‘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?

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!

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.