Seeing as Diablo 2 sold 4 million copies after the first year, 5 million is not that hard to believe.

With MoP still far away and with absolutely NOTHING going on in WoW atm it's a no brainer that D3 will sell like crazy. 

I personally still have some respect left for SC2, forgiving its money gouging 3 separate games thing and Diablo because It's just so damned epic. 

So they think half of WoW's population will play d3...I think more than that actually. Would you say 70% plus?

side note: I hope titan isn't f2p and is Warcraft 4. If anything can revive wow it will be warcraft.

Originally posted by WhiteLantern

"The company opines that a million of these sales will come via the World of Warcraft annual pass promotion where players receive D3 for free."

 

And that still counts as a "sale"?

Keep in mind this is a company that counts anyone with time left on their pay by the hour setup as a sub in other areas which makes up the bulk of their "Xmillion" subscribers lol.

why would gw2 maker do that they have their own schedule.the idea here is to release when no multimillion user franchise could impede diablo 3 success,blizzard ignore the market when wow is concern but they arent as cocky as to think diablo3 could be in instant success!by releasing now they ll get less player then if they had released in say august  or september.but have less of a chance to bump into pandaria ,gw2 etc!so in the short term they should sell a lot more then if they had done so later!

Originally posted by palulalula

Originally posted by Nadia

Originally posted by Dreadblade

The thing is Blizz could effectively deliver a one, two punch to GW2, first with D3 and then with the right timing of MoP, GW2 might have a lot of trouble. Say what you want but when WoW launches an Expansion the masses come back even if it is only for 30-60 days.

I think GW2 will be fine

cmon, GW2 had 1 million beta signups in less than 50hrs

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/27/guild-wars-2-beta-signups-peaked-at-4-000-a-minute/

 

 

 

 

You guys are really boring with gw2, it is about  Blizzard King of MMO and RPG and about Diablo, it was nothing there in article about some low budget arena net (or whatsever) game

 

Low budget? ArenaNet are the ones that make the game. NCsoft is the one that funds them to make the game, and trust me NCsoft is no "low budget" company. Get your facts staight.

Love diablo games. 

Love arenanet as company (from how i seen them manage GW- which i havnt played but heard from freinds in other games i played). Loved GW2 closed beta footage and the amazing changes being brought to the genre.

I am (maybe) buying D3 - cos Its part 3 of the diablo series. The "maybe" is cos i dont like blizzard as a company now.

I am buying GW2 - cos arenanet's treatment of the game and gamers has been good (how i know is cos i met GW players in other games.. they got bored of gw, but they like the company although some called it nerfnet for its constant balancing in GW) + GW2 gameplay is quite an evolution in the fantasy mmo genre.

Among the two, it is wierd that i really want arenanet as a company to suceed with GW2. i dont get the same feeling about blizzard Oo.