With the Steam Player Count of Baldur's Gate 3 thriving after Patch 8, Larian now has “a space to focus on making our next big thing as great as possible”

Baudel's Gate 3 The number of players on Steam has increased significantly after the highly anticipated patch 8 release, which has allowed developer Larian to focus well on the next big game.

The huge, game-changing patch 8 was launched last week. Its release speed has sparked a surge as fans pour into testing new subcategories and brand new photo modes.

On Steam, Baldur's Gate 3 hit a peak of 169,267 on the weekend, an incredible feat for the second year of single-player role-playing game. Sony and Microsoft will not publicly provide PlayStation or Xbox Player numbers.

Reflecting on the release of Patch 8, Larian Chief Swen Vincke Tweets To say he hopes Baudel's Gate 3 “continues to do well for quite a while”, this is not only due to the improvement of the patch 8 player, but also the “thriving” mod support.

This in turn makes Larian “focus on making our next big thing as good as possible”. “We have big shoes to fill.”

“It feels great about the location of BG3 today,” Vincke said. “Patch 8 attracts a lot of people again. It takes a lot of development work, but I'm glad we did it.”

“With the support of the Mod thrives, I think the game will continue to do well now for quite some time. It allows us to focus on making the next big thing as good as possible, and that focus is very welcome. We have big shoes to fill.”

As Larian said, Patch 8 is the final big update of the game and draws a line in a great moment for the developers. Bauder's Door 3 initiates criticism and Huge business success Back in 2023, and have been selling strongly in 2024 and 2025.

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However, D&D owner Hasbro laughed at the plan to continue the series. Talk to IGN at a game developer conference, Dan Ayoub’s senior vice president of digital games, Larian keeps going,,,,, Hasbro “There are many people who are very interested in Baudel’s door.”

“We are making plans for the future and what we are going to do,” Ayub said. “In fact, in a very short time, we will have something about it.”

Ayoub provides no other information on whether this “thing” is a full-fledged new Baudel Gate or some kind of crossover in the work, like the characters and magic: previous parties. However, he did admit that he ended up want to Baudel's Gate 4, but that production may take a while.

“It's a little enviable,” he said. “I mean, we're not in a hurry. Is that? That's it, we're going to take a very measurable approach… We have a lot of plans, there are a lot of different ways to take. We start thinking, well, yes, we're ready to start the toe and start talking about something. I think, I think, that's what I'm saying, we've said something, we've said something at this point, we've solved something.

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