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A comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K. Parent comment

Re:‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, T... by gmerc on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:24PM (#37025022)
I think you underestimate GenX/Y and our love for the time when games were not micrtransaction laced dopamine engines

BG2 was, for almost all of the 2000s, one of the highest ranked games of all time.

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Re:‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, T... by ls612 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:33PM (#37025107)
A lot of it is also that lots of big AAA non-live-service games were delayed by the lockdowns of 2020 and this year is when their releases have all piled up.
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