Diablo III Sells 3.5 Million Copies In its First Day Alone

I'll wait until they're no longer limiting supply to retail and thus forcing people to buy it from their ridiculously overpriced online store.  Sold out everywhere in the UK and I have a feeling that was intentional. If you need an internet connection to play it regardless, I doubt they expected it to cost them many sales and it guaranteed a larger return from people buying it through their own store. 
 
Once the game is around £35 or less I'll hop on, but not before. 

And how many clicks were made during those first 24 hours? That's the real question.

A Octillion? A Septendecillion? A googolplex?

@Vitor said:

Sold out everywhere in the UK and I have a feeling that was intentional. If you need an internet connection to play it regardless, I doubt they expected it to cost them many sales and it guaranteed a larger return from people buying it through their own store. Once the game is around £35 or less I'll hop on, but not before.

always online drm, here we come!

@yinstarrunner said:

PC gaming is dead, you guys.

You're dead

People claiming that gamers sold out to DRM need to really get a reality check. The solution of "if you don't support DRM then don't buy the developers games" is a crazy one. And what then? Just not enjoy really good games because they have a shitty system built into them? You think 4 million people worldwide could band together somehow and agree to boycott this game by not buying it because of DRM? That's never going to happen, ever. You can tell all your friends to protest and it'll just be you and maybe 15 of your buds that are just not playing the game while the world around you is hyping it up. Despite the gaming press trying to pawn this issue off on consumers it's they that can actually make a difference. As much as all serious game journalists hate Metacritic they can use it against shitty ideas like this. Score games low because of these sort of restrictions, lower the overall Metacritic scores for titles - publishers will listen to that a lot more than some gamer protests. Yet here we are, the guys at GB think DRM is a shitty idea, yet hey, 5/5 not a big deal. So stop blaming regular folk that just want to play a game and are forced to endure crappy systems and start blaming gaming press that doesn't speak up about in - despite the fact that unlike the everyday voiceless consumer, they get to meet and speak with these game developers on an at least semi regular basis.

@Vitor said:

Once the game is around £35 or less I'll hop on, but not before.

I got my copy for £27 from amazon.

You sir, need to learn how to buy games that aren't on steam.

Also, this game won't drop in price (on the blizzard store) for about 2 years, then it will stay at that price forever after.

And another thing! The DRM in this game actually works. You can't pirate the fucker, mission accomplished.

@Christoffer said:

And how many clicks were made during those first 24 hours? That's the real question.

A Octillion? A Septendecillion? A googolplex?

its like millions cried out in joy for diablo 3 and were suddenly silenced...

*error 37*

@AlisterCat said:

@phrosnite said:

Pity the game is a disappointment.

A pity for you. I'm having a great time over here.

I am too man. I really think the people shit talking Diablo have no idea what they're talking about. I think it's better than Diablo 1 and 2 in every category. People's initial reaction is always to flame a big game that's been talked about for a long time. It is what it is.. It's Diablo, and it's a damn good version of Diablo at that.

@chiablo: Well, considering that WoW is essentially an expanded, online version of Diablo II, that is not a surprise.

Crazy. I'd be interested to know (not that there's a way to find out) what percentage of those 3.5 million people have been vocal about the DRM.

@big_jon said:

And yet I could still give no less shit then I already do about it.

Then get lost

Buncha complainers up in here. Diablo III is GREAT. I fucking love this game. And who cares about the DRM? Everyone that plays PC games is always online anyways.

@Humanity: It's twenty doz you can have your cake and eat it too, especially on pc.

@WinterSnowblind said:

It's not like the requirement of being connected to the internet at all times is there simply for DRM, it's to stop people from hacking and ruining the online experience for all involved (and to keep the auction house economy stable).

It's there exclusively for DRM. How does no single-player stop people from hacking in multiplayer?

Translation for A LOT of publishers and developers:
 
''Always online DRM works!"

@mmzOne said:

@CaLe said:

Do people still LAN?

Yes.

and do people still LAN without internet?

@Ravenlight: This is obviously biased. But in my book Blizzard has done so much good that its very easy to overlook things like DRM.... I would much rather have non hacked saves all over the place.

Now if you want to talk about AC2's single player that is in no way tied to Multiplayer coming from a publisher that is notorious for shitty DRM... then we can talk.

<Goes back to playing Diablo>

@Jimbo

That many copies for a PC game is a game-changer, for better or worse.  
 
If it makes devs/publishers consider making PC exclusives which wouldn't otherwise have been made, then that's great.  If it means games which we'd have been getting anyway will now have always-online DRM shoehorned into them then that's sucky.  If it legitimises a 'release it broken and fix it later' mentality then that would be unfortunate too - nobody should get the free pass Blizzard has been given for that.
 
Bit of a mixed bag.

So much ignorance in this post.

@WinterSnowblind said:

@Bakumatsu said:

This just proves that people couldn't care less for a drm that needs to be always online or, at least, it seems that way. Just keep supporting games that have this type of drm and, in the future, all games, single player or not, will have a persisten internet connection.

Diablo is more or less an online game. It's not like the requirement of being connected to the internet at all times is there simply for DRM, it's to stop people from hacking and ruining the online experience for all involved (and to keep the auction house economy stable). I don't think you need to worry about actual single player games requiring internet connections in the near future.

The amount of paranoia/hate D3 is getting because of such trivial things is pretty silly. If you want to argue that it shouldn't be a requirement, fine, I can even agree to that. But this isn't the downfall of civilization or gaming.

You're exactly right. I've been trying to explain this for weeks. It seems like such an easy concept to understand, but no one gets it. I remember Diablo II when they didn't require that and the online game was completely broken. People look back on it with this sense of nostalgia. I do as well, to an extent. But the game wasn't perfect.

Also, to those who QQ about the "lack of customization in talent builds"; yes, there aren't skill points to dump on skills of your choosing anymore. You no longer have the option of unloading 20 points on frozen orb and 1 shotting everything. That doesn't mean you can't chose a specific playing style for your class. My build is a Ice Wizard. I use Ice spells that feed off of each other for additional dps. Because of the rune combinations and passive abilities, you have multiple build options based on how you want to play. There are multiple right answers, multiple wrong answers. The only difference is now you don't have to make a new character when you screw everything up. Personally, I think it was a wise decision. Most people wouldn't start over again.. They would rage quit.

@djaoni said:

@WinterSnowblind said:

It's not like the requirement of being connected to the internet at all times is there simply for DRM, it's to stop people from hacking and ruining the online experience for all involved (and to keep the auction house economy stable).

It's there exclusively for DRM. How does no single-player stop people from hacking in multiplayer?

Yeah, I think a single player mode would have been nice. They clearly didn't think it was a priority though, and you could just as well argue that requiring to be online for Old Republic or WoW is DRM.

This is literally a non-issue.

Disgusting.

Well, look at that. It seems fucking nobody cares that you have to log in to a server.

I really have no idea what everyone is complaining about. Nobody I know who has the game would ever want to play it single player.

@gaminginpublic said:

@big_jon said:

And yet I could still give no less shit then I already do about it.

Then get lost

You first, douche.

32 posts and a stock avatar and you're telling me to get lost?

@Alex said:

Eventually! When I actually have time to play it...

Sounds about right.

I don't have my list of the fastest-selling PC games of all time handy, but I'll just assume that Blizzard did its homework before making that claim.

Good work. You could have spent ten seconds looking that up, but why do that when you can just not and then spend twenty seconds writing a sentence explaining why you didn't?

@WinterSnowblind said:

@djaoni said:

@WinterSnowblind said:

It's not like the requirement of being connected to the internet at all times is there simply for DRM, it's to stop people from hacking and ruining the online experience for all involved (and to keep the auction house economy stable).

It's there exclusively for DRM. How does no single-player stop people from hacking in multiplayer?

Yeah, I think a single player mode would have been nice. They clearly didn't think it was a priority though, and you could just as well argue that requiring to be online for Old Republic or WoW is DRM.

This is literally a non-issue.

I never claimed it was an issue. Just saying that it's there for DRM, and doesn't really help the multiplayer. You couldn't play your closed battle.net characters in single-player, and that's the system it should've used regardless if anyone thinks it's an issue or not.

@gaminginpublic said:

You're exactly right. I've been trying to explain this for weeks. It seems like such an easy concept to understand, but no one gets it. I remember Diablo II when they didn't require that and the online game was completely broken. People look back on it with this sense of nostalgia. I do as well, to an extent. But the game wasn't perfect.

What are you talking about?

@big_jon said:

@gaminginpublic said:

@big_jon said:

And yet I could still give no less shit then I already do about it.

Then get lost

You first, douche.

32 posts and a stock avatar and you're telling me to get lost?

LOL.. Whose the douche now? I've been using Giantbomb for years, I just recently decided to start commenting on it. Complaining about my avatar... Kind of speaks for itself.

On Act 4 Hell... looking forward to the faceroll that is Inferno.

As a Witchdoctor.

I love this game.

@gaminginpublic said:

@AlisterCat said:

@phrosnite said:

Pity the game is a disappointment.

A pity for you. I'm having a great time over here.

I am too man. I really think the people shit talking Diablo have no idea what they're talking about. I think it's better than Diablo 1 and 2 in every category. People's initial reaction is always to flame a big game that's been talked about for a long time. It is what it is.. It's Diablo, and it's a damn good version of Diablo at that.

Diablo 3 is better than D1 or D2? Of course it is. The problem is that that Diablo 3 is not better than the other dungeon crawlers that actually improved the D2 formula.

Disappointing doesn't mean bad, you know. You noobs(Brad included) should go and play some other dugeon crawlers aside from D2.

Diablo 3 is 4/5. Nothing special. Just another game in the genre.

@gaminginpublic said:

@AlisterCat said:

@phrosnite said:

Pity the game is a disappointment.

A pity for you. I'm having a great time over here.

I am too man. I really think the people shit talking Diablo have no idea what they're talking about. I think it's better than Diablo 1 and 2 in every category. People's initial reaction is always to flame a big game that's been talked about for a long time. It is what it is.. It's Diablo, and it's a damn good version of Diablo at that.

Diablo 3 is better than D1 or D2? Of course it is. The problem is that that Diablo 3 is not better than the other dungeon crawlers that actually improved the D2 formula.

Disappointing doesn't mean bad, you know. You noobs(Brad included) should go and play some other dugeon crawlers aside from D2.

Diablo 3 is 4/5. Nothing special. Just another game in the genre.

@phrosnite: Want to tell those of us who don't know what these supposedly greater games are so some of us can, you know, play them and make our own minds up?

Less fun than just arguing I suppose.

@phrosnite said:

@gaminginpublic said:

@AlisterCat said:

@phrosnite said:

Pity the game is a disappointment.

A pity for you. I'm having a great time over here.

I am too man. I really think the people shit talking Diablo have no idea what they're talking about. I think it's better than Diablo 1 and 2 in every category. People's initial reaction is always to flame a big game that's been talked about for a long time. It is what it is.. It's Diablo, and it's a damn good version of Diablo at that.

Diablo 3 is better than D1 or D2? Of course it is. The problem is that that Diablo 3 is not better than the other dungeon crawlers that actually improved the D2 formula.

Disappointing doesn't mean bad, you know. You noobs(Brad included) should go and play some other dugeon crawlers aside from D2.

Diablo 3 is 4/5. Nothing special. Just another game in the genre.

Direct me to them. I've played plenty of RPGs and only Torchlight is anything like Diablo. Torchlight is a blatent ripoff off of Diablo and it isn't afraid to show it either. Torchlight is nothing more than Diablo without a story or replay value. Don't get me wrong though, I enjoyed playing Torchlight through, but I wouldn't play it again.

I like Diablo because Diablo is Diablo. It's the first game of it's kind that plays anything like it does and that's specifically why I like it. I like other RPGS for other reasons, like Skyrim and Witcher 2 for example.

Like I said though, direct me to these dungeon crawlers and I'll decide for myself. I'm open minded.

@artgarcrunkle: I don't know what that means but if you're saying that you can pirate the game and have fun while showing the company you don't appreciate their DRM stuff then no thanks I rather just buy the game.

@gaminginpublic: @blueduck: @budgietheii:

The fact that you don't know which dungeon crawlers I'm talking about shows me that you don't know shit. Shut up. Don't reply to people who say bad things about Diablo 3. Go play your Diablo 3 instead of defending it so furiously.

@gaminginpublic: @blueduck: @budgietheii:

The fact that you don't know which dungeon crawlers I'm talking about shows me that you don't know shit. Shut up. Don't reply to people who say bad things about Diablo 3. Go play your Diablo 3 instead of defending it so furiously.

I guess Diablo 3 has made Blizzard...

I couldn't resist.

Also, over 4 million people having access to D3 on day one, no wonder they had problems.

So the Blizzard offices probably have the gold coin sound going off about every second I guess.

Yep my local store ran out of physical copies in a couple of days. Now they have to wait for the next shipment ordered.

Definately the exact magnitude of demand was a bit unexpected. Hence the servers buckling under day 1 rush. Copies are shipped and you expect only a certain % to sell within the first day or week which they undershot.

Self explanatory launch day issues ensue.

@kollay said:

On Act 4 Hell... looking forward to the faceroll that is Inferno.

As a Witchdoctor.

I love this game.

Is Hell like Diablo 2 hell where every monster has some sort of immunity? And if so, how do they handle Inferno?

This is why I love Giantbomb. I no longer want to play this game.

@CaLe said:

@Dragon_Fire said:

I'm guessing no one even cares about online all the time DRM, or the lack of LAN & offline singleplayer?

Do people still LAN?

Not really, but any excuse.

Really? Fastest selling PC game of all time?

Didnt expect this form a loot grind game.

@phrosnite said:

@gaminginpublic: @blueduck: @budgietheii:

The fact that you don't know which dungeon crawlers I'm talking about shows me that you don't know shit. Shut up. Don't reply to people who say bad things about Diablo 3. Go play your Diablo 3 instead of defending it so furiously.

Or, you know, they were asking a legit question? The fact that you didn't supply a single name in either the post they were referring to or in your response to them tells me that you probably don't know what those games are yourself. To react so violently to a very simple question that you prompted them into asking by being vague in the first place would seem to say that you don't know what you're talking about and just don't want to believe that Diablo 3 could possibly be a good game (either because you can't afford it, because you don't want to like it, because you can't play it, because you don't see what other people see and it makes you angry, whatever.)

@big_jon said:

@gaminginpublic said:

@big_jon said:

And yet I could still give no less shit then I already do about it.

Then get lost

You first, douche.

32 posts and a stock avatar and you're telling me to get lost?

Yes, because his post count and avatar are entirely relevant. He better stroke that forum-cock harder or he's never going to get any respect around here.

Man, the people in this comment section really need to chill out. Glad to see this game be very successful, it seems like it was well worth the wait.

@LiquidPenguins said:

Diablo 4 coming November 2013

This is Blizzard we're talking about so your joke doesn't make any sense.

@phrosnite said:

@gaminginpublic: @blueduck: @budgietheii:

The fact that you don't know which dungeon crawlers I'm talking about shows me that you don't know shit. Shut up. Don't reply to people who say bad things about Diablo 3. Go play your Diablo 3 instead of defending it so furiously.

I know quite a bit about games.. We're all just asking you to simply name a few games as examples. You instead chose to be immature and deflect the question.

@Octaslash said:

@big_jon said:

@gaminginpublic said:

@big_jon said:

And yet I could still give no less shit then I already do about it.

Then get lost

You first, douche.

32 posts and a stock avatar and you're telling me to get lost?

Yes, because his post count and avatar are entirely relevant. He better stroke that forum-cock harder or he's never going to get any respect around here.

hahahahahahaha big_jon, how does it feel to be on fire, because you sir, are now turning on a spit over an open flame.

YO, VIDEOGAMES!

YO, INTERNET!

@Crono said:

@LiquidPenguins said:

Diablo 4 coming November 2013

This is Blizzard we're talking about so your joke doesn't make any sense.

I believe he may be referencing the Activision side of Blizzard.