Diablo 3 sold 12m on PC !!!!!

Bought it
Played it
Got bored of it
Sold my gear
Profit (approx £480 after cost of game deducted)

I think I got my moneys worth and im not suprised at those numbers to be honest, it was VERY VERY busy at launch and still holds a healthy population today.

/Salsa
 
Remove Diablo from the name and people call it a great fun game, although has an awful RMAH.

Give it the Diablo name, didn't consume peoples lives for the next 3 years, must be awful.

Mind you PC community spewing hyperbole is hardly a new thing
 
StevieP said:
I bought it, played it, loved it, got frustrated with it when I realised I pretty much had to use the AH to progress past a certain level and ultimately never played it again!
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Same.

As soon as I realized the AH was the only way to get through the game I gave up. I wanted to spend my time looking for items in game rather then sifting through similar items, trying to find the cheapest price and getting sniped at the last minute.

I feel I got my moneys worth though.
 
Purdy said:
Remove Diablo from the name and people call it a great fun game, although has an awful RMAH.

Give it the Diablo name, didn't consume peoples lives for the next 3 years, must be awful.

Mind you PC community spewing hyperbole is hardly a new thing
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Not that I was ever that into any of the Diablos but it's not exactly crazy to hold a sequel up to the standard set by the prequels to said game. Would you prefer the reaction that people (both PC and console players) seem to have to the various CoD sequels?

No idea what you're talking about with the "pc community hyperbole" comment but it sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder about something.
 
Great game, took me a while to find a boxed copy, but ultimately glad i did.

Don't buy/play that many new games, but certainly got my fill and enjoyment from it.

As others point out though, kinda soiled it with the real money stuff. More the premise behind it than anything else, blizzard, and other companys turning users in to what are effectively gold farmers with those types of mechanics.

Definately not a good route to head down, easy to ignore myself, but having a younger generation sitting on their backsides for hours on end playing fiddle to blizzard to make more millions on top of the millions they have isn't good for our society.
 
It wasn't great. Mind you I have heard it has been improved greatly with recent patches. It just didn't entice me to stick around for long enough (I played through a good few times still).

And for all you that got it free with WoW. I got a WoW pass free with it the other day xD

kd
 
FrenchTart said:
Not that I was ever that into any of the Diablos but it's not exactly crazy to hold a sequel up to the standard set by the prequels to said game. Would you prefer the reaction that people (both PC and console players) seem to have to the various CoD sequels?

No idea what you're talking about with the "pc community hyperbole" comment but it sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder about something.
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I never played much of D2 myself, but a lot of people seemed to regard it pretty ****** before the expansion.

Also D3 on its own merit is a good game, people calling it a pile of **** constantly is a bit silly. Isn't the CoD reaction fairly similar 'blah blah sucks compared to CoD4, cash cow etc etc'. I read compared to D2 it sucks, RMAH is attempted cash cow albeit we are on Diablo 3, not Diablo 24 so 'same rehashed garbage' isn't part of the arguement.

Also while they both have a massive amount of haters, they'll both still sell well in their sequels I imagine, CoD for sure anyways.



As for chip on my shoulder, no, no chip. I didn't even reach max level in D3 and I'm near exclusively a PC game player so not really much to have a chip on my shoulder with is there.
 
A fun game with friends. Leveling together. Got stale @ 60 with the poor level of good quality drops. Must have got in over 500 hours before I stopped playing. Don't think I could return unless they added a ton of new mobs to other acts. A good game that could have been great. A pity it wasn't.

Oh, and I expect a lot of those sales to be accounts for bots.
 
12 mill whilst impressive, is less than what Blizzard Activision thought it would pull in I think, haven't they moved the dude in charge of dev off the IP & onto "other projects"
 
Newbie007 said:
12 mill whilst impressive, is less than what Blizzard Activision thought it would pull in I think, haven't they moved the dude in charge of dev off the IP & onto "other projects"
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hahahahahaha

12 million, for a single sku on the pc only. AC3 only sold 12 million across 3 sku's. Looking at their results as a best ever year D3 did better than they expected.
 
I don't see why this can be looked on as a bad thing in anyway? A PC exusive shifted 12 million copies at a very high RRP, means the PC Gaming market is in a good state and should help to encourage other publishers and debs to get their act together regarding PC Gaming.
 
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