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Diablo 4 Twitch viewership continues to drop as Diablo 3 overtakes it (www.charlieintel.com)
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After witnessing one of the most successful RPG releases in recent history, Diablo 4 seems to have lost all its viewership online. Being Blizzard’s highest-sold game ever, many expected the fourth installment in the Diablo 4 franchise to prosper, but instead, Diablo 3 has surpassed it suddenly.

On June 6, Diablo 4 was released worldwide as the game sold more than 10 million copies within 3 days of launch. This made it Blizzard’s highest-selling game of all time. However, it seems like the game continues to lose traction, losing more than 90% of its viewership since its June launch.

Rather Diablo 3 has surpassed its successor, even though it was released 11 years ago. With its new Season 29, Diablo 3 now sits at a weekly average of 3,000 viewers on Twitch with a peak of 5,600 viewers on September 17. For context, Diablo 4 has a weekly average of 940 viewers at the time of writing.

Diablo 4 saw a peak viewership of 940,000 at the time of its release, ten times more than Diablo 3 ever achieved. However, it has lost almost 99% of its peak viewership and sits at a weekly average of 940 on Twitch.

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[-] giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

The game industry seems to have been heavily infected with capitalistic bullshit. It’s really sad to see what was once a fun combination of art, entertainment, nerdiness, and tech turn into another soulless cash machine.

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

The game industry has always been deeply entrenched in capitalism...

Look at the arcades of old. They were basically just slot machines for kids without the chance for a payout.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Were they fun? I have way more fun playing arcade games than I do most Blizzard games these days (and I have more money left after).

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm not sure if they were or not. I wasn't around during that time. I'm more commenting on this prevailing narrative that video games were this auteur-focused medium that's just now being sullied by capitalism. That's a false narrative and I think what's really happening is that we're becoming more and more aware of just how insidious unchecked capitalism can really be and we're noticing it more and more in the things that we love. Whereas in the past, we may have been less critical or interrogative of the industry as a whole.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Agree to disagree I guess, I think it's far worse and far more prevalent.

[-] float@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

There's tons of good indie games. And you don't even need a 2000€ PC to play them.

[-] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

I'm just sitting around playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon and, while id prefer something narrative driven, it's been giving me the happies for quite a while.

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