Baldur's Gate 3 Profits Revealed - Here's Why It's Important

With the success of Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 we learn a bit more about the profit Larian will see from said success. However, this comes at a time when other companies like Casey Hudson's Humanoid Origin just announced their closure. Here's why I hope Larian's success keeps moving the industry toward a better place.

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[What_do_I_Think]

The success of Larian was absolutely EARNED.

It is important, bc it shows that it is possible to love games and not the money alone and have success!

[matheus.bueno]

Now Larian just said they will release 12 new subclasses to the game, alongside Photo Mode and other cool things in a new Patch FOR FREE, due early next year. It's just crazy how much better Larian is over other gaming companies!

[andyt]

The amount of good will Larian has earned with its community is staggeringly off the charts. The early-access numbers on its two upcoming games I’m sure will be equally off the charts.

[Xanshi]

Glad for larian studios. If you know their history. They got screwover by publishers in late 90's & 2000's which forced Swen to start to publish their own games. Without that independence, we would never gotten bg3. The amount extra of stuff in that game would have never been possible if larian has a publisher.

[AndreiJoji]

Who would've thought that a game made with love, passion, respects their players and IP turned out to be financially succesful and profitable.

[RipperoniSandwich]

So Larian saved themselves. That's what ambition and passion does

[Velventian]

So larian has operational costs of about 23 million and made 249 million profit (pre tax), so very roughly they made enough money to operate for 10 years just by themselves....Awesome, well deserved.

[Rucarlos]

I'm dying to see what they can do with Divinity Original Sin 3, with their newfound experience and resources.

[Square-ne]

I wish more studios would operate like Larian or HelloGames. Release your game, invest the profits to secure funding for paying the employees and long game development cycles while avoiding going public and feeding the shareholders. This way we could have enjoyable well developed games without microtransactions and developers that can pour their creativity into these games. Without the pressure to maximize profits from financial investment companies.

[corey]

This just proves how insane game development costs have gotten.

If Larian "only" made $230 million on a game that sold as well as BG3, how many copies & microtransactions did Concord need to sell to even make back that $400 million, let alone profit?

You have many AAA games costing $200 - $300 million to make, so they must need to sell a TON just to break even, then sell even more to make a profit.

[pepperoni]

It's well deserved, I have heard great things about the game and just ordered the collector's edition from their website. Cannot wait to start playing it. Also just started to download Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2. Hope they keep up the good games for years to come.

[longdeath]

BG3 should be Game of the Decade in 2030

[Ireniicus]

It appears the Gaming environment is maturing in a good direction with great Developers like GGG, Larian and CD Projekt succeeding and reaping rewards; whilst Blizzard and other large Devs that treat their customers poorly experiencing reduced revenues.

[MarcelHoskins]

Jus got the game last night and it's EARNED! I'm hooked after a few hours.

[mojrer]

For the first time in years i had no issues with spending that kind of money ( in my country they are really expensive compared to the rest of the world) to buy that game.
Well deserved money Larian, good job.

[frakzilla]

BG3, og FF7 and ME2 are by far my fav games ever. Bg3 is so crazy good. Gonna try to play cyberpunk and elden ring next year, if I can open the time for it.

[ArthropodSpidey]

Good news because Bethesda is gonna fuck up TES6 for sure.

[Fuzyman]

A great example of why publishers are terrible at games... Publishers are focusing on maximizing profits while game studios usually try to make good games. When a Game stupio can publish their own game... It means they can do what they want not what some outside business focused department wants. Glad to see Larian doing well and i will keep supporting them with future games.

[tmes]

It’s important because it shows you don’t need to release your game day one on Xbox to be successful.

[Emloch]

I sincerely believe we are going to see a massive shift in the industry; for the better. It will take some time due to the long development cycle of the industry, but I'm certain it will happen. The industry will not be able to continue to ignore the type of titles that are the top that respect our time, wallets, and intelligence.