{"id":42372,"date":"2012-08-03T11:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T09:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42372"},"modified":"2012-08-03T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T09:19:55","slug":"diablo-iii-captures-over-10-million-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42372-diablo-iii-captures-over-10-million-players","title":{"rendered":"Diablo III captures over 10 million players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Activision report on the company&#8217;s Q2 earnings have revealed that Blizzard&#8217;s colossal dungeon-crawler has accumulated (trapped) 10 million users.<\/p>\n<p>3.5 million copies of Diablo III were sold in the first 24 hours of the game&#8217;s launch day, with 1.2 million players joining from having purchased the World of Warcraft Annual Pass offer, which gave access on launch.<\/p>\n<p>Another 1.6 million players purchased Diablo III within the following week, pushing the tally up to 6.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The current figure of over 10 million is a huge jump from the game&#8217;s launch, and shows that despite <a href=\"mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41607-blizzard-we-know-that-diablo-iii-isnt-perfect.html\" target=\"_blank\">Diablo III&#8217;s complaints<\/a>, the game has maintained it&#8217;s traction.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41745-diablo-iii-invincibility-exploit-discovered.html\">Diablo III invincibility exploit discovered<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41607-blizzard-we-know-that-diablo-iii-isnt-perfect.html\">Blizzard: \u201cWe know that Diablo III isn\u2019t perfect\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40716-blizzard-denies-banning-linux-players-from-diablo-iii.html\">Blizzard denies banning Linux players from Diablo III<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40681-blizzard-banning-linux-players-from-diablo-iii.html\">Blizzard banning Linux players from Diablo III<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39909-diablo-iii-finally-completed-on-hardcore-inferno.html\">Diablo III finally completed on Hardcore Inferno<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard continues to rake gamers into Sanctuary <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":34997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2415,667,1799,1791,2219],"class_list":["post-42372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-blizzard-entertainment","tag-diablo-3","tag-diablo-iii","tag-exploit","tag-megarom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42375,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42372\/revisions\/42375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}