Diablo 3 declared 'fastest selling PC game' ever
Blizzard has declared Diablo III the fastest-selling PC game of all time, selling 3.5 million copies within the first 24 hours, and boasting over 6.3 million players within the week.
From the launch day server meltdown to the way everyone you know seems to be playing, it's pretty clear that Diablo III is quite popular. But just how popular? Blizzard announced today that it sold 3.5 million copies within the first 24 hours, which supposedly makes it the fastest-selling PC game of all time.
On top of those 3.5 million copies were another 1.2 million doled out free to World of Warcraft Annual Pass subscribers. After a week, Blizzard says, Diablo III was up to 6.3 million players--not including South Korean game rooms, where it's estimated to have a 39% share.
"We're definitely thrilled that so many people around the world were excited to pick up their copy of Diablo III and jump in the moment it went live," CEO Mike Morhaime said in the announcement.
"We also regret that our preparations were not enough to ensure everyone had a seamless experience when they did so. I want to reaffirm our commitment to make sure the millions of Diablo III players out there have a great experience with the game moving forward, and I also want to thank them for their ongoing support."
As well as rolling out sneaky little balance updates, Blizzard is investigating reports of nasty hacks, and preparing to launch the real-money auction house on May 29.
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Blizzard has declared Diablo III the fastest-selling PC game of all time, selling 3.5 million copies within the first 24 hours, and boasting over 6.3 million players within the week.-
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I dug up the corpse last week just to spit on it, then stuck it back in the ground where it belongs.
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There is a Necromancer in D3?
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PC gaming is dead *
* Excluding Blizzard, GOG, Valve, all the facebook games, MMOs, etc-
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I would say blizzard at least farted on its fans with this latest release.
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Lol, if you think the internet comprises 100% of reality, maybe.
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Actually, we elitists don't count the facebook games either.
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I only count indie games made by starving college students that haven't bathed in 5 months
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But they cannot be assholes * (Fez guy) unless they're assholes to major publishers (Jonathon Blow).
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Another fan of Cactus I see!
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Not dead, just on life-support. A few titles like this one should help reinvigorate it ...
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It's on online-support....
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ROFL!
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A few titties usually invigorate me too.
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It's just shifted to having more smaller budget indie games instead of big budget ones like on consoles. I'm ok with that though since indie games are mostly the only ones doing anything unique and innovative these days.
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Not dead. Just resting.
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You must have an old crappy PC that cant play current games....
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If all the games we will be getting in the future are Starcraft, Diablo, WoW and their ilk it might as well be dead in my eyes,
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That is an insane number. There's a Wiki list on best selling PC games and Diablo 2 is listed as 4 million copies sold.
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There's something magical about the Diablo brand. I've had several friends who have all but given up on gaming in the last few years due to different reasons just go ape shit with D3, enraging their SO's and skipping sleep. A huge number of sequels for classic games have come out that these people just shrugged off, but not Diablo. Clickity click.
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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5152409863?page=1
Thank you Blizzard, we shall continue trusting in you.
What, Battle.Net Passwords ignore Lower/Upper Case? S'cool. really. We forgive ya. totally.-
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You get about 5.1 bits of entropy per character using a case insensitive alpha numeric symbol set.
You get about 5.9 bits of entropy per character using a case sensitive alphanumeric symbol set.
Using an 8-character random password? You're strength is ~41 bits using case insensitive, and ~47 bits using case sensitive. If you care, add a character, but neither can reasonably broken in your lifetime.
Also, the difference is actually less if you include the symbol set as well, as Blizzard does.
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but.... piracy!
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Diablo 3 is thus far unpirateable due to it's always on architecture. So....
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That will be very significantly harder with D3 than with WoW and at the end of the process they'll have a new game that can simply interface with the D3 client.
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They were ok, the game generally worked. The biggest issue is that none of the WoW community exists on them so they're ultra boring. The mechanics work fine though.
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If anything Diablo shows that extremely aggressive DRM is a good thing for sales!
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Diablo shows that the key to a successful PC game is using 3 vowels in the game title.
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Semantic satiation. Although that's more about the meaning of the word.
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Good news I guess. But no Steam = no buy...
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Why do you people exist?
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Take it easy. I like owning games on Steam. Do you mind?
Besides, I'm not really interested in these kinds of games. But if it was on Steam I would maybe consider it when it's goes cheap on sale.
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Good luck with that. Diablo 6 will be out before that mofo drops below $20
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im stil pissed that i bought diablo 2 full price and then when I went to find it a few years ago the cd key had rubbed off the cd case
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I never played one and yes.
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It is pretty awesome.
D2 was more piece of art>game. A social experience where one could learn real life lessons (harshly) through the actions of others.
This is just a great game: fun, addicting, nice looking. A monetary [corporate] experience where a facade of success and accomplishment is the main selling point.
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Crack sells. Story at 10.
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It was?
I don't know anyone that owns a PC that bought this game and we all grew up playing Diablo.
Must be little kids and posers that got caught up in the hype. Diablo 3 is the same game as Diablo 1 with some added crap.
Blizzard aint even Blizzard anymore. Core team left eons ago. Guess they got tired of handing out the same shit.
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