Diablo IV has Attracted over 12 Million Players

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During last week's Gamescom presentation of Diablo IV's upcoming Season of Blood (due October 17), Rod Fergusson—general manager of the franchise—announced that the game's user base had surpassed 12 million. He also proudly declared that the active population has spent around 1.3 billion hours playing the extremely popular, and evidently highly addictive, action RPG. Number crunchers estimate that this works out as 100+ hours (on average) per player. Blizzard Entertainment and Activision have chosen to not release official sales figures for Diablo IV, but Fergusson's disclosure provides us with a rough picture of how well the game has sold since launching on June 5 across multiple platforms. It should be noted that the fourth entry in the long-running series has not been released via game subscription platforms.

Blizzard Entertainment has started teasing the second season of new content: "At the behest of their dark master, a newly turned army of ravenous vampires has set their sights on Sanctuary. The master's sinister plot remains a shrouded mystery but their pursuit for the blood of innocents has caused an uproar. You must learn to hunt the hunter—your fate depends on it. Season of Blood will introduce a new Questline for you to uncover, Vampiric Powers to wield against their originators, 5 additional endgame bosses with the ability to target specific Unique and Uber Unique items as a drop, and more."



Season of Blood is coming to Diablo IV.

5 new and returning endgame bosses
Updates to renown rewards
Updates to gem & stash storage
Updates to resistance & status effects

Accompany Erys (voiced by actress and producer, Gemma Chan) as she leads the effort against a deadly new evil threatening Sanctuary.

Join the hunt, October 17th . Details here: https://blizz.ly/44lrfsS

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[phanbuey]

That's really interesting wording.

How many of them are still playing the game is the real question. I got suckered into buying it and really enjoyed it for about the first 30-40 hours, but have no real reason to go back...

 

[Dahita]

Exactly. None of my friends nor I have played beyond 50 hours. Would have been much less if it weren't for the feeling of wasted money.

 

[drohm]

Too bad most of them quit.

 

[Vayra86]

Lol. This game is utterly boring 5 levels after you complete the skill tree. That's all it writes, and then its pretty much done. Progress is too linear, enemies and their scaling is boring as hell, and everything is interchangeable, from the world areas to the dungeons to its supposed endgame content.

It feels a bit like I'm a donkey chasing a stick with no carrot at the end.

 

[beedoo]

Wife and I played Diablo II to death, Diablo III to approximately Paragon level 2000.

She got Diablo IV free with a 4070 video card and has played for precisely 1 hour, and not logged in since...

 

[Dr_b_]

Gotta keep that stock price pumped up, even if they have to tell tall tales. McDonalds has sold trillions of "hamburgers", doesn't mean they are good, or made from real meat.

 

[Minus Infinity]

I was initially stoked then I started watching some playthroughs on YT and there it is, the same mindless grind as D3, millions of drops 0.00001% not trash, constantly comparing stats hoping rng works out for you. Sorry my days of Diablo are dead and buried and that includes games like POE which I hate even more.

 

[leezhiran]

Quit playing this piece of s since july.Guess I'm one of the 12m player they counted.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Guilty as charged.
Sadly, I'm in the same boat. Played for a couple dozen hours, but stopped with absolutely no reason to go back.
The game is that bad.

 

[brutlern]

And yet, I'm still not paying 70 euros for it.

 

[Totally]

Cool, cool, uh huh, but how many are still after a month and compared to the first week?

 

[Prima.Vera]

Sadly, I've got trapped into paying the Diablo tax. I actually bought the game name, not the game itself. If this would have been a game made by a different company, under a different name, it wouldn't even be worth 30$. Probably would have been F2P, just like the Path of Exile, which btw, is million times better than this atrocity.