All though I love all types of games, my love for PC games (Blizzard's in particular) is unmatched, so allow me to go off the console road for a minute. We are weeks away from what could possibly be one of the biggest video game announcements we have seen in years. Allow me to explain.We have been counting down the days to Diablo 3 since Diablo 2 was released on June 29th, 2000, and the expansion, Diablo 2: LoD June 29th 2001. In the recent months Blizzard has gone out of its way to drive the Diablo fan base insane with slight hints of a new announcement that they are going to make another.... announcement on the weekend of June 29th, 2008 at the Blizzard WWI. Does that date look familiar? Yeah maybe because its the 7 and 8 year anniversary's of the 2nd Diablo.
The Diablo fan base is massive, so it is easy to understand why hundreds of thousands of fans scour the Internet daily, even hourly looking for any update, or leaked information leading up to the weeks before Blizzards announcement. The best site with the most up to date information to check out can be found at http://www.diablofans.com/ . No one can officially say for sure IF Blizzard will announce Diablo 3 next weekend, but with all of the recent teases and the anniversary of the games release coming up I am willing to more than guarantee the announcement at the WWI. Blizzard also used the 10 year to the day anniversary routine to announce Starcraft II just last year.
If you don't believe in Blizzard's anniversary announcement theory then take in to account the all so powerful dollar bill. Blizzard has what can possibly be described as a strangle hold on the PC gaming industry of almost all Genre's except the FPS market. With World of Warcraft still completely dominating the MMO market you'd be ignorant to even consider that any future MMO dated before 2015 will put more than a nick in WoW's dominance of the MMO industry. Starcraft, yes the 1 year old Starcraft, still accounts for over 79% of all Real Time Strategy game time logged and although you don't have to pay to play, it still shows dominance of the RTS industry. Oh yeah and that little game Starcraft II on the horizon might have something to say about the other 21%. Diablo still has hundreds of thousands of players logging on Battlenet every day to play, and a majority are not Starcraft or Warcraft players. These stragglers combined with the other Diablo fans spread out all over the gaming world make up another huge chunk of the PC gaming industry and Blizzard has every reason $$.... in the world to make a Diablo III.
Wrath of the Lich King, and Starcraft II have the other 2 franchises covered leaving 2 options, a Diablo game, or a complete new franchise Lost Vikings Online???... No... So if you want to think that Blizzard's big announcement that *coincidentally* falls on the anniversary of D2, and D2: LOD is not going to be Diablo III go right ahead, but you wont stop me from believing.
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Diablo 2 was one of my favorite games to date. I haven't played it in awhile...maybe it's time to dust off the box. I hope Blizzard announces it; that would be pimp.
You say one of the biggest announcements we've seen.
Just out of curiosity, how did Diablo do comparitively to some of the other big titles in video games, as a franchise?
Such as:
Halo
Grand Theft Auto
Mario
Metroid
Metal Gear Solid
Gran Turismo
Half Life
Battlefield
Call of Duty
Warcraft
Starcraft
Comparing either copies sold or money made, how does it compare to this list of games?
you obviously have never played diablo 2. HAIL TO THE KING! D3 is gonna make such a hype that it will be impossible not to buy it....
I dont really have time at the moment to look up figures, but trust me none of those console games are even close..
Let me know in 10 years if hundreds of thousands of people are still playing any of them, then we can START discussing it.
I have played Diablo 2 actually.
I was seriously asking how it fared in copies sold.
Anyways, Diablo 2 didn't get released 10 years ago. And when you have a game that throws out expansion packs, it probably works even better than a sequel. You're trying to compare the CONTINUED playability of a game that's utilizes TIME PLAYED to succeed, versus a game that's a 1 time play through (such as the ones I mentioned).
That's why I asked only about copies sold, not about time sink value.
The games continuiously been played for going on 9 years now for a reason....
I can directly compare how good a game is by the continued mass playability of said game.
Blizzard just released a teaser image on ALL of its published sites, Diablo 3 hype is off the charts right now.
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