Det var forventet, at Baldur's Gate III ville få en flot lancering, men spillets foreløbigt helt fænomenale succes er alligevel kommet bag på mange.
Også udvikleren selv er blevet overrasket. Det fortæller studiechef for Larian Swen Vincke til PC Gamer:
"This was not in the books at all. This was way, way beyond what we expected. There's also no precedent for it, for our type of game to have that many people playing concurrently ... Everybody here is very happy. You see a lot of smiling faces. At the same time, a lot of focus. We have reports coming in from people having issues, so we're focused on fixing those issues, that's very much on everyone's minds."
Studiechefen fortæller også, at man internt var bekymret for, at spillets tre år i Early Access ville lægge en dæmper på udgivelsen, men det har altså ikke vist sig at være tilfældet.
