{"id":63049,"date":"2014-04-03T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63049"},"modified":"2014-04-03T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:36:22","slug":"reaper-of-souls-is-selling-by-the-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63049-reaper-of-souls-is-selling-by-the-millions","title":{"rendered":"Reaper of Souls is selling by the millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo 3 expansion Reaper of Souls has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week on sale, Blizzard has reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited to see that players are enjoying the changes we&#8217;ve made to the game, and we look forward to achieving our Paragon levels alongside everyone else in the weeks and months ahead,&#8221; said Blizzard CEO\u00a0Mike Morhaime.<\/p>\n<p>The sales figure includes digital and physical copies for the PC and Mac, and comes off the back of a February announcement by Blizzard that Diablo 3 had sold 15 million units.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard also said that Death has been killed more than 1.5 million times by players, as a fun side fact.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2014-04-03-diablo-3-reaper-of-souls-shifts-2-7m-in-a-week\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63018-best-selling-games-in-south-africa.html\">Best-selling games in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/62989-goat-simulator-review-round-up.html\">Goat Simulator review round-up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62998-ea-mocks-wii-u-then-apologises.html\">EA mocks Wii U then apologises<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End boss Death has been killed 1.5 million times, according to Blizzard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":62692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,665,667,12154,2287],"class_list":["post-63049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-diablo-3","tag-diablo-3-reaper-of-souls","tag-game-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63049","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63050,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63049\/revisions\/63050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}