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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ThayWizGwar@lemmy.world to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

For context, Larian Studio founder Swen Vincke predicted that the game could reach 100,000 peak concurrent users during its debut period, and that was a fairly optimistic prediction. I work in IT, and really feel for those folks. I hope they designed their infrastructure to scale!

And that's only Steam, not including GOG, or the influx of PS5 users next month. Let's take it to 1 million!

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[-] JdW@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good luck with that. I bought it on gog, had to jump through hoops to have it install, only to have the download stall again the next day on a patch. They have to get their act together, I just wanted to play so got a refund and bought it on steam where it downloaded, installed and patched without a hitch...

[-] ThayWizGwar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That makes me sad. But I guess there was a reason I chose to install via Steam on launch day instead of GOG. But as I said, I do prefer the platform. I played all of early access on GOG without a hitch.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Curiosity, why do you prefer GOG? I haven't used it much.

[-] Hairyblue@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I think many like the DRM free games. I have gotten a few very old games (Ultima series, Neverwinter) from them. I like to use Steam over GOG because of the Big Picture Mode and Proton. I even added GOG Neverwinter to my non-Steam games to be able to access it with Big Picture Mode.

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