No, it’s not an authoritarian country, so no, we’re not talking about North Korea or Iran (the former would be interesting since the Internet is banned there…).

Michael Douse, Larian’s publishing director, revealed on Twitter exactly which country we’re talking about: “Sold 2 copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 in the Vatican, with 1 wishlist. I’d like to think the latter is just the Pope waiting for a free minute. I wish I could see their mod list. I bet it’s absolutely gnarly,” Douse wrote.

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This is not the first time the Catholic Church has turned its attention to the gaming industry, as we learned in July that Carlo Acutis had been canonized. The teenager, born in 1991, was an “influencer of God” on the Internet and died of leukemia in 2006. This makes him the first millennial saint. Among his favorites were Halo, Pokémon, and Mario. He even had a website where he kept track of miracles.

So, after the canonization of Acutis, the Vatican is back in the games, with about 764 official citizens, half of whom do not even live on the 121 acres. More than 100 are members of the Papal Swiss Guard. It follows that quite a few of the citizens might have played Baldur’s Gate 3 because if it was indeed ordered from the Vatican (console? PC? we don’t know), someone from the church might have had a look at Larian’s excellent and successful creation.

Douse’s comment also did not say if a proxy was used, but since there is probably no Vatican proxy or VPN, it is almost impossible that someone could have been tricked into buying Baldur’s Gate 3 from inside the Vatican. The interesting thing is that someone wish-listed it. (But you can tell that at least HERE it’s a PC person!)

The world is changing when even the Vatican turns to games…

Source: PCGamer