‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K

Oh it's okay, it's a single-player game, it's not that you need any server capacity for that. Other than download servers but it's Steam's problem, not publisher's.

...right?

kind of like how disk shouldn't be a bottleneck for framerate, but, you know... how we forget.

It’s also multiplayer coop but I assume this is P2P

I hope so, otherwise it's yet another time bomb

They have a cross platform save sync service which has been disabled, but it sounds like that wasn't load related. I'm not sure how big the save games are but 700k people mashing the quick save button every 30 seconds probably adds up.

It has a multiplayer mode

https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-multiplayer-co-op-gui...

You wrote your comment as though it's not ok, while you can play it offline in single player just fine.

But there's optional Cross-Platform save sync (independent of the steam one) and multiplayer.

Anyway, as a person who bounced off of the previous entries of this genre I'm really enjoying this one, and I'm very happy for the success the studio is having - they deserve it!

It should be. It supports LAN connections as well.

I have a total of about 75 saves: quick and auto saves are limited to a rolling 25 by default, plus about 25 manual saves. Steam shows I have used 795 MB of space, so they're not _big_ but they're not small.

You all forget about all the telemetry, which most decent games from the last 5 years have. It is fact of life that they collect all kinds of data to understand better their user base and game usage for future improvements.

They are a pain. I'm 9 hours in and at 1/17GB in Steam Cloud. I've been going between my Mac and an ROG Ally and syncing saves takes upward of 3-4 minutes and sometimes just fails silently (loudly if you launch the game, but still fails). Steam is definitely not built for that, considering that piece of the user interface barely gives any feedback.

It might be related to multiplayer or that one had to redownload the game. The EA was so different, you had to uninstall and then install when it unlocked globally. No preload available.

BG3 even has an explicit “slow hd” toggle in the options to help mitigate this issue.

Can you start it without a login? They have a launcher

Yes. Login is not required.

> it's not that you need any server capacity for that

They had Twitch integration since the beginning and judging by some accounts they weren't prepared for how much that would be in demand on full release. Each user can see streamer's full inventory and journal, vote on dialogue options when asked, etc. Surely Steam isn't handling that.

You can skip it entirely with this launch option in steam: `--skip-launcher`.

Ive stopped playing on my Ally and only play on Geforce Now as I encountered a save issue that woulda lost over 7hours of play.

It's not a fact of life, just people with low morals making excuses.