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We just broke the highest number of concurrent Steam users at 875,343! (steamcharts.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [M] to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world
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For context, Larian Studio founder Swen Vincke predicted that the game could reach 100,000 peak concurrent users during its debut period, and that was a fairly optimistic prediction. I work in IT, and really feel for those folks. I hope they designed their infrastructure to scale!

And that's only Steam, not including GOG, or the influx of PS5 users next month. Let's take it to 1 million!

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Would need to lean on AI for something like that, I think. Keep the normal human-acted main cast/supporting characters, delegate everything else to AI.

It's already been done with a Skyrim mod.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    I mean, good compression and a huge budget for VAs would also accomplish it. The limiting factors are really just cost and storage space of the files. Like they probably pay the devs $35/hour and that sounds good; but a big name actor like JK Simmons probably gets like $1000/hour for his work as Ketheric.

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