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Baldur's Gate 3 Is Even More Popular This Year

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Nov 18, 2024

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Over a year after launch, Baldur's Gate 3 is more popular than ever.
As revealed by Larian Studios director of publishing Michael Douse, daily active users are up by 20 percent this year.
Official mod support appears to have played an integral role, as over 40 percent of players now use custom content.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3 launched earlier than planned to avoid being overshadowe🍌d by Bethesda's first new single-player RPG in nearly a decade, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield, but in a turn of💟 fate, it stole the limelight complet🥂ely.

It immediately went viral upon leaving early access, amassing a peak player count of 875,000, while also sweeping up awards at every gaming ceremony under the sun, i🌳ncluding the hotly sought-after Game o𒊎f the Year prize. But even൲ with all of that critical acclaim and hype, you'd expect a cRPG to have died down by now — nope.

As revealed by Larian Studios director of publishing Michael Douse, daily active users are up by 20 percent this year, and daily peak concurrents are up by three percent. As I writ🐬e this, 54,000 ❀people are playing the game (on a Monday!), with a 24-hour peak of 100,000 players.

Larian Chalks It Up To Mods

Baldur's Gate 3 finally got 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:official mod support in September for PC, and for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:console later in October. Larian Studios has since revealed that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:over 40 percent of players use mods, and Douse hints that this played𝕴 a role in 💝its continued popularity this year.

If Skyrim has shown anything, a bustling modding community allowed to thrive is the key to longevity. From the smaller scale custom content to entire projects full of hobbyist developers working to expand on its world, even sparking new games like The Forgotten City (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:our 2021 GOTY winner), mods have kept Skyrim inꦕ the limelight for over a decade. Right now, 21,000 people are playing it on Steam! Mods are indeed very good.

Baldur's Gate 3 appears to be following in its footsteps, and it's hardly surprising. Mods can vary from simpleಞ cosmetics like reskinned 🌌dice to entire expansions that add enormous amounts of replay value, like new classes, species, or D&D mechanics. Baldur's Gate 3 is already an incredibly replayable game with its myriad choices, but throw in all of these mods and it's no surprise people still haven't left the Sword Coast.