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[KingT731]

So people are acting like the game wasn't in Early Accessfor 3 years (Sold around 3M in that period) or that the budget wasn't north of $100M and still launched with a lot of issues.

 

[Shut0wen]

This is an important point. The foundations for BG3 were laid circa 2011-2012, when they started development on the first Original Sin game. They continued refining the engine and the toolset throughout the decade.
I think it's fair to say that BG3's combined development took about 11 years.

Exactly especially since they wanted to do the game before divinity 2 but they were told they were inexperienced