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According to Activision-Blizzard's latest earnings report, the gaming world has snapped up over ten million copies of Diablo III since it launched in May.
Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo III, released on May 15, 2012,set a new industry launch record for PC games and was the #1 best-selling PC game for the first six months of 2012. Through July, more than 10 million players have entered the world of Sanctuary.
Check out the full financial report on Activision-Blizzard's site.
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Next up Sc2: HoS, and while I don't see that selling as much as this it to will be profitable...
Play for fun. Play to win. Play for perfection. Play with friends. Play in another world. Why do you play?
I'm going to buy D3. I'm just going to wait until it's $15. So they'll get my money in a couple of years I guess.
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While true what you said.. But there has to be something there to others people liking else the game wouldn't continue to sell at such a fast pace... Weather its the fact you can make money off the game or some other nic, something is in the game to warrant person spreading the word that its worth getting and they casts there own judgement..
Serious question though... does anyone know how many copies of D3 were sold in each of the markets? NA, EU & Asia
agree, as Ive posted elsewhere
D3 sold 10 million in 2 months (including the 1.2 million annual pass)
but the bulk of that happened in the first week with 7.5 million sold (including annual pass)
I doubt D3 will sell 20 million before 2013
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I'm not saying people can't make their judgment about a game they have purchased. But just because Bio/EA can sell over 3 million copies of SWTOR does not make SWTOR a worthwhile game. Just because Blizzard can well ove 10 million copies of D3, does not make D3 a worthwhile game. I guess in essence quality is subjective because no two players are a like; so in essence my point is somewhat irrelevant. Having said that, though number of copies sold is a measure of "success", it in itself is not a measure of quality.
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Activision Blizzard has three central franchises: Call of Duty, Warcraft, and - now - Diablo.
The problem that the company has is that its impressive cashflow is almost entirely dependent on World of Warcraft. Without World of Warcraft, it will be lossing almost 60% of its earnings. Not even the behemoth (and flagging) franchise that is Call of Duty can keep up with the amount of money Blizzard makes through subscriptions in a year.
Many people want to know why Vivendi are attemtping to severe themselves from Activision Blizzard. The answer is pretty simple: Activision Blizzard is, as a long term prospect, unsustainable. With World of Warcraft numbers declining at a steady and not-insignificant rate, the liquidity and cashflow that the company has it dwindling. Certainly it's going to take a while before they're cash-strapped, but it's going to take them less time to fall from the perch they've been sat upon for the last 4 years.
Activision Blizzard is a catastrophe waiting to happenm regardless of how well Diablo 3 sold.
I disagree
Blizzard doubled their profits last year -- and it was not due to WOW subs
Call of Duty made them a boatload of cash
Activision Blizzard posts $1 billion profit in 2011
http://www.gamespot.com/news/activision-blizzard-posts-1-billion-profit-in-2011-6350085
day, Activision Blizzard reported its fiscal 2011 earnings report, and the success of the first-person shooter franchise helped propel the company to record profits of $1.08 billion on revenues of $4.76 billion. That's a significant improvement over 2010, when profits were $418 million on revenues of $4.45 billion.
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I like it and play every day. I wonder if people's opinion would be different about the game if the always on-line and RMAH wasn't in the game.
When people buy all their gear, either on the Gold or RM AH, then there really isn't a point to playing past the first playthrough.
I've played other games that are similar to Diablo 3, and Diablo 3 is much superior BY FAR. So, even tho my positive opinion goes against the popular opinion that D3 is a bad game, I think I'm still right. Over 200 hours played and still going strong.
I reality I think this game was just too hype and long overdue that person expected the second coming...
I don't know, but maybe i'm too jaded. I saw d3 as an ok game, with the changes the keep making up to release I had a feeling direction on the game was out of sync and as such I expected and ok release just to appease fans..
So far the D2 guys that are making torchlight 2, "Seems" to be on the right track..
Agreed.
I include myself in the "sucker" category unfortunately. The game is pure garbage.
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Correct me if I'm wrong (I am regularly), but weren't you bashing this game all the way back in beta? Why did you buy it?
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
I got my money's worth out of it. Can't ask for more (Though lot of people do).