam history Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3 players are mobilizing to push the game further up Steam\u2019s concurrent player chart. This weekend they broke their previous record by more than 60,000. We\u2019ve talked at length about Baldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s stellar launch shattering records and developer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}