Diablo 4 has become a massive success, breaking records and generating over $666 million in sales within a week of its launch.
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Blizzard Entertainment president, Mike Ybarra, expressed gratitude to the player community for immersing themselves in the game and praised Blizzard's commitment to crafting genre-defining games.
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Players have already spent a cumulative total of 30,000 years playing Diablo 4 and have battled against 2.73 billion monsters.
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Diablo 4's sales surpassed expectations and became Blizzard's fastest-selling game of all time, even surpassing the combined worldwide box office earnings of all horror films released in 2023.
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Launch statistics include 276 million hours of gameplay, 316,991,632 deaths, 429,792 PvP encounters, and 5,792,063 deaths caused by The Butcher.
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The community formed 166,000,960 parties and 6,263 players reached level 100, with 163 achieving it in hardcore mode.
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Diablo 4 faced minor setbacks during its launch, including licensing issues on the PlayStation 5 and temporary server downtime.
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