How long did you expect a single item to remain at #1 for, exactly?
Stepped right away from QQ/Fanboi warfare into logical/insane wars.
Obligatory edit: It even says right at the top of the page "Our most popular products based on sales. Updated hourly." That should clue you in as to how their "ranking" is based and why it's completely irrelevant, at all.
It's true guys, jury is in. Amazon is the only place you can buy Diablo 3 and it's no longer the top selling PC/Hardware item. Time to pack it up and uninstall.
Did you know that The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd stayed on the charts for 741 weeks starting in 1973 and ending in 1988? It's, by far, the best performance any single album has had on the charts.
I hear that Pink Floyd sucks because The Dark Side of the Moon is no longer charting according to Billboard. Sorry to bear bad news guys, but if you like Pink Floyd you're fanboys!
Did you know that The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd stayed on the charts for 741 weeks starting in 1973 and ending in 1988? It's, by far, the best performance any single album has had on the charts.
I hear that Pink Floyd sucks because The Dark Side of the Moon is no longer charting according to Billboard. Sorry to bear bad news guys, but if you like Pink Floyd you're fanboys!
Look at most companies on the market, everything is down because the Euro is going to crash... Also markets are not efficient and are poor indicators of actual performance. I'd explain accounting theory to you but its very long... start here and get back to me when you know what your talking about.
If I may step back from the QQ/fanboi wars for a second... the jury has come in.
Diablo III lasted five weeks as #1 on the amazon charts, only to get replaced by.... wait for it....
Dragon Age?!?
If the idea was to drive people back to WoW, where they paid their sub like good shee... err... panda.... Mission Accomplished!
You realize it's based on volume of sales, right?
How long did you expect a single item to remain at #1 for, exactly?
Stepped right away from QQ/Fanboi warfare into logical/insane wars.
Obligatory edit: It even says right at the top of the page "Our most popular products based on sales. Updated hourly." That should clue you in as to how their "ranking" is based and why it's completely irrelevant, at all.
People didn't start bitching very quickly after Skyrim's release about how so many things were fucked up. Every game has bugs so the Skyrim bugs are not included, especially since most of them are fixed. I'm talking about gameplay. That's the real point here. Games like Skyrim and the two more recent Batman games will continue to sell because they are good as is. Diablo did well based off monumental hype and now its true colors are showing.
Quoting WoW expansion sales do NOT apply here because WoW is all about racing to level cap and then realizing that there's nothing to do at end game except raid which is a far smaller playerbase than those that are just levelling. Diablo is basically the same from start to finish unlike WoW so you wouldn't even start playing Diablo unless you were into farming.
Quoting WoW expansion sales do NOT apply here because WoW is all about racing to level cap and then realizing that there's nothing to do at end game except raid which is a far smaller playerbase than those that are just levelling. Diablo is basically the same from start to finish unlike WoW so you wouldn't even start playing Diablo unless you were into farming.
You know stocks aren't representative of just a single game right? It wasn't sales it was stocks. It was just showing the effect post release de-hyping has.
Also you know the majority of people who played D2 probably never farmed Hell either right? WoW has more of an endgame than Diablo (calm down I'm not saying it's better, that's all preference, I prefer Diablo). WoW's endgame is the same as a Diablo games. PvP/Farm items. Except in WoW you do it through raiding more so than solo play. It's still a gear treadmill.
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Diablo III lasted five weeks as #1 on the amazon charts, only to get replaced by.... wait for it....
Dragon Age?!?
If the idea was to drive people back to WoW, where they paid their sub like good shee... err... panda.... Mission Accomplished!
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Video-Games-PC-Hardware/zgbs/videogames/229575
Enough for me.
Ha. Bagstone.
You realize it's based on volume of sales, right?
How long did you expect a single item to remain at #1 for, exactly?
Stepped right away from QQ/Fanboi warfare into logical/insane wars.
Obligatory edit: It even says right at the top of the page "Our most popular products based on sales. Updated hourly." That should clue you in as to how their "ranking" is based and why it's completely irrelevant, at all.
Can you trolls find a new schtick?
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Thumbs way up.
Did you know that The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd stayed on the charts for 741 weeks starting in 1973 and ending in 1988? It's, by far, the best performance any single album has had on the charts.
I hear that Pink Floyd sucks because The Dark Side of the Moon is no longer charting according to Billboard. Sorry to bear bad news guys, but if you like Pink Floyd you're fanboys!
Pink Floyd is totally dead.
/;p
isnt it weird how so many game companies ruin sequels ?
RIP Neverwinter nights
or the triquel in a series ? ( the third one)
RIP Fallout
What happened when people actually played it?
There's QQing, and then there are http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=ATVI+Interactive#symbol=atvi;range=3m;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined; facts.
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Look at most companies on the market, everything is down because the Euro is going to crash... Also markets are not efficient and are poor indicators of actual performance. I'd explain accounting theory to you but its very long... start here and get back to me when you know what your talking about.
http://www.amazon.ca...t/dp/0132072866
Oh to also counter your "fact" I guess Enron was a successful company because it's stocks were such a valid point of measurement. Thanks for coming.
I'm curious, what is this fact?
The fact that stocks sell higher when there is hype? Or that once the hype is down they lower again?
Just like when Cataclysm released they went up then fell in the 1 month 11 days after?
http://finance.yahoo...urce=undefined;
Or WOTLK
http://finance.yahoo...urce=undefined;
Or BC
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=ATVI+Interactive#symbol=atvi;range=20070116,20070227;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;
Did any of that stop WoW from being a successful game? No. Not to mention the many other factors that come into stocks rising and falling.
Also weighing heavy on the stock is Vivendi and the problems they are having with investors.
You knock off this reason and logic BS, good sir
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Quoting WoW expansion sales do NOT apply here because WoW is all about racing to level cap and then realizing that there's nothing to do at end game except raid which is a far smaller playerbase than those that are just levelling. Diablo is basically the same from start to finish unlike WoW so you wouldn't even start playing Diablo unless you were into farming.
Ironically, it's DA 2 that beat D3
Well as someone else pointed out it's updated based on hourly sales. Also the game is 5$ come on. I'd buy frogger again probably for 5$
You know stocks aren't representative of just a single game right? It wasn't sales it was stocks. It was just showing the effect post release de-hyping has.
Also you know the majority of people who played D2 probably never farmed Hell either right? WoW has more of an endgame than Diablo (calm down I'm not saying it's better, that's all preference, I prefer Diablo). WoW's endgame is the same as a Diablo games. PvP/Farm items. Except in WoW you do it through raiding more so than solo play. It's still a gear treadmill.