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In this interview, Brian Fargo says:
Yet there are numerous sources on the Internet that claim the game was in fact released in time for Christmas 1998, including Wikipedia and MobyGames.
VGChartz says it was released in November 1998 in the US and in January 1999 in Europe. Could that be it? Is Brian Fargo just confused?
In short, post here if you bought Baldur's Gate in 1998.
Some people forget that Baldur's Gate was originally supposed to make Christmas 1998 – there was a lot of pressure to have that thing make Christmas. I had retailer penalties into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I sucked it up and we didn't ship until January. People talk about quality – it's easy to talk about, but when you've got a gun to your head it's much harder to make that call. I'm glad that no publisher wanted Wasteland 2 because this is the best way it could have been made.
Yet there are numerous sources on the Internet that claim the game was in fact released in time for Christmas 1998, including Wikipedia and MobyGames.
VGChartz says it was released in November 1998 in the US and in January 1999 in Europe. Could that be it? Is Brian Fargo just confused?
In short, post here if you bought Baldur's Gate in 1998.