Baldur's Gate 3 - Release Time Unlock
 

PC Gamer has reported on when you can expect Baldur's Gate 3 to unlock.

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All on board for the hype train ;)

Nice for you to list the exact time at which I'll vanish until the game's actual release. I'll miss you too. :(

Hype train bitch please. I'm with Nereida.:p

I don't want to see spoilers for the next 1-2 years. I'll still post the news but I wont watch the countless videos bound to be released. I'm grateful to all the bug testers.

I just recently found out it will be in early access for a year…(*groan)…not gonna buy it until its a finished product. And yea, I was very excited and really liked what I was seeing, but this early access news was a punch to the gut.

Cool,My job got pushed back. I’ll be playing around 12:30.

Looks like I don't need to worry about replaying BG 1&2 anytime soon.

I promise that I won't spoil anything but I will let you know if the game is any good ;)

Can't let anyone know if the game is good until the game is the game, which it won't be for some time.

I'm a bit surprised at the EA's being already full price, that's a bold and not very friendly move.

I was initially planning on getting really involved in testing and reporting bugs, but in those conditions I'll probably be more casual about it, and wait until it's finished to really play and enjoy the full experience.

An early access or beta/… experience is interesting, just different, and more time-consumming. And once it's finished, I doubt I'd replay the game once again after so much time already spent on it.

Also just for the principle, I'm not sure I want to encourage that type of strategy.

Still excited about it, though :p Let's just be curious and casual, and switch to Solasta when it's EA a few days later.

I'm fine with early access being priced as full release, since that way you'll probably going to get people who actually want to try out stuff and help devs instead of it being just a discount which people would buy and not play it until it's released. At least I think that's the reason for it :D

I think the reason is mostly that Larian knows they don't need to lock in preorders for such a hype product, it'll sell on its own. Also the production cost of the game is probably sky high and they want to get as much revenue as possible.

Same as CP2077 for example, people have been paying full release price since over a year ago, no discounts as far as I'm aware, because it's a big IP that will sell well, and because they need to cover production costs and they have estimated that they won't lose any substantial sales by not giving a preorder discount. Only in that case there wasn't even EA, you'll just play it whenever they're done delaying it.

Those are definitely good points, from both of you.

Its the usual steam release hour; anyway wont buy it now, never buy early access, but ill try it a bit.

The chance I won't buy this is 0%.
The chance I'll actually play it in EA is 0%.
But the chance that there will be a discount somewhen is >0%.
So it wouldn't make sense to buy it now.
Hm… unless… I could just try the character generation in EA.

Darn!

You know whats funny years ago developers actually hired, and paid gamers to test out games. Basically QA Testers. I did it for a summer job to make some cash.

Now they found a way to make gamers pay for that privilege not them.:p

Is it confirmed that it will be in EA for a year?

Not a hard confirmation, but Swen has said repeatedly that it will be a long road to 1.0. It could be anything between 6 months and 3 years, I think it's optimistic to expect the actual release before 2021 Christmas though.

Buying a game in EA in nothing like beta testing. ( unless you want it to be.)

My nephew is a beta tester. They pay him peanuts to play the same areas over and over and trying to break stuff. It’s nothing like actually playing a game.

I’m buying EA because it’s a game I’m buying anyway and I want to try out builds and see how game mechanics work and basically just try it out. If it’s bug ridden or becomes a chore to play I’ll shelve it and wait for it to be in a better state. I’m guessing most people will approach it this way.

I think the whole “paying to be a beta tester gets overblown. You only have to beta test if you want to. I played Blackguards EA and never ran in to a bug. Had to play it in episodes but it was bug free and quite enjoyable. Played through it twice.

You will have some that will actually beta test it and get as involved as they can in the development but they’ll do it because they enjoy that type of thing.

I think the bigger problem is you will have others that will buy it expecting a polished product and they will bitch about it on the internet and less informed people may believe them.

Heh, it's just like I used to hate Steam and think it to be the cancer of gaming. While my opinion hasn't necessarily changed a lot, my Steam library sits at 701 games, and I've come to see ho convenient is to have all games nicely sorted in a single library, and all saves preserved even when I uninstall the game or format my computer, and even your friend list to join games with at a single click distance. Now you can even share your library with friends and family.

In the end, new things will appear, some will resist change as certain liberties are taken from us, but it'll become the norm and we'll have to accept it.

Damn true and I say this from over thirty years of gaming experience. I've seen so much change and your right some resist but most adapt, and it becomes the norm.

That old slogan talk with your wallet is meaningless when the majority doesn't care.:(

Why play this in early access?

Here is why:

1. I am extremely hyped for this game. It is the first proper D&D game in ages (since NWN2 I guess).

2. Larian seems to be doing so many things right for this game: it has the cinematics of the Dragon Age franchise, with the engine of D:OS II, and a proper turn-based D&D system!

3. I want to participate. Give feedback. "Have my voice heard" (if there is such a thing).

4. Given the recent experience of PF:K I only have good expectations of future PnP adaptations to cRPGs.

I get all that, but I don't want to ruin the game when it finally releases the full version….anyone know when that will be?

I would guess 2022 and I don't count myself a pessimist. It's a long time to wait when you know that you can try it already now :P

At least for me the BG games have gotten better the more times I have played them through. I am not concerned of spoling the final game by trying now and giving it a couple years break. It appears that Larian is serious offering us also other content than bugs for this "early access". I'll probably wait a week so that the worst bugs have been fixed before I'll give it a go.

It's an over-hyped game. Basically they need there crack-fix now not latter. I'll be busy playing a fully released game called Cyberpunk 2077 next month. My GOTY for 2020.
Here's your official answer.

Cool…I legit have to much to play right now….started wasteland 3 yesterday and then I have more games coming…

True a lot of good RPGs & Non-RPGs getting released in the next year.:nod:

Please create an impressions thread, @rune_74! I'm playing a party-based game right now and don't hate it, so I may grab another.

Plenty of impressions have been shared already on various news-bits.:p

Wew 82 gb with 60 gb download size

Original Sin 2 was 60GB and BG III is a bigger game. The reports about it taking 150+GB might come true after they finish Early Access. Glad I still have a few older 4TB HDs.

As SSD drives over 2 TB are very expensive so I only have one right now.

Well, the Ars Technica review is… pretty unimpressed (and that's saying it very nicely).

Ouch but hey it's funny at least.:lol:

Kinda fits Larian as their last two games loved element explosions.

Someone poke me in a year when its out of EA.

**Returns to playing Wasteland 3 and then tackling his ever growing backlog**

It's handy and I'm still using it with the same reasons and opinions as you, but I'm finding it heavier and heavier. Each time I start it, it checks for updates of the client, then regularly updates games I specifically told *not* to update automatically… The pages (even in the library) are more and more cluttered with everything they can think of to make users buy new stuff. And there are so many games of all quality levels in the store that it's uninteresting to browse.

On the other hand, GOG is getting more and more recent titles (Baldur's Gate 3 is one of them), so I tend to buy from there now, whenever I can. It also offers the basic "community" functionalities, but to be honest I don't use them. It will probably get heavier with time too, but for now it's good, and there's no bad DRM surprises. Sometimes the updates come a bit later than Steam but in general it's available at the same time, and download bitrates are comparable - for me at least.

ACG seemed to enjoy his 25h.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv1zncNVGQU

I purchased it on both Steam and GOG. Wanted to support them.

The regional pricing is just absurd though. :( Even Wasteland 3 slashed its price accordingly to Indian economy prier to launch

Hm. But it seems to be a different audience, the author doesn't seem much into CRPGs ;)

This comment on his article made me smile: "I was prepared for a tongue lashing, but that was a first grade scorching. How awful to hear that you're the enemy of your own story for hours on end. That's not D&D, that's GTA."

Well count me surprised as I expected every previewer to kiss Larian's ass because it's Baldur's Gate III. Tell ya what I wasn't wrong the other 99% do. Yeah I'm a smart-ass.:smartass: