Weekly PC Sales: Diablo Battle Chest Hangs On, Topped by Spore Creatures and Nancy Drew
by Chris Faylor, Jul 22, 2008 7:56am PDTSales-tracking firm NPD Group today issued its list of the ten best-selling pieces of PC software in the United States across the week of July 6 to July 12, 2008.
Blizzard's Diablo Battle Chest, originally released in 2003, has now appeared on the weekly charts for three weeks straight--a feat attributed to the unveiling of Diablo 3.
Completely absent from the latest list is Funcom's mature MMO Age of Conan, which was #7 last week and #5 the week before.
- Nancy Drew: The Phantom Of Venice / Her Interactive / $18 (Average)
- Spore Creature Creator / EA Maxis / $10 (Average)
- The Sims 2 Double Deluxe / EA Maxis / $30 (Average)
- Diablo Battle Chest / Blizzard / $39 (Average)
- The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff Expansion Pack / EA Maxis / $20 (Average)
- World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest / Blizzard / $39 (Average)
- World Of Warcraft / Blizzard / $20 (Average)
- The Sims 2 FreeTime Expansion Pack / EA Maxis / $30 (Average)
- World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack / Blizzard $30 (Average)
- Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare / Infinity Ward / $50 (Average)
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1) Hasn't even the most casual of casuals already tried it?
2) You can download the client for free and subscribe online at a discount. Shit, I don't even have my WoW disks anymore, and didn't even buy the BC retail box...digital download.
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No one on the shack has this hookup?
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I always read the short-sighteted argument that because nowadays games cost a lot to produce they should also cost a lot to buy.. But then when you see blockbusters movies that costs litterally hundreds of millions to make but you can see then for less than 10 bucks, and you can even own the DVD for not much more...
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And gues what? Keep Amazon.com refresh to be first who will pre-order it! YEA ! NO LIFE!
Also it is really sad to see how the list is dominated by Blizzard and Sims, come on... there is other great games out there that deserve attention.
Also it is really sad to see how the list is dominated by Blizzard and Sims, come on... there is other great games out there that deserve attention.
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Blizzard really have the power to print moneyz.
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