How complete is baldur's gate 3 in terms of content and story wise? Can we reach max level etc?

- The Early Access version only includes the first act (roughly 25 hours of content -- estimated to be about 20% of the final game, if that).
- The level cap in Early Access is 4.
- Several races and classes are not available to play yet.
- Many of the companions are not available to join your party yet (the Early Access companions are predominately Evil or Neutral).
- It's almost assured that your saved games from early access will NOT be compatible with the final version of the game. Expect to re-roll when the final game releases.
- Many of the game systems are still under active development and may change rather considerably before the final release.
- You are almost guaranteed to encounter bugs and performance issues since the game is still under active development. You are essentially paying to be a tester and to trying out various changes to the game before release.

In years past, companies used to hire professional software quality assurance testers to make sure their games worked right: the company paid players to play their games and provide feedback. Nowadays, gamers are so impatient that they will actually pay developers to have "Early Access" to games that are still under active development and nowhere close to being finished: gamers are paying developers to do what used to be a paid profession.

As Ryan above mentioned, it's still in Early Access (quite incomplete). I suggest waiting for the full version unless you are that anxious to play.

Thank you guys ill wait a bit or a few months or a year ;) cheers

If it's as far unfinished as above then why the FCK is Gog selling this now? There will be update after update and patch after patch and this is good business? All this to me is money grabbing from suckers who will pay for it in the long run and Gog are you proud to sell something so incomplete? Is this the new Gog who couldn't care less about individual customers and treat them with utter contempt. Stick it, where the sun doesn't shine! And I don't care what you all or Gog thinks of this as I'm sure it will result in another one of your unfair/bias bans.

Yes and no. There is pretty big difference between (hopefully) paid internal testers and early-access gamers.

Testers mostly have to ensure that the game "works", that means testing for bugs, and give feedback about the implemented game mechanics - but mainly on the level of "it works" (or not). Otherwise testers are usually pretty late to the party - when development is almost finished - and have little influence on the game itself. Also in-house testers, or even test studios only have a limited selection of hard- / software combinations. Their machines likely don't have the amount of drivers, background processes, anti-vir and other garbage a normal person's work PC accumulates over the years.

Early access is a more "community driven" approach. Depending on when a game is released "in-dev" feedback of the "testers who paid for the game" can be quite major. Whole characters and stories might get rewritten, game mechanics dropped, added, altered. And also with hundreds or even thousands of people testing the game on their more or less messy home machines technical problems and incompatibilities surface quicker.

So EA is like a pre-order, where you can participate in shaping the game. That's not inherently bad. Of course people should always know what they're getting into: That they're getting "work in progress" and that they're encouraged to give feedback.

I don't know about story, but I'd honestly give it another 6-12 months. Larian games are great but as we saw with DOS:1-2, they release it, issue a dozen patches, release an "Enhanced Edition" then release half a dozen patches. Then it's finished. DOS:3, uh I mean BG3 will probably be no different. ;-)

What's worse in those case is that the games came with an editor, but the Enhanced Edition was not compatible with mods created with earlier versions anymore. So no wonder there are so few of them, they really shot themselves in the foot with this, if they were hoping for a thriving modding community.