apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it’s been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a “try to debate Starfield to popularity” approach with the game’s skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it’s a winning strategy, personally.

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    If the top result when googling is accurate, BG3 has sold 22+ million copies.

    I would not trust that number. Larian just put out an infographic only days ago saying that 1.3M people completed the game. Using achievement data, we can extrapolate that out to somewhere between 7M and 8M copies sold.

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      Y’know, it’s possible people buy a game to play offline where you don’t get achievements. The numbers Larian put out could also include EA purchases from like, 5 years ago.

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        Achievement data is a percentage. Since there were no giveaways, PS+, or Game Pass offerings to skew the data, there’s no reason to believe that the percentage would change across other platforms or across people playing the game offline. The achievement we’re using is the one for beating the game, as is the finite number of 1.3M that Larian offered in their infographic. Yes, that number does include early access purchases. Why wouldn’t it? Those are still copies sold, and they’re still included in achievement data.