Baldur's Gate 3 lands on Mac one day late

Starting Friday, gamers on macOS can play the critically acclaimed role playing game "Baldur's Gate 3."

Baldur's Gate 3 was first released on PC in early August and has quickly gained popularity among reviewers and players, with some even considering it a contender for the best game of 2023. The game is now expanding to other platforms, having been released on PlayStation 5 in early September and set to arrive on Xbox Series X/S before the year's end.

Now Mac gamers can download and play Baldur's Gate 3, which received a patch to make it compatible with macOS on Friday. The game was initially slated to be released to Mac on Thursday, September 21, but the developers stated that the patch would undergo one additional day of testing to ensure quality.

Patch 3 is coming, and it's a big one. To ensure thorough testing, we're releasing Patch 3 this Friday, September 22 instead.

Thanks for your patience, all! https://t.co/Ex8hrMOHNq
— Larian Studios (@larianstudios) September 20, 2023

Baldur's Gate 3 is available to purchase via Steam for $59.99.

9 Comments

mknelson 1146 comments · 9 Years

About 1 year ago

A day? 3 weeks?

Potaytoh, potahtoh

chasm 3592 comments · 10 Years

mknelson said:

A day? 3 weeks?

Potaytoh, potahtoh

FTA: “ The game was initially slated to be released to Mac on Thursday, September 21, but the developers stated that the patch would undergo one additional day of testing to ensure quality.”

Sorry if this confused you.

22july2013 3725 comments · 11 Years

When Apple says "new episode Fridays" I usually find (for me in my time zone) that it's available Thursday night. That's because there are multiple time zones and multiple dates at any given time around the world. This is also why, when Apple says, "delivery starts on <date>," the first people to get the delivery are in New Zealand, because <date> always occurs first there. (Actually, it occurs first in Kiribati, but only 14% of the people there have a cell phone, and it's probably not a smart phone. And half of the islands in Kiribati don't seem to have any cell phone coverage.)

This could explain why Baldur's Gate was a few hours late: it was actually released Sept 21 somewhere in the world. Maybe even Alaska, which is next to the International Date Line. Parts of Alaska are located in the Eastern Hemisphere of earth.

On a less entertaining note, it is disconcerting that Larian studios believes they can perform "thorough testing" in 24 hours, and that they had performed only non-thorough testing up until the day of release.

emig647 2446 comments · 20 Years

Was really hoping for a long trope about Kiribati :)

It is amazing that the Mac finally gets a AAA game release in a reasonable time frame.

Marvin 15336 comments · 18 Years

22july2013 said:
On a less entertaining note, it is disconcerting that Larian studios believes they can perform "thorough testing" in 24 hours, and that they had performed only non-thorough testing up until the day of release.

Usually that means that the thorough testing wouldn't be completed by the 21st, not that they didn't do thorough testing.

Software patches are made against bug reports. Bug reports are selected for a patch and they can estimate the time to fix. The bugs are then fixed all the way until the patch release along with a QA test per bug. If bugs are patched late, they need to be tested and it can push the patch release until later, otherwise they can be pushing other bugs into production.

emig647 said:
It is amazing that the Mac finally gets a AAA game release in a reasonable time frame.

And not a lazy port either, a fully native Metal renderer. It looks like it's running well - high quality, 50-60FPS, 1440p on M2 Pro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61dK7_0_ooM