More content for Baldur’s Gate 3 – and the community is celebrating it. Because other games would have charged a lot of money for this.
Although Baldur’s Gate 3 has been out for well over a year now, the developers have not stopped providing the game with new patches and updates. For games that only require a one-time purchase fee and do not even offer microtransactions, this is quite rare.
Baldur’s Gate 3 has now announced the huge Patch 8 with 12 new subclasses and many new features.
The community is correspondingly in a good mood, throwing away all their resolutions for the year 2025 to finally move on from Baldur’s Gate 3.
What’s happening with Baldur’s Gate 3? After the game’s great success, the developers announced quite early on that there would be no major DLCs to expand the game. This was received with mixed feelings. Some were happy that there are no microtransactions, while others were disappointed that the game would not be further developed.
However, the last year has shown that this concern was unfounded, as Larian has continued to release new patches.
“Now I want to be able to pay for it”
This is how the community reacts: In the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, many posts have emerged, all praising the announcement of the final big patch. Many find it fascinating that these are still free patches that do not require an extra charge.
“Now I want to be able to pay for it,” writes user suzumushibrain as an example.
Many see Larian’s ability to continue providing Baldur’s Gate 3 with free updates many months after launch as being grounded in the fact that the game has sold extraordinarily well. As klimekam writes:
“Larian now has so much ‘I don’t care’ money. They can make any game they want. I am extremely hyped for whatever comes next from them because it will be great.”
The thought is at least reasonable, as just a few days ago it became known how many millions of euros profit Larian has made primarily with Baldur’s Gate 3. This certainly justifies the patches – and further cements the good reputation in the gaming community.
However, many see the patch as an “annoyance” – although not very seriously. Because some would like to finally move on from Baldur’s Gate 3, leading to numerous memes in the community:
It is clear that Baldur’s Gate 3 is increasingly taking on the role of an absolute showcase game that not only performs extremely well at release but continues to be improved in the years that follow. Other gaming studios once had this reputation (like Blizzard used to) – now it seems Larian is claiming this glory for itself.
With so much love for the game, it is not surprising that Baldur’s Gate 3 is even more popular in its second year than at release.
