Diablo 3 declared 'fastest selling PC game' ever

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  PC gaming is dead. : Opticom
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    I dug up the corpse last week just to spit on it, then stuck it back in the ground where it belongs. : David Craddock
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      There is a Necromancer in D3? : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • there is one that is an npc that starts an event. it sounds like he is the protege of the necromancer fr... : dantastic
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    PC gaming is dead * * Excluding Blizzard, GOG, Valve, all the facebook games, MMOs, etc : LoioshDwaggie
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      * excluding any games made by companies that don't shit on their customers : Pandilex
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        I would say blizzard at least farted on its fans with this latest release. : one random winner
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          And used a fucking dump truck on the Oceanic players. Was getting some good 1000+ms pings tonight.. awes... : biofrog
          • Hell, I'm in amurrrca and I'm still pinging a nice healthy 400ms steadily, frequent spikes to 500ms+ Bor... : Ebu
          • Getting > 2000 ms in Europe too, so waah waah on you. : Curike
        • Lol, if you think the internet comprises 100% of reality, maybe. : bill crystals
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      Actually, we elitists don't count the facebook games either. : Lucien Irenicus
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        I only count indie games made by starving college students that haven't bathed in 5 months : Mecha Tofu Pirate
        • But they cannot be assholes * (Fez guy) unless they're assholes to major publishers (Jonathon Blow). : LoioshDwaggie
        • Another fan of Cactus I see! : Memphis-Ahn
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    Not dead, just on life-support. A few titles like this one should help reinvigorate it ... : Keefinator
    • No, it's dead! : Opticom
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      It's on online-support.... : utgaardsloke
      • ROFL! : DragonSire
    • Our sense of entitlement to software forced companies to make games with dollar and cents in mind instead... : beef2187
    • It's only mostly dead. : mindmann
    • A few titties usually invigorate me too. : Lucien Irenicus
    • It's just shifted to having more smaller budget indie games instead of big budget ones like on consoles. ... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
    • Not dead. Just resting. : CRasterImage
    • ahahaa. One of us, one of us! : MercFox1
  • Zombie dogs are the fears and dreams of console players. : Vincenoir
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    I'm not dead! I feel happy! : PCGaming : Arcanum
    • *clubs you in the head* : Wolfslice
  • You must have an old crappy PC that cant play current games.... : Dark Drakonis
  • That makes me think I haven't heard a developer say that in a year or so. : guigr
  • PC gaming is dead... long live PC gaming! : Gwyndion
  • If all the games we will be getting in the future are Starcraft, Diablo, WoW and their ilk it might as we... : abjectblitz
  • PC gaming is the worst kind of gaming except for all the other kinds. : SpaecKow
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  I wonder if this number includes the "units" sold BEFORE launch by pre-purchasing digitally on bnet. : Wikus Van De Merwe
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    why? the people who preordered would have bought it in the first day if there weren't preorders anyway. : umegastar
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      a lot of people got the game for free by simply subscribing to WoW : logan
      • thats in the story : Slowtreme
• That is an insane number. There's a Wiki list on best selling PC games and Diablo 2 is listed as 4 millio... : sonicdeathwalrus
• There's something magical about the Diablo brand. I've had several friends who have all but given up on g... : ramshot
• Hot damn, that's a lot of loot! : Rehevkor
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  As soon as lists of sales start counting digital sales like those on Steam, then headlines like this will... : Yumcheese
  • This headline still matters. Your post, not so much. : ateam311
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  http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5152409863?page=1 Thank you Blizzard, we shall continue trustin... : Vogerl
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    The funny thing is you think it matters a good goddamn. You want the same level of security (in complexi... : arioch
    • "Strong" passwords are a scam. Nobody brute forces passwords in a field rife with keyloggers and troja... : arioch
  • You get about 5.1 bits of entropy per character using a case insensitive alpha numeric symbol set. You g... : walker270
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  but.... piracy! : asianwaste
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    Diablo 3 is thus far unpirateable due to it's always on architecture. So.... : lord cecil
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      for now, yeah. there were bootleg WoW servers at some point (several years ago), so someone will undo... : gokart.
      • That will be very significantly harder with D3 than with WoW and at the end of the process they'll have a... : Herman Toothrot
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        They were and are garbage and can not be compared to real servers in any way shape or form. : bipolar
        • They were ok, the game generally worked. The biggest issue is that none of the WoW community exists on t... : Herman Toothrot
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    If anything Diablo shows that extremely aggressive DRM is a good thing for sales!

    May 23, 2012 5:20pm PDT
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    If anything Diablo shows that extremely aggressive DRM is a good thing for sales! : OverloadUT
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      If anything Diablo shows Diablo is a good thing for sales! : MercFox1
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        Diablo shows that the key to a successful PC game is using 3 vowels in the game title. : OverloadUT
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          The key to Diablo sales is to say Diablo five times in a row. Diablo Diablo Diablo Diablo Diablo : MercFox1
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            Shit I did that thing where I looked at a word too much and now the spelling of it looks weird. : MercFox1
            • Semantic satiation. Although that's more about the meaning of the word. : Herman Toothrot
    • Or good games from a great company will sell! : TheNiXXeD
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  Good news I guess. But no Steam = no buy... : scary_monster
  • I was in the same boat, but I was surprised how easy battle.net is to use. Launch game> login> play>pro... : Strid3rtheGreat
  • Thats just ignorant. : TEXIT
  • battle.net is basically Blizzard's own version of Steam for their own games : Patch-e
  • ok : jonin
  • No battle.net = no buy : Ellissd
  • Why do you people exist? : Happy Doodle Muffin
  • I love Steam as much as the next guy and always choose it over other alternatives when given the option, ... : riptyde
  • You found the only way to win the game, sir. Hold your head high. : .sticks.
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    you're fucking retarded. anyone that says that is. Don't be a fucking idiot and get out of your idiotchai... : moshman
    • Take it easy. I like owning games on Steam. Do you mind? Besides, I'm not really interested in these kin... : scary_monster
  • https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2219-YDJV-5557 : frib
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  I'll pick it up when it's 5.99 in the "bargain bin".. guess I'll be waiting a looooong ass time with the ... : techx4
  • Diablo 2 is still $20, diablo 1 $10, so, yeah, I guess you'll be cold in the ground before D3 get's below... : Yxalitis
  • I kind of like that. I feel good about my day-one purchase. No hesitation, guilt, or remorse. : Ellissd
  • Good luck with that. Diablo 6 will be out before that mofo drops below $20 : PenicillinX57
  • please look at me. here pay me attention lawls : shirif
  • If you buy it now, play it for 10 years, you will have enjoyed a game that will be getting support and up... : Patch-e
  • You can get TL2 for $20 which will give you a pretty fun time. : aethyr
  • thanks for posting : JINKY
  • Sweet we'll see you on D3 in 30-40 years. : Zuchu
• im stil pissed that i bought diablo 2 full price and then when I went to find it a few years ago the cd k... : mista mista
• Amazing. PC gaming is dead, no steam no buy and I'll buy it in the bargain bin all in the same fucking t... : c0ucheh
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  It's it as awesome as it sounds? I never played the first two, so I didn't buy this one. : rick
  • Basically, if you don't like the dungeon crawler (or action RPG) genre then you won't like it. Those peep... : drac01
  • I never played one and yes. : Barleywine
  • Try the starter edition first. It is fairly meh. : Cottc Cid
  • It is pretty awesome. D2 was more piece of art>game. A social experience where one could learn real li... : beef2187
• Crack sells. Story at 10. : usmcmueller
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  I would hope no one's surprised about this, D3 has been my most anticipated game for years and years. : hypn0t1c
  • Same here, yet it was so easy to pass up. I'll see you in hell diablo 3. : beef2187
  • It was? I don't know anyone that owns a PC that bought this game and we all grew up playing Diablo. Mus... : rtricoche