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... err... Blizzard is terrible!

... just trying to fit in.

Lmao,I know right? It's great wacthing all the jelly haters pile in everytime BE posts something.

The negative hype was certainly overdone,

No kidding. D2 fanboys crying cause the game was not a HD clone. Yeah the games had a few minor issues ( Yes, MINOR ) people just blow them up to make it seem worst because they are digging for any old bone to toss at the game.

Makes me wonder? Dont you guys have a GED test to perp for? Shouldnt waste you life complaning about D3. After all you have that PoS re-hash called path of exile to look forward to, Too bad its a free2play so you know its going to be buy to win with a cash shop. No thanks.

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That's well-said. The hysteria surrounding Diablo 3's "failure" is entirely out of proportion with the quality of the game which was objectively excellent out of the gate.

I think you need to look up the word objective. There is no yardstick that could be taken as a measure of the game being objectively excellent on release. Sales are not a good indication of this, since as was said, literally the majority of those sales happened in the first 1 week. Blizzard themselves beat around the bush and say without saying that they have come a long way and have a long way to go.

The negative hype was certainly overdone, but to call the release product anything but a disappointment is objectively biased.

The MetaCritic score for the game at launch is 88. The user score of course is 3.8 because of raging fanboys sabotaging the game's score, which is sort of case in point.

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Diablo III has now passed StarCraft in sales and is tied with Half-Life 2 according to the Wikipedia list... that's legendary.

Hey, banned botters have to get new doors into RMAH.

What truly is sad is that the first post here got three thumbs up.

It really is telling, though. It's more popular to not be able to think clearly and just spout hatred than it is to be factually-accurate. People don't like facts. They like controversy. Why be reasonable and educated when you can be sensationalist?

Blizzard is living on past glories. Diablo 3 was a great game, right until the point that mattered the most, re-playability. It became incredible fruitive. Gearing up using AH cause what drops for one personally was almost exclusively useless. Not to mention, everyone went for same stats cause the talent system was so poorly designed that everyone needed the same stats. The game failed where it mattered.

As for wow subs, I know several old guildies that still play, mostly it's because they have invested so much time into the game they do not want to start over in a new game. They all are dissappointed of the lack of content and innovation for a sub game, but they are also addicted. Pandarian was a cold turkey for me, never bought it, never will. I bought Diablo 3, played over 1000 hours, and my toons are weak and uninteresting, waste of time and I stopped playing that long ago.

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Blizzard is living on past glories. Diablo 3 was a great game, right until the point that mattered the most, re-playability. It became incredible fruitive. Gearing up using AH cause what drops for one personally was almost exclusively useless. Not to mention, everyone went for same stats cause the talent system was so poorly designed that everyone needed the same stats. The game failed where it mattered.

As for wow subs, I know several old guildies that still play, mostly it's because they have invested so much time into the game they do not want to start over in a new game. They all are dissappointed of the lack of content and innovation for a sub game, but they are also addicted. Pandarian was a cold turkey for me, never bought it, never will. I bought Diablo 3, played over 1000 hours, and my toons are weak and uninteresting, waste of time and I stopped playing that long ago.

The game has no re-playability. All characters are build the same with 1 or 2 seconds of skills. You just get the most DPS weapon, bluff main str, bluff resist/life. That's it.

After all you have that PoS re-hash called path of exile to look forward to, Too bad its a free2play so you know its going to be buy to win with a cash shop. No thanks.

And D3 was differrent than this model? play and have fun, but never expect your toon to excel unless you use the RMAH, either through incredible redunt farming and selling of semi crap to accumulate enough gold to buy 1 item, or do what all the cool kids did, buy it with cash.

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After all you have that PoS re-hash called path of exile to look forward to, Too bad its a free2play so you know its going to be buy to win with a cash shop. No thanks.

And D2 was differrent than this model? play and have fun, but never expect your toon to excel unless you use the trading sites, either through incredible redunt farming and selling of semi crap to accumulate enough SoJs to buy 1 item, or do what all the cool kids did, buy it with cash.

fixed that for you

"Diablo III Has Sold Over 12 Million Copies"

bull-honkey. 12 million people did not PURCHASE a copy, MILLIONS of owners got their copy FREE from the AP.
every time i see this quote i lose a little more respect for the company.

bull-honkey. 12 million people did not PURCHASE a copy, MILLIONS of owners got their copy FREE from the AP.
every time i see this quote i lose a little more respect for the company.

I'll look forward to your lawsuit accusing Activision of deceiving its shareholders.

No PVP yet, YOU CANT BE SERIOUS.

All this whinning about how bad diablo III is and complaining about its downfalls is pathetic. Seems no one ever just says, "thank you BLIZZARD for making yet another epic game regardless of its flaws." Thank you BLIZZARD for continuing to work with the online community regardless of so many members raging over anything you do regardless if it's what the majority of the community wants or not. Remember BLIZZARD these negative members complaining make up probably 1% or less of the DIABLO III fan base. Keep up the good work and continue to work on the few flaws that exist.

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Diablo III was the #1 best-selling PC game at retail, breaking PC game sales records with more than 12 million copies sold worldwide through December 31, 2012

1) Why do they bother to bring up this number? The only number that matters is how sales continued after about a month from release. Before that everyone was picking this up under the understandable expectation that this game would have been good considering the franchise history.

As I recall, Diablo III sold 10 million copies in the initial release rush.

Which means it sold another 2 million copies after that.

Which means it sold more copies than most games manage to sell at all even after (a) all the jonesing fans had picked up their copy at launch, and ( the noisy whining minority had spilled epic floods of tears telling everyone how much they hated it.

Many of the "sold" are bot accounts. Of course, bot die down now. Not because Blizzard took action against bot, it is because it is no longer profitable.

I am sure you see botter that had hundreds if not thousands of bot running at once. That just 1 botter.

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Quote from Catalept

... err... Blizzard is terrible!

... just trying to fit in.

Lmao,I know right? It's great wacthing all the jelly haters pile in everytime BE posts something.

The negative hype was certainly overdone,

No kidding. D2 fanboys crying cause the game was not a HD clone. Yeah the games had a few minor issues ( Yes, MINOR ) people just blow them up to make it seem worst because they are digging for any old bone to toss at the game.

Makes me wonder? Dont you guys have a GED test to perp for? Shouldnt waste you life complaning about D3. After all you have that PoS re-hash called path of exile to look forward to, Too bad its a free2play so you know its going to be buy to win with a cash shop. No thanks.

How is having no PvP half year after the game was released a minor issue? after they teased us with videos of it before release
The fact that the week after release was a total disaster with terrible lag and a lot of server downtime.
About the game? now this is subjective but why making it have 4 dificulties if dying in normal mode was imposible and the 4 acts were a tutorial, the whole campain and story was a tutorial, sure you can play the same thing 3 more times for harder challenges but the fact that you kill Diablo and see all the story without even trying annoyed me.
I like Diablo and Blizzard but you cannot be so blind and call all those poorly made desicions minor that only makes you a fanboy who will keep praising blizzard and theirs games without seeing their flaws.

The fact that they call this game a success is insulting

Funny when you think about it, there was no mention durring the confrence call of the doom and gloom that is currently floating around the forums... Makes you wonder. Maybe, by an odd chance the investors could care less about idiots that talk trash about a game that could quite possible be considered the most successful PC game in history... Hmmmm.....