Written by: (@QuintLyn) | August 3, 2012 12:45 pm

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Diablo III may have had its fair share of issues since launch, but that still hasn’t stopped people from continuing to pick up the game — a rather large number of people. Despite the problems people have experienced with things such as logging in and the auction house, the amount of copies sold has gone up nearly 4 million since Blizzard announced the first week sales total in May.

At the end of the first week, the game had already sold 6.3 million copies.

Of course, not all of these were for the full $60 standard edition price, as World of Warcraft players recieved discounts or got the game for free when signing up for the annual pass. On the other hand, some people dished out about $100 for the collectors edition. (I tried to find a number on this but could only locate an estimate of 70,000 — whether this was just a first run number or accounts for all of them is unclear.)

When discussing Diablo III at yesterday’s conference call, president of Blizzard: Mike Morhaime told analysts that D3‘s real-money auction house is meeting expectations in regard to revenues. He also said that Blizzard will continue to expand the service but elected not to specify how much money the RMAH is actually bringing in.

Diablo III Sells 10 Million Copies

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Case/100003772398650 Justin Case

    $$$

  • http://twitter.com/Deadalon Deadalon

    So… now the only thing is how RMAH will expand…  Discusting.    Go play real games instead of slot machines and BTW.  

  • http://twitter.com/Nathiest Nathiest

    “Well” as in, ‘we be rich ya’ll!’ 

    crap game is crap.

  • Deathstar2x

    What do the current Diablo 3 players find fun about the game?
    Is it really that thrill of buying an item? That’s what you call a shopaholic.

    Buying items ≠ Item Hunt

  • http://www.facebook.com/oneniisama Bear Powell

    I find crap legendaries/set items, put them on the RMAH for $3-$40, and then collect the money. This money has been used to buy me new stuff for my PC and various game systems. Plus, I am saving up a nice little amount to use for the Guild Wars 2 Cash Shop (Aviators, Dyes and Pets, Ahoy!) Diablo 3 blows goats, but at least you can get paid to play it while watching tv and such.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/BODC6RD6AXDP4RTY53UC3DM6UE Katie_Kips

    Diablo III is perfect for people like me. I lost my job recently (intestinal disease) so I’ve been making Diablo III my full time job. I play about 4 hours a day and I think I’ve earned something like 90 bucks so far which is awesome. Prolly pick up GW2 with that money. 

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