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>>redbel+(OP)
The title of this article is essentially meaningless.

BG3 is single player offline game, mainly distributed globally through Steam (and GOG) which runs it's own CDN for games. There is a multiplayer mode but that is co-ordinated via p2p for the most part.

The "IT team" at Larian doesn't get hit with those downloads as they only send a single copy up to Steam's CDN which handles the traffic (perhaps some backend user authentication too?)

so essentially this article is "Baldur's Gate 3, is a very popular download on Steam" just buzz to push more sales presumably.

>>yownie+Fz
>The title of this article is essentially meaningless.

It's worse than that, it's creepy. What is a single-player offline game phoning home anyway? On every play? It's crazy how much software companies get away with these days.

The frog is well and truly boiled.

>>javajo+AV
It's a DRM free game. I cannot say if the game pings home or not because I don't own it but this statistic is collected by Steam, not Larian.

>>etra0+cY
They outsourced "home".