I'm confused, I thought BG3 was already out?

[World's Strongest Man 1984]

I came to check this store page about a week ago and saw people talking about how much they liked the game. Why is the store page and every news outlet saying that the game released today? Didn't it come out in 2020? I can't seem to get a straight answer on this.

Edit: Looking at Wayback machine, the release date was Oct 6, 2020. Why is everyone only just playing it today?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Chris Mintz-pie:

I'm confused, I thought BG3 was already out?
I came to check this store page about a week ago and saw people talking about how much they liked the game. Why is the store page and every news outlet saying that the game released today? Didn't it come out in 2020? I can't seem to get a straight answer on this.

Edit: Looking at Wayback machine, the release date was Oct 6, 2020. Why is everyone only just playing it today?

Everything before today was early access with limited content. Now you have the actual release.

[Lemonbarde]

Early access released in 2020, the full game released today.

[AlphaVictorKilo]

Early Access. It contained only Act 1

The official full game release is today

[Luke the Lucky]

Is this troll or genuine question?

It was in early access before full release today

[Yojo0o]

For real?

[World's Strongest Man 1984]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Chris Mintz-pie:

I'm confused, I thought BG3 was already out?
I came to check this store page about a week ago and saw people talking about how much they liked the game. Why is the store page and every news outlet saying that the game released today? Didn't it come out in 2020? I can't seem to get a straight answer on this.

Edit: Looking at Wayback machine, the release date was Oct 6, 2020. Why is everyone only just playing it today?

Everything before today was early access with limited content. Now you have the actual release.

Straight forward answer. Appreciate it.

[LordAnubis]

It's been in Early Access since Oct 2020. It full released today.

[Guyver]

Star field will be the next big release

[World's Strongest Man 1984]

Originally posted by Luke the Lucky:

Is this troll or genuine question?

It was in early access before full release today

Why is trolling to ask this question? Is it that shocking that not everyone is an absolute slavering BG3 super fan? It's genuinely confusing that Steam has changed the "release date" to today, when the game actually "released" 3 years ago.

[Luke the Lucky]

Originally posted by Chris Mintz-pie:

Originally posted by Luke the Lucky:

Is this troll or genuine question?

It was in early access before full release today

Why is trolling to ask this question? Is it that shocking that not everyone is an absolute slavering BG3 super fan? It's genuinely confusing that Steam has changed the "release date" to today, when the game actually "released" 3 years ago.

My bad then - just a lot of trolling on the forums today, plus you searched wayback machine but not google to find answer?

[Pride]

Originally posted by Chris Mintz-pie:

Originally posted by Luke the Lucky:

Is this troll or genuine question?

It was in early access before full release today

Why is trolling to ask this question? Is it that shocking that not everyone is an absolute slavering BG3 super fan? It's genuinely confusing that Steam has changed the "release date" to today, when the game actually "released" 3 years ago.

It is trolling. The question is stupid. You claimed you couldn't find a straight answer, yet one Google search would have provided you with one. Also, this is how it works for for early access titles. It didn't cross your mind that it was initially released as early access? Come on now.

[World's Strongest Man 1984]

Originally posted by Luke the Lucky:

Originally posted by Chris Mintz-pie:

Why is trolling to ask this question? Is it that shocking that not everyone is an absolute slavering BG3 super fan? It's genuinely confusing that Steam has changed the "release date" to today, when the game actually "released" 3 years ago.

My bad then - just a lot of trolling on the forums today, plus you searched wayback machine but not google to find answer?

It's all good man. I honestly tried Google, and it said the game came out today. I tried typing it differently, looking on the wiki, and I could not find anything about the game coming out before today.

[World's Strongest Man 1984]

Originally posted by Pride:

Originally posted by Chris Mintz-pie:

Why is trolling to ask this question? Is it that shocking that not everyone is an absolute slavering BG3 super fan? It's genuinely confusing that Steam has changed the "release date" to today, when the game actually "released" 3 years ago.

It is trolling. The question is stupid. You claimed you couldn't find a straight answer, yet one Google search would have provided you with one. Also, this is how it works for for early access titles. It didn't cross your mind that it was initially released as early access? Come on now.

That isn't what trolling is. In fact, I'd argue that saying "your question is stupid. Google it" is more of a troll, than asking an innocent question that seems to be buried and/or unanswered entirely.

It did cross my mind, in fact I presumed that was likely the answer, I just couldn't understand how there was absolutely no way to figure that out through Steam itself. I don't know why they don't have a "early access release date" underneath this supposed new release date. I went through old discussion threads, old patch notes, multiple Googles, and for all intents and purposes, it appeared like the game had just come out today. Today just marked the 1.0 version, which I'd argue doesn't mean "release", if the game was literally "released" to the public 3 years ago.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Luke the Lucky:

Is this troll or genuine question?

It was in early access before full release today

To be fair, it can be confusing when games are in "early access" but are late.