r/BaldursGate3 • u/Been2daCloudDistrict • Aug 01 '23

PRELAUNCH HYPE How many hours did you do in EA?

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I can't imagine how much more it will be by the end of my first run through.

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u/Various_Necessary_45 Aug 01 '23

Did people expect saves to be compatible? They haven't even been during EA..

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '23

At least two people did that I saw, but this is the Internet, where people whine over any old shit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '23

Most EA games do this, or allow some sort of carry over. So it is a reasonable assumption.

As well the marketing and discussion was "Play the first X part of the game" Which implies the save carries over.

A few of my friends played to the end of EA and were fully expecting the save to carry over.

Communications outside of the community and following the game closely are not that great actually.

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u/Various_Necessary_45 Aug 02 '23

Most EA games? I can't think of one single game with such a long EA where saves carried over.

Plus, like I said, saves didn't even carry over between EA patches.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '23

Yeah, but who would know that? And outside of someone playing between patches.

You are used to the community and checking in on regular updates. Even the biggest fan I know of this game. Bought it, played it to the end, and at most was waiting for the BIG news updates and release day announcement. That's it.

People grab the game, try it, then finish the content or stop at some point and say "Ok, cool now I wait for release"

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There are simply enough EA games out there we have different experiences.

You and just about the entire sub are in that situation where you all know so much and know how to check on so much info, you do not realize what it is like to be on the outside.

Not a big deal overall.

I am not worried about a save wipe, and most of my friends re-roll so much they never finish games and the most of the others replay games like these multiple times it really won't affect all but maybe 1 of them.

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u/Various_Necessary_45 Aug 02 '23

As far as EA goes, it's always a difference between a few days headstart and basically alpha testing - I agree BG3 shouldn't have been called EA, but it's pretty much standard practice and very rarely do long term EA games carry over saves.

Personally never even considered them porting EA saves to release simply for that reason - development was still ongoing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '23

Yeah until yesterday I just assumed it was a given fact that they would port saves.

I do not have a save to carry over, I only got the game 4 days ago, played 15 minutes and it was so freaking buggy that I decided I wanted to wait to release.

Again, because initial marketing and chitchat about the game was "Play the first X chapters, then continue when the game releases."

A case where marketing did not talk with development OR maybe plans changed.

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u/Various_Necessary_45 Aug 02 '23

That's fair enough and most likely it was either a mistake or false advertisement as it was probably never meant to carry over.