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'''Early Access''', or ''EA'' for short, is the funding and development model [[Larian Studios]] followed at the start of the game. Early Access games consists of buyers receiving an unfinished and/or unpolished version of the game in order to help providing feedback and funds, helping on the completion of it.

Larian decided to follow this model after seeing their continuous success in their previous games, Divinty: Original Sin and Divinity: Original Sin 2, which followed the same model.  

The Early Access of [[Baldur's Gate 3]] started on October 6th, 2020. Since then, Larian has released multiple patches fixing bugs and changing or adding content depending on the users' feedback. At the start, the game offered a limited amount of [[Character_Creation#Playable_Classes|Classes]], [[Character_Creation#Playable_Races|Races]], [[Companions]] and quests.

Baldur's Gate 3's ''EA'' costed 60 US Dollars and remained the same on release. Early Access buyers '''did not''' have to buy the game again on full release.

The updates could be divided in two big groups; '''hotfixes''', which only focused on fixing a certain amount of usually game-breaking bugs or crashes, and '''patches''', which were updates usually surpassing 50 GB on size and added or vastly modified content and improved stability.