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

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400 points redbell | 1 comments | 06 Aug 23 15:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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ilaksh ◴[06 Aug 23 18:47 UTC] No.37025235[source]▶
Takeaway: even executives with a highly technical background will often make lazy incorrect decisions that can potentially sabotage months of effort by the company. Vinke's decision to under-prepare for scaling issues has put the team in the position of needing to possibly do heroic work at the last second to prevent the online part from falling over and creating very bad experiences for users.
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1. hinkley ◴[06 Aug 23 19:05 UTC] No.37025405[source]▶
When your player base is predicted to be small you also can’t afford to do little niche things that 5% of players will appreciate. Depending on which strategies you’re talking about, that can add depth to the game, or extra revenue.

So there’s a deluxe edition, which is an extra ten bucks and adds some cosmetics and physical items. But with the base game at $60, the collector’s edition probably should have brought it to $75. For a game that will easily hit 1.5 million downloads in the first few weeks, let the whales fund updates and sequels.