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Diablo Immortal Has Reportedly Made $24 Million on Mobile in Its First Two Weeks
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You do realize its a business first right ? This game is free how do you expect them to make money ?
ok 100k to max out your character that is daylight robbery. plenty of other games are free to play and only sell cosmetics and still make enough. Blizzard are just scum f***
Read that last sentence a few times and see if that makes sense...
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Diablo 3 sold 3.5 million copies in the first 24 hours, earning them $120 million+
Not including Reaper of Souls, necro dlc, real money auction.
Fantastic news, especially considering DI will be dead after a month because of all the predatory monetization, they will learn hard from this mistake ^^
EDIT: Diablo Immortal has also been canceled in China, due to a Community Manager posting "why isn't (Winnie) the bear out of office yet?"
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It makes perfect sense, the game is free so they had to turn it into an online casino. I do wonder about the rational that apologists for this use myself.
Charge $9.99 a download and remove cash shop. With 5 million downloads they would have made $50 million by now.
50 probably in total, they made 23 millions in one week, in one month they probably will made 70 millions
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Last sentence of the article?
"For more on Diablo Immortal, head to the official site."
Yeah it makes sense I guess. Not sure how it could be confusing though.
That's interesting. Do you have links to that data. Would love to read about it.
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All in all a passable ARPG with one or two good game play innovations (like the ability to extract the power affixes from legendary gear - not gems - and put that power into better legendaries you get as you level up) but not nearly as good as D2R, D3, POE, Grim Dawn or even Last Epoch which is still in early access.
Uninstalled last night.
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The only caveat here is that GI released globally, while DI is still not out in China. GI brings in about 30% of its revenue from there.
Given the source article, if GI brings about 175m a month, it totals to about 122m (without China), or about 61m every two weeks, vs DI bringing in 24m every two weeks.
Although not record breaking, they are still at about 40% of the most profitable mobile game on the market. Although disappointing, the game is a huge commercial success.
Are you sure about that?
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Again, no one is forcing you to play the game, and certainly your tax dollars aren't going to support it. Perhaps it's time for you to simply STFU?