Diablo 3 hits 8.8 million with 1.2 million Annual Subs

[QUOTE="wis3boi"]

[QUOTE="Ravenshout"] So what? Too bad your precious Bioware's cinematic story-telling doesn't have equal universal appeal.

Too bad Mass Effect 3 hasn't sold as much. Too bad too bad.

You are welcome to talk trash about Blizzard's success when a single game from Bioware has reached 10million.

Ravenshout

Poor trolling attempt, asswipe. I'm not a bioware fan either. When you finish grammar school, get back to me.

Hey look, I can be a grammar nazi too: 'Poor trolling attempt, asswipe' is not a legitimate English sentence. It's not even a clause.

I can write however I want, so long as you react to it.

The fact that you don't even understand the term "grammar school" is further proving my point. Get lost.

[QUOTE="R4gn4r0k"]

This happens everytime a Blizzard game releases it seems.

People complain and complain but will buy the next Blizz game anyway so their complaints are pretty much worthless.

Wasdie

Blizzard always has seemed to properly patch up their games in the end. It takes them awhile, but they do it. I'll bet in 2 years we'll see a Diablo 3 expansion and the game is going to play way different and be a lot more fun. Just watch. That's how Blizzard works.

Starcraft 2 had that as well, just not to the extreme. Starcraft 2 launched and people liked it, but it recieved a lot of early hate. Not as much as Diablo 3 of course, but the numbers were much smaller. When you're pushing 9 million sales, you're going to have more volumes of people upset.

World of Warcraft had the same isues. It launched, got universal priase for it's gameplay, the community started to hate it and already people were trashing it left and right, then Burning Crusade came out and it was patched up and then it started getting a lot of praise. Of course a year or two later they started stripping stuff down and making it more consumer friendly which has never set well with a lot of MMORPG fans.

Diablo 3 would have gotten even more praise at launch if it wasn't for the server issues. Those prevented the high AAA scores at launch. People get upset about the end game content being messed up at the moment but the game is more than just end game content.

They do need to fix that end game content up and get that PVP in ASAP. If they keep ignoring the problems, the game will never improve and the future expansion won't sell worth squat.

[QUOTE="RyviusARC"]You pretty much had no choice but spend real money at the cash shop because you will eventually run out of money repairing your equipment.ChubbyGuy40

You are grossly overstating that. You can make 200k-300k easily in Act 1 doing Butcher runs. If you're dying that much then you're not ready for later stages of Inferno.

[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

[QUOTE="RyviusARC"]You pretty much had no choice but spend real money at the cash shop because you will eventually run out of money repairing your equipment.Advid-Gamer

You are grossly overstating that. You can make 200k-300k easily in Act 1 doing Butcher runs. If you're dying that much then you're not ready for later stages of Inferno.

Nope. I stopped playing it because I got bored. Dungeon crawlers were never my kind of game but I stuck around because friends were still playing. Definitely gonna give it another shot with 1.04.

Keep calling me blind but you still believe the AH and real money is mandatory. You're one hell of a hypocrite for calling this game trash yet put 400 hours into it. I do have doubts about you even being legit about beating Inferno, since you did switch to Barbarian which had a semi-famous bug and then called the game easy only after that. "Boo-hoo this game sucks because I die in Inferno. This game sucks. Boo-hoo loot just doesn't fall into my hands. This game sucks. Boo-hoo I have a powerful weapon and still can't beat Inferno. This game sucks. Boo-hoo I switched to a new character and beat Inferno Diablo. This game sucks. Boo-hoo 400 hours in and this game still sucks." That's a summary of your experience according to the Diablo 3 thread.

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[QUOTE="the_bi99man"]

So no one answered earlier, so I'll ask again. What does TC mean by "1.2 annual subs"? Subscriptions? ....? What?

HyperWarlock

I would like to know this as well.

The World of Warcraft annual pass gave away Diablo 3 for free aswell as a free mount and Mists of Pandaria beta access.The annual pass is basicly a 12- month commitment to subscribe. For people that always sub to WoW anyway this was a sweet deal.

Sooo... 1.2 people bought annual WoW subscriptions to get D3? I still don't get it.

[QUOTE="HyperWarlock"]

[QUOTE="R4gn4r0k"]

I would like to know this as well.

the_bi99man

The World of Warcraft annual pass gave away Diablo 3 for free aswell as a free mount and Mists of Pandaria beta access.The annual pass is basicly a 12- month commitment to subscribe. For people that always sub to WoW anyway this was a sweet deal.

Sooo... 1.2 people bought annual WoW subscriptions to get D3? I still don't get it.

[QUOTE="HyperWarlock"]

[QUOTE="R4gn4r0k"]

I would like to know this as well.

the_bi99man

The World of Warcraft annual pass gave away Diablo 3 for free aswell as a free mount and Mists of Pandaria beta access.The annual pass is basicly a 12- month commitment to subscribe. For people that always sub to WoW anyway this was a sweet deal.

Sooo... 1.2 people bought annual WoW subscriptions to get D3? I still don't get it.

Yeah. Like he said, it's a great deal for us who still play WoW. We're paying monthly anyway, so might as well get Diablo 3 and MoP beta with it.

The Annual Pass wasn't a buyable thing. It was more of a contract saying that you will pay for 12 continuous months of WoW to get those items. If you cancelled then you'd get your Diablo 3 license taken away as well as MoP beta access, and the Tyrael's Charger mount for WoW.

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"][QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

You are grossly overstating that. You can make 200k-300k easily in Act 1 doing Butcher runs. If you're dying that much then you're not ready for later stages of Inferno.

ChubbyGuy40

Nope. I stopped playing it because I got bored. Dungeon crawlers were never my kind of game but I stuck around because friends were still playing. Definitely gonna give it another shot with 1.04.

Keep calling me blind but you still believe the AH and real money is mandatory. You're one hell of a hypocrite for calling this game trash yet put 400 hours into it. I do have doubts about you even being legit about beating Inferno, since you did switch to Barbarian which had a semi-famous bug and then called the game easy only after that. "Boo-hoo this game sucks because I die in Inferno. This game sucks. Boo-hoo loot just doesn't fall into my hands. This game sucks. Boo-hoo I have a powerful weapon and still can't beat Inferno. This game sucks. Boo-hoo I switched to a new character and beat Inferno Diablo. This game sucks. Boo-hoo 400 hours in and this game still sucks." That's a summary of your experience according to the Diablo 3 thread.

I wouldn't be so surprised about that number. Look at how many people bot. Keep in mind they don't buy 1 or 2 licences to bot, they buy around 50 - 100+ each.

I would be surprised if there is still half a million unique PLAYERS still playing. Everyone I know has stopped.

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[QUOTE="HyperWarlock"]

The World of Warcraft annual pass gave away Diablo 3 for free aswell as a free mount and Mists of Pandaria beta access.The annual pass is basicly a 12- month commitment to subscribe. For people that always sub to WoW anyway this was a sweet deal.

DanielDust

Sooo... 1.2 people bought annual WoW subscriptions to get D3? I still don't get it.

Oh. Okay. 1.2 MILLION. That's not what the topic title says.

Hahahah, you crack me up, I nerver once cried about how hard the game was, I have always complained about loot and the lack there of. Like I have already said the game is not hard at all its all about the gear, harder difficulty=mobs have more life and hit harder=get better gear, the mobs do nothing different then normal them have more life and hit harder, its funny you think this game actually takes skill. Advid-Gamer

Of course you didn't. It's impossible for a game these days to be hard. Gear is the sole factor the determines if you live or die. You just don't want to admit you were bested by the difficulty. It can't be your fault, it has to be Blizzard's right? You can't even admit the game is good. No game is trash if you've put even 1/4th of the time you did into it.

It does take skill. Does it take the skill of a Quake 3/Live top-tier player? No, but skill doesn't mean you need to be the absolute best of the best. You should drop that assumption.

Oh. Okay. 1.2 MILLION. That's not what the topic title says.

the_bi99man

Thought people would've assumed that. Changed it :P

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"] Hahahah, you crack me up, I nerver once cried about how hard the game was, I have always complained about loot and the lack there of. Like I have already said the game is not hard at all its all about the gear, harder difficulty=mobs have more life and hit harder=get better gear, the mobs do nothing different then normal them have more life and hit harder, its funny you think this game actually takes skill. ChubbyGuy40

Of course you didn't. It's impossible for a game these days to be hard. Gear is the sole factor the determines if you live or die. You just don't want to admit you were bested by the difficulty. It can't be your fault, it has to be Blizzard's right? You can't even admit the game is good. No game is trash if you've put even 1/4th of the time you did into it.

It does take skill. Does it take the skill of a Quake 3/Live top-tier player? No, but skill doesn't mean you need to be the absolute best of the best. You should drop that assumption.

Oh. Okay. 1.2 MILLION. That's not what the topic title says.

the_bi99man

Thought people would've assumed that. Changed it :P

You dont even make sense.....:| This is why I stopped responding to you last time. You are crazy, seriously, and I guess you have no skills lten, since you still havent been able to finish the game, watch kripps ww barb video make one for cheap and beat the game already. Lol skill. Kipp is the first person to beat the game on HC inferno, watch his build......looks like it takes major skill right there........you have no idea what the hell you are talking about most of the time.

Advid-Gamer

I know who Kripparrian is and what he's done. Why would I want to make the game easier? To beat someone who I beat 3 times already? Once I beat him then I have no reason to come back to Diablo since I don't give a damn about PvP. If I'm gonna kill Inferno Diablo, it's gonna be the character I started out with, not the one I find easiest. I burned myself out on the game. Being able to kill Diablo just for the sake of killing Diablo would provide no satisfaction and probably lower my outlook at the game.

I am well aware of what I talk about. It's quite easy to understand if you took the time to read. But I know you're just using that as an excuse because you have nothing left to justify your bashing of it.

And you do understand what he did to prepare for that fight, right? Had others help farm gear for him, and stashed extra away incase he died. He went and killed Inferno Diablo 3 times to prepare for the fight. He also took Krippi along with him but that doesn't matter. It was also done after party damage scaling was taken out as well. That doesn't mean anything since no one beat it before then anyway. Kripp has mad skills at D3, as well as other games too. Pretty sure he's a hardcore PvEer in WoW.

I still don't understand what people think is good about Diablo 3.

I still don't understand what people think is good about Diablo 3.

xLittlekillx

The gameplay. The game is absolutely solid in that area. The game is meant to be played with others, so (at least IMO) the game will naturally be boring solo.

[QUOTE="xLittlekillx"]

I still don't understand what people think is good about Diablo 3.

ChubbyGuy40

The gameplay. The game is absolutely solid in that area. The game is meant to be played with others, so (at least IMO) the game will naturally be boring solo.

You point on things and click at them, using other keys to trigger a small handful of abilities. What do you mean when you say that it's solid?

You point on things and click at them, using other keys to trigger a small handful of abilities. What do you mean when you say that it's solid?

xLittlekillx

If you sum it up like that, every game sounds dull. Gameplay goes beyond controls.

As someone who did not have Diablo 2 and wasn't expecting the second coming of Christ, I think it is a great game. Amazing? No. Awful? No, but there are areas of improvement. It's a $60 game, not a lifestyle like everyone wanted it to be.

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"]

You dont even make sense.....:| This is why I stopped responding to you last time. You are crazy, seriously, and I guess you have no skills lten, since you still havent been able to finish the game, watch kripps ww barb video make one for cheap and beat the game already. Lol skill. Kipp is the first person to beat the game on HC inferno, watch his build......looks like it takes major skill right there........you have no idea what the hell you are talking about most of the time.

ChubbyGuy40

I know who Kripparrian is and what he's done. Why would I want to make the game easier? To beat someone who I beat 3 times already? Once I beat him then I have no reason to come back to Diablo since I don't give a damn about PvP. If I'm gonna kill Inferno Diablo, it's gonna be the character I started out with, not the one I find easiest. I burned myself out on the game. Being able to kill Diablo just for the sake of killing Diablo would provide no satisfaction and probably lower my outlook at the game.

I am well aware of what I talk about. It's quite easy to understand if you took the time to read. But I know you're just using that as an excuse because you have nothing left to justify your bashing of it.

And you do understand what he did to prepare for that fight, right? Had others help farm gear for him, and stashed extra away incase he died. He went and killed Inferno Diablo 3 times to prepare for the fight. He also took Krippi along with him but that doesn't matter. It was also done after party damage scaling was taken out as well. That doesn't mean anything since no one beat it before then anyway. Kripp has mad skills at D3, as well as other games too. Pretty sure he's a hardcore PvEer in WoW.

Oh Im sorry, I guess i forgot ,U are so hardcore. You want a challenge thats why you have already beaten the game and not given up, but continue to praise it like the 2nd coming, I call you out because you are annoying, and have acted like you know more then anyone about this game since day one, but you are just a noob know it all. Like I said before you cant tell me anything about this game I dont already know. Stop your Bs already Im not buying it, and no one else cares. Advid-Gamer

Continue to praise it like the second coming? :lol: Please point out where I supposedly praise it as so. If by praise, you mean picking apart your poor statements as to why you think it's a bad game, then I shall continue to do so.

Yeah and I call you out for being an immense hypocrite. Stop what BS? You keep saying this but you don't explain what it is. Are you mad that you can't even put up arguments to why you think this game is bad? Or are you that delusional?

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"] Oh Im sorry, I guess i forgot ,U are so hardcore. You want a challenge thats why you have already beaten the game and not given up, but continue to praise it like the 2nd coming, I call you out because you are annoying, and have acted like you know more then anyone about this game since day one, but you are just a noob know it all. Like I said before you cant tell me anything about this game I dont already know. Stop your Bs already Im not buying it, and no one else cares. ChubbyGuy40

Continue to praise it like the second coming? :lol: Please point out where I supposedly praise it as so. If by praise, you mean picking apart your poor statements as to why you think it's a bad game, then I shall continue to do so.

Yeah and I call you out for being an immense hypocrite. Stop what BS? You keep saying this but you don't explain what it is. Are you mad that you can't even put up arguments to why you think this game is bad? Or are you that delusional?

Are you slow or something? I have stated many times why the game sucks, I have said the game play is fun. Its a loot based game with the point of the game finding badash loots, the loot sucks and drops are tied to the AH/RMAH blizz also buffing elemental damage and acting like its a bug but still hasnt been fixed., how many times must I repeat myself. You seriously have a problem, and I feel bad for even arguing with you, If I had known you were so slow from the beginning I would have just ignored your post all together.Advid-Gamer

So you're still a conspiracy nut. Loot is not determined on what is on the RMAH or the GAH. How someone even managed to think of that is absurd. You only started the mention the gameplay was fun once you found a powerful weapon that allowed you to fire and forget. Drops suck? Welcome to the world of loot-based games. So they buffed elemental damage, so what? Get more resistance gear. Most of it isn't a big deal unless you get jailed/walled/can't move.

Rather be slow than stupid, ignorant, and hypocritical. Feel bad all you want. Won't make your pathetic arguments any better. I do like how you're reassuring yourself that I'm handicapped and that you've wasted your time replying to me.

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"]Are you slow or something? I have stated many times why the game sucks, I have said the game play is fun. Its a loot based game with the point of the game finding badash loots, the loot sucks and drops are tied to the AH/RMAH blizz also buffing elemental damage and acting like its a bug but still hasnt been fixed., how many times must I repeat myself. You seriously have a problem, and I feel bad for even arguing with you, If I had known you were so slow from the beginning I would have just ignored your post all together.ChubbyGuy40

So you're still a conspiracy nut. Loot is not determined on what is on the RMAH or the GAH. How someone even managed to think of that is absurd. You only started the mention the gameplay was fun once you found a powerful weapon that allowed you to fire and forget. Drops suck? Welcome to the world of loot-based games. So they buffed elemental damage, so what? Get more resistance gear. Most of it isn't a big deal unless you get jailed/walled/can't move.

Rather be slow than stupid, ignorant, and hypocritical. Feel bad all you want. Won't make your pathetic arguments any better. I do like how you're reassuring yourself that I'm handicapped and that you've wasted your time replying to me.

AHHahhahaha. god you are such a noob, it was even stated by one of the CM on the diablo forums that drops were related to the AH. If you would actually read the forums, you will see that the loot problem i was talking about WEEKS ago is the number 1 problem with the game, and why the community hates it. You are a joke, and dont know a thing about the game, just stop already, I am willing to bet you have very few friends in RL.Advid-Gamer

You mean the CM that later editted out and explained what he meant by that? Hell since you watch Kripparrian's videos, you can watch his video on why loot sucks since you obviously are too ignorant and stupid to understand how it and drop chances work. The community is sh!t. i refuse to go to that sh!thole. It's nearly as bad as Bioware's forum. As stated multiple times, the community hates it because they thought they were gonna get 5+ years worth of Diablo 2 experience in two weeks with Diablo 3. They had seriously unrealistic expectations

I'm willing to bet you don't even have a life. From the day you stated you put over 400 hours into the game, you would've had to play over 7 hours a day to reach that much. You must have tons of fun forcing yourself to play a game you hate for 7-8 hours a day. Get over yourself. Not everyone needs to share your sh!tty opinion of Diablo 3. It's sad you can't accept that.

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"]AHHahhahaha. god you are such a noob, it was even stated by one of the CM on the diablo forums that drops were related to the AH. If you would actually read the forums, you will see that the loot problem i was talking about WEEKS ago is the number 1 problem with the game, and why the community hates it. You are a joke, and dont know a thing about the game, just stop already, I am willing to bet you have very few friends in RL.ChubbyGuy40

You mean the CM that later editted out and explained what he meant by that? Hell since you watch Kripparrian's videos, you can watch his video on why loot sucks since you obviously are too ignorant and stupid to understand how it and drop chances work. The community is sh!t. i refuse to go to that sh!thole. It's nearly as bad as Bioware's forum. As stated multiple times, the community hates it because they thought they were gonna get 5+ years worth of Diablo 2 experience in two weeks with Diablo 3. They had seriously unrealistic expectations

I'm willing to bet you don't even have a life. From the day you stated you put over 400 hours into the game, you would've had to play over 7 hours a day to reach that much. You must have tons of fun forcing yourself to play a game you hate for 7-8 hours a day. Get over yourself. Not everyone needs to share your sh!tty opinion of Diablo 3. It's sad you can't accept that.

Laughing out loud at you, that is all I can do. Wow. Last time I respond, and like last time i expect a poor response with nothing but babble, just to get in the last word..... lol go ahead. Dude grow upAdvid-Gamer

Good. You finally have nothing left to post. Even if my response was poor, you still have nothing to say/counter it. But here you are still telling yourself than I'm an idiot to make yourself feel better about the crap you spew out. You know this won't be the last time you respond. You said that 3-4 times before and yet you come back. I'm almost worried you have an obessesion with this.

[QUOTE="Advid-Gamer"] Laughing out loud at you, that is all I can do. Wow. Last time I respond, and like last time i expect a poor response with nothing but babble, just to get in the last word..... lol go ahead. Dude grow upChubbyGuy40

Good. You finally have nothing left to post. Even if my response was poor, you still have nothing to say/counter it. But here you are still telling yourself than I'm an idiot to make yourself feel better about the crap you spew out. You know this won't be the last time you respond. You said that 3-4 times before and yet you come back. I'm almost worried you have an obessesion with this.

Just to clear this up and prove how much garbage you spew out your ass, the last time I said i was done responding to you in the OFFICIAL DIABLO3 FORUM,I never responded to you again and that thread died. For all you SLOW people this is a different thread, and is weeks late, my god you have problems, post you BS response, I will not respond again in this thread, but will call your dumb ass out on the next thread I feel like doing

Advid-Gamer

Yeah you said that at least twice in the PC Diablo thread alone. In fact you just said it now, and are already back. You really are desperate for attention, aren't you?

[QUOTE="xLittlekillx"]

You point on things and click at them, using other keys to trigger a small handful of abilities. What do you mean when you say that it's solid?

ChubbyGuy40

If you sum it up like that, every game sounds dull. Gameplay goes beyond controls.

You're right, usually it does go beyond controls. In the case of diablo 3, I didn't really find anything there beyond the controls.

It nearly completely sold on the foundation that Diablo 1 and 2 built. I don't think the sales for this game are a very good indicator of the game itself. I wish there was data included such as the number of refunds or the number or the number of people who stopped playing regularly. Also note that WoW players that signed up for the 1 year subscription got instant access to the new expansion beta, which was probably more of an insentive for WoW players than D3 was. I know 7 friends who bought the game, including myself, we all got refunds (not even close to a big enough pool, however as all of us who have enjoyed previous blizzard titles, it does leave some doubt in my mind to the actual amount of people playing... The game may have sold that much, however it is likely that a lot of people do not play it regularly if at all anymore.

Anyways, I'm really biased against D3. I loved D1 and 2, but D3 was such a let down, and it's eviident for anyone who has visits the diablo 3 forums, official and nonofficial, that I'm not the only one who feels this way. I guess they measure success in money and not the happiness of their customers and fans, too bad. Good for them though, they made a lot of money, even though they did alienate a lot of old fans, I'm sure they made new ones and will continue to do so, at least there's some good Indy games out there, and it's not like I can't play Diablo 1 and 2 anyways, sigh, peace.

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]The major thing Diablo 3 lacks is longevity. Imho, undeserved. Ravenshout

Your logic makes no sense to me..

If anything I don't think one should compare the start of D3 to D2, because Blizzard should have learned their lesson in the first go. If they fixed everything in D2, why did they completely ignore all of it when making D3? When Microsoft releases a new Xbox and if it contains some sort of hardware malfunction are people going to say "So what, the Xbox 360 had hardware malfunctions, and Microsoft fixed them 3 years after it came out, they will eventually fix this one too" No, people just aren't going to buy it. Diablo 3 will be compared to the highest patched version of Diablo 2 simply because it has been at that patch since Diablo 3 was being created, keep building on what you have learned works and what doesn't work.

TBH, the launch of Diablo 3 in many ways is similar to the launch of WoW, when you take the problems to account. The difference the game isn't as huge and groundbreaking, rather it has refined gameplay mechanics.

Loved Diablo 2 but Diablo 3 didn't evolve much and I thought the story was poor in the 3rd one when I loved the 2nd and I hate the cartoony art style.

[QUOTE="ChubbyGuy40"]

[QUOTE="xLittlekillx"]

You point on things and click at them, using other keys to trigger a small handful of abilities. What do you mean when you say that it's solid?

xLittlekillx

If you sum it up like that, every game sounds dull. Gameplay goes beyond controls.

You're right, usually it does go beyond controls. In the case of diablo 3, I didn't really find anything there beyond the controls.

Neither could a friend of mine that would usually love blood and gibs. He just didn't find it interesting (but I don't think he gave it enough time.) I think dungeon crawlers are just an acquired taste. Playing the Wizard and Barbarian provides tons of fun, but I find the other classes boring.

Mother of God Wasdie, you should have locked the thread after your post, there's nothing more to say, only mindless drama which is what happened after your post.DanielDust

No he shouldn't have. That is the most arrogant thing possible for a mod to do, I'd totally lose respect if any mod did that in similar circumstances to this.