We're just wondering whether GameStop will catch a few customers subscribing as they pick up their Diablo III pre-orders or else face the uncertain future that befalls many MVNOs.
Blizzard had over 2 million pre-orders for Diablo III and the game has attracted a huge number of gamers, breaking records with over 3.5 million copies sold in its first 24 hours.
Both SimCity and Diablo III launched as always-online, always connected games and both have experienced extremely rough waters especially during launch.
The initial wave of negative reviews with online issues that have plagued many gamers notwithstanding, Wedbush Morgan Securities game analyst Michael Pachter believes the long-term potential for Diablo III remains strong.
If the point of Diablo III is to level up, click-and-kill, and find loot, how does buying loot with real money enhance the game experience?
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Leading the charge will be biggies such as Killzone Shadow Fall, Bungie's next first-person shooter known as Destiny, Diablo III and a new installment of Final Fantasy.
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It may not take weeks or months like a full-fledged MMO review might take, but to review Diablo III fairly you need to review its accessibility and the impact the online only nature of the game has on gameplay even down to the ability of gamers to log into their accounts.
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His post, a screenshot of his Diablo III experience, aimed to call out Blizzard to take action against message-spamming third party merchants, and to have a reasonable level of player-moderation.
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Blizzard has been busy pushing hotfixes onto their on-and-off broken auction house system, in an effort to quell the rage of the unhappy Diablo III community.
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Say what you will about Diablo III, but climbing up stony steps in the fog, and glancing down into the forested, 3-dimensional landscape below, can be quite beautiful.
With the Auction House feature of Diablo III now live, Donovan said Blizzard can make a big statement if they can keep a big user-base and run the real-money auction house.
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