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killatopak
Member
Engagement numbers the right way. With sales inferred within.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
30M copies sold in just 4 months?
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Lol bruh it took me like 12 characters before I could finally stick with one
You aint estimating sales based on that
You aint estimating sales based on that
jm89
Member
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Mowcno
Member
This sales assumption is very wrong. Not all of these origin character selections are unique players. They can use origin characters again in another playthrough.
From the origin character selections and the 94% custom characters we could estimate 33m playthroughs, 33m character selections. But even this will be too high. If they said "94% of playthroughs use a custom character" then we could calculate total playthroughs, but that's not what they said. Part of the 94% of players that created a custom character may have also selected an origin character on a playthrough too.
So the only thing we can get out of those statistics is there are less than 33m playthroughs. There is no way BG3 has sold 33m copies already.
From the origin character selections and the 94% custom characters we could estimate 33m playthroughs, 33m character selections. But even this will be too high. If they said "94% of playthroughs use a custom character" then we could calculate total playthroughs, but that's not what they said. Part of the 94% of players that created a custom character may have also selected an origin character on a playthrough too.
So the only thing we can get out of those statistics is there are less than 33m playthroughs. There is no way BG3 has sold 33m copies already.
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Thirty7ven
Banned
Chat GPT is being asked the wrong question.
WitchHunter
Banned
So essentially most of the players want
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!
Also 452 million hours spent playing, but we don't know that at least 100 million hours spent on waiting for the enemy to move. Also, if the game sold 23 million copies, then on average people spent 20 hours playing... a 75+ hour game : DD. So around 15-20% completion rate. Very good numbers, indeed... bravo. An official sales figure would help a lot.
YeulEmeralda
Member
I wonder how many people even get to the end. It's a long game.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
I've created about 15 characters and still not happy with any of them (hence being on 16... I'll start the game properly at some point)
Lucifers Beard
Member
Not sure this infers any sales. I've made 3 characters in different playthroughs and I think that's nothing. I'm sure there are people that have over 20-30 characters.
Mowcno
Member
1.3m players have completed the game. Steam achievements show that 17.4% of players have done this. So total players will be around 7.5m. This gives an average playtime of around 60 hours per player to reach 452 million hours played. Sounds about right.
steamcommunity.com
Due to the average completion rate almost certainly being lower on PlayStation this number will in reality be a little higher than 7.5m though not by too much as the Steam userbase is almost certainly vastly larger than the PlayStation userbase for this game.
By comparison Divinity Original Sin 2 sold 1m copies on PC in 2 months. So yes BG3 is vastly more successful than any game they made before, but we already knew that.
Steam Community :: Baldur's Gate 3 :: Achievements
Due to the average completion rate almost certainly being lower on PlayStation this number will in reality be a little higher than 7.5m though not by too much as the Steam userbase is almost certainly vastly larger than the PlayStation userbase for this game.
By comparison Divinity Original Sin 2 sold 1m copies on PC in 2 months. So yes BG3 is vastly more successful than any game they made before, but we already knew that.
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DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Amazing! good on em!
Party McHardy
Member
There it is. I don’t think there’s anything about this company I don’t like. I found the game overwhelming with its choices to the point I had to take a break. I did however make my first character a Drizzt clone and I have zero regrets.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
1.3m players have completed the game. Steam achievements show that 17.4% of players have done this. So total players will be around 7.5m. This gives an average playtime of around 60 hours per player to reach 452 million hours played. Sounds about right.
Steam Community :: Baldur's Gate 3 :: Achievements
Due to the average completion rate almost certainly being lower on PlayStation this number will in reality be a little higher than 7.5m though not by too much as the Steam userbase is almost certainly vastly larger than the PlayStation userbase for this game.
By comparison Divinity Original Sin 2 sold 1m copies on PC in 2 months. So yes BG3 is vastly more successful than any game they made before, but we already knew that.
Terrance Howard level Maths going on here.
1.3Million players have completed the game. Based on an 11% completion rate for past larian games and steam stats that would mean around 11.8M in sales as a very rough estimate.
Edit: i see that
Mowcno
has already done a much better job of this using the steam stat for this particular game.
Edit: i see that
Mowcno
has already done a much better job of this using the steam stat for this particular game.
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Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
It was sold in early access for 2+ years.............but it's actually about 10 million since EA.30M copies sold in just 4 months?
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Why not just tell us how many people bought the game?
Doom85
Member
1.3m players have completed the game. Steam achievements show that 17.4% of players have done this. So total players will be around 7.5m. This gives an average playtime of around 60 hours per player to reach 452 million hours played. Sounds about right.
Steam Community :: Baldur's Gate 3 :: Achievements
Due to the average completion rate almost certainly being lower on PlayStation
Somebody on gamefaqs posted a screenshot showing 16.7% of people got the gold trophy for finishing the game, so not much lower.
However, on my PS5 it shows that gold trophy is at 12.4% of players got it, so not sure why there’s a difference, but to further complicated the things the silver trophy Hero of the Forgotten Realms which Is basically the “save the world” ending choice is at 14% of players got it, so not sure how that works out.
Regardless, even if the average completion rate of PC players was higher than PS5 players, it wasn’t by a massive amount.
VideoGameEnjoyer
Member
That math is dumb as hell lol
I'm sure it is as 10M+ at this point though, which is very well deserved. Feels like an evergreen game as well, it will always be a regular on those Steam charts.
I'm sure it is as 10M+ at this point though, which is very well deserved. Feels like an evergreen game as well, it will always be a regular on those Steam charts.