I wish they had DLC plans, I loved this game. The endgame set-up is perfect, one DLC could be the Karlach/wyll ending, one could be helping Gale with his thing... Theres endless material there
That's...not quite right. The demographic into these games like the length, it's great content and tells an awesome story. They want replayability. They want choices. They look forward to mistakes and seeing where it leads. To them length just means more time to enjoy every possible way of doing things.
Most of the player count increase is on weekends and players are genuinely returning to play on their own, not because of some event or update. Last update was many months ago and next will be in August.
My wife and I finished a local coop evil durge run this past weekend. We sat there after we quit the game and said "what game do you want to play now?"
We looked around my 700+ steam game library and over a hundred of which have multiplayer.
She says "I'd be down to like.. create a new character in bg3 because character creation is fun. I want to make a big tiddy goth durge, but we just played for 10 hours so you only got me for like another 2 before bed". To which I replied "I want to punch people into oblivion while naked as a monk because I've never done something so ridiculous in a game like this".
Because no one has beaten it yet! Seriously I’m 95 hours in and at Act 3 and there is still at least another 20 or so hours of me playing before I get to what I’m assuming is the final quest.
Great fucking game. And I’m someone who likes playing shooters and racing games.
I haven't bought it yet, as it's not a game style I normally enjoy. I've heard so many positive things that I will likely buy it at some point though, just not near full price.
I expect im not alone here, and that the long tail will be long indeed for this one.
Just want to add that I, and loads of others from what I’ve seen, thought exactly the same way you do, in that the game really didn’t seem like my type of thing. I don’t play dnd, and I haven’t enjoyed other games like it in the genre before.
I mean even their previous game, Divinity Original Sin 2, I tried so hard to get into but couldn’t.
But let me tell you… not only was it my goty, it became one of my favorite games of all time. I seriously couldn’t recommend it more.
I don't like turn based games, I don't really like classic fantasy, I especilaly hate hotbar style WoW combat. I am not a D&D fan. I really thought I wouldn't like BG3.
But I adore BG3.
The writing, the dialogue, the areas, quests, it's all just too good. The game is huge, AND deep. Even the combat has grown on me, though I would still prefer something in the vein of the later Mass Effect games.
Its got a multiplayer component right? That's likely the biggest contributing factor to this. I doubt these numbers are all people playing the game solo.