Early Access

[Mikyto]

I've been hearing everywhere that Baldur's Gate 3 is the next coming of Christ so I went ahead and tried it. After playing a bit on an old Windows system I fell in love with the game and decided to install it on my main computer and laptop both powered by MacOS.
Upon loading into the game I was greeted by an announcement that I am in Early Access.
Hearing everywhere that Larian are the best developers ever that love their customers (even though there already is a DLC pack available which makes me chuckle at such tirades) and then being greeted by essentially false and fraudulent advertising makes my head spin.

This is not okay. There should be a clear label **before purchase** that this is in fact still an early access title. Official promotional material showed that the game will be releasing in full on PC making no mention of distinction between Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

I implore the community and the developers to cease these deceptions and bring back the Early Access tag for the game as it is, by definition, unfinished.

[SkyTis]

Same here but, I play it on PC and saw that I can install it on Mac too, so I downloaded it over night. At the morning I started the game and got the early access message... to bad, I was excited to play it also on the mac on the couch.

Hopefully there will be an update soon.

[Яeplicant]

It's not. There you go.

What platforms can I play the game on?
Baldur's Gate 3 is currently released on PC, via Steam, GOG and Nvidia GeForce NOW.

Baldur’s Gate 3 will release on September 6th on PS5 (September 3rd for owners of the Digital Deluxe Edition). We’re also targeting September 6 for Mac (via Steam, GOG, GeForce NOW) — to be confirmed. Additional platforms TBD.

[Mikyto]

Baldur's Gate 3 is currently released on PC

Fun fact but 'personal computer' stands for the device itself regardless of whether it has a Windows, Linux, or MacOS operating systems. If it's released on PC then that should include Mac and Linux. Anything short of is a blatant lie.

[Siñor Stripper~Pole]

Originally posted by Mikyto:

Baldur's Gate 3 is currently released on PC

Fun fact but 'personal computer' stands for the device itself regardless of whether it has a Windows, Linux, or MacOS operating systems. If it's released on PC then that should include Mac and Linux. Anything short of is a blatant lie.

...and bandaid is a name brand. Colloquially its used to mean a Windows PCs. When people say a Mac, they do so to differentiate between a "pc" and a Mac, however.
That distinction has been around for a VERY long time.

[Mikyto]

Originally posted by Siñor Stripper~Pole:

Originally posted by Mikyto:

Fun fact but 'personal computer' stands for the device itself regardless of whether it has a Windows, Linux, or MacOS operating systems. If it's released on PC then that should include Mac and Linux. Anything short of is a blatant lie.

...and bandaid is a name brand. Colloquially its used to mean a Windows PCs. When people say a Mac, they do so to differentiate between a "pc" and a Mac, however.
That distinction has been around for a VERY long time.

Except this is done in reverse. Saying "we have band aids" and then having, well, another brand of bandages is okay as in both cases you get the item just of a different brand. In this case they promoted release on PC while releasing it only on Windows while having Mac and Linux listed in the requirements section on the purchase page.

So I bought a product where the developers lied to have released a full version on PC.

This also completely disregards as they ran marketing in multiple languages where Macs are just called PCs or 'computers' (such as my language funnily enough).

If EA had done this the steam page would be set ablaze with 'overwhelmingly negative'.