Not that it wasn’t successful, of course, D2 just didn’t have the broad appeal that I saw in D3. Clearly D3 captured a strong attraction that D2 never did. But all of them were excited for D3, and even though all of us dropped it a few months after launch due to the game’s problems we all nevertheless came back for Reaper of Souls. I’m the only person in my friends group that seriously got into D2: one or two others played it once or twice and then moved on, and the others never liked it.

Even people who had never played or cared about Diablo before were excited for D3. IGN gave it 10/10 at a time when they’d previously given very few 10s and the general critical consensus was in the mid to high 90s for score. D3 was at 30 million copies sold in August 2015.Īs far as D3’s success goes, something that should not be forgotten is that it reviewed phenomenally well. The current numbers for D3, across all platforms, is 65 million copies circa 2022, according to Rod Ferguson. D4 is now a game everyone knows about and basically every videogames community is looking forward to, whether it'd be to see another Blizzard title crash and burn or to see if Blizzard can pull it off again and move the genre forward. D3 was a big deal for people in very niche communities. There are way more communities hyping this game up now and excited for its launch than for D3. People that play POE are excited for this game. You're obviously taking the way you felt about the game at the time and just applying it to everyone and everything else.ĭ4 is being hyped up by every ARPG person out there.

D4 isn't going to be popular because of D2, it'll be popular because it's Diablo.Īlso the hype for D4 is insane, I have no clue how you think D3 had more. Most people remember all of Diablo as being very, very good games. You can be a redditor elsewhere and debate how good of a game it was, but a lot of people remember it fairly fondly.

Sub tries to not bash Diablo 3 (impossible).ĭ4 has a lot of hype because of the whole series.Īs much as you don't want to admit it, a lot of people had a lot of fun playing D3. Last updated at 14:00:17 UTC Weekly Help Desk RAGE Loot Thread Trade Thread

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