Ok, so going by the metrics in the graph here it seems to indicate more people were and are playing BG3, even higher than AAA studios on release. How is that not "successful"?
And as a note, BG3 has half the budget of Starfield and again by the graph above, more than 4 times the players at launch.
Not every piece of media is going to be the Mona Lisa or Original Star Wars, but in this case a relatively small studio on a small budget outperformed the AAA studios in this graph. I don't know in what universe that's a failure.
Yeah I'm technically agreeing with you, however I question where people will be even playing this game still by the end of the year which is my main point. For instance even Divinity Original Sin 2 by comparison I fancy having a playthrough of because there's still options I haven't tried out like races and such as that's a genuinely good game. Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't really have that level of replayability, that's the word I'm thinking of, replayability.
I mean I finally managed to ahem, 'acquire' a copy of the original Rome Total War, which I know is going to play so much better than the shitty enhanced version. You don't exactly see people clamouring for another playthrough of BG3 even from the people who actually liked it. Not to mention that Larian Studios are still shamelessly bug fixing.
Ok, so going by the metrics in the graph here it seems to indicate more people were and are playing BG3, even higher than AAA studios on release. How is that not "successful"?
And as a note, BG3 has half the budget of Starfield and again by the graph above, more than 4 times the players at launch.
Not every piece of media is going to be the Mona Lisa or Original Star Wars, but in this case a relatively small studio on a small budget outperformed the AAA studios in this graph. I don't know in what universe that's a failure.
Yeah I'm technically agreeing with you, however I question where people will be even playing this game still by the end of the year which is my main point. For instance even Divinity Original Sin 2 by comparison I fancy having a playthrough of because there's still options I haven't tried out like races and such as that's a genuinely good game. Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't really have that level of replayability, that's the word I'm thinking of, replayability.
I mean I finally managed to ahem, 'acquire' a copy of the original Rome Total War, which I know is going to play so much better than the shitty enhanced version. You don't exactly see people clamouring for another playthrough of BG3 even from the people who actually liked it. Not to mention that Larian Studios are still shamelessly bug fixing.