One week after launch, Baldur’s Gate 3 gamers have spent 88 years in character creation

It’s been eight days since Baldur’s Gate 3 left early entry for its full launch, and the playerbase has already spent a complete lifetime—88 years—simply in character creation, in line with one infographic launched by Larian Studios at the moment.

This comes as no shock for anybody enjoying Baldur’s Gate 3, as we all know that the sport’s character creation is extraordinarily detailed, and since the game itself became an instant hit. What makes the character creation nice is the sheer quantity of prospects; the complete course of is superbly designed and it lets you construct a very distinctive journey.

That’s to not say the expertise is ideal. The one factor I missed was extra variety when it got here to the voice actors. As a South American, I couldn’t relate to any of the eight voices you’ll be able to select in character creation. Apart from that, the expertise was marvelous. My pals and I began a Gnomes-only marketing campaign, and each one among us constructed a completely completely different character from each other regardless of everybody being the identical race.

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The character creation statistic wasn’t the one one launched by Larian Studios. The developer also published a bunch of other interesting facts, such because the quantity of people that completed the sport on the opening weekend, the share of gamers who died as a consequence of pleasant fireplace, and the quantity of performed hours mixed already surpassing 1225 years.

Infographic with fun facts of Baldur's Gate 3's first week. The data includes how many people finished the game in the opening weekend, the total amount of years spent in character creation, and more.
Some amusing statistics of Baldur’s Gate 3’s first week. Picture by way of Larian Studios

There’s an enormous chance the years spent in character creation will surpass the 100 mark and the sport will proceed amassing data, because the neighborhood is already planning methods to hit a million concurrent gamers on Steam within the coming weekend.

Concerning the creator

Leonardo Biazzi

Workers author and CS:GO lead. Leonardo has been captivated with video games since he was a child and graduated in Journalism in 2018. Earlier than Leonardo joined Dot Esports in 2019, he labored for Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte. Leonardo additionally labored for HLTV.org between 2020 and 2021 as a senior author, till he returned to Dot Esports and have become a part of the workers group.

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