Chapter 197 - Incredible Sales
Many members of staff were playing Diablo too.
A few assistants were discussing as they played.
“That’s weird, I thought the game wouldn’t be fun when I looked at the draft. Why am I completely addicted to it now? It just has to be part of my daily routine!”
“You got that right, the ominous art style didn’t stop me from playing at all, it’s actually more enjoyable because of that.”
“Yeah. And there aren’t that many different game modes in the game, nor are there daily activities. Yet I still grind the game every single day. I’ll play one level after another, multiplayer after singleplayer, I just can’t stop at all!”
Zhou Hanyu was shocked too.
When he first tried the game, it did feel quite stressful, but the stress mysteriously disappeared when playing through the story.
“Chen Mo spending big money for cinematics again! Thunderbolt Movies proud production!”
“Expert analysis: Niche theme, high quality game but potentially small player base”
“Experts say that this game will struggle to break five hundred thousand sales, is Chen Mo losing money?”
There were praises and doubts as all eyes were on Diablo’s sales. As it was a singleplayer game, only the number of sales could reveal the answer to the question.
Soon, Diablo’s sales in the first week were released.
Two hundred and eighty thousand sales!
This was shocking news to all the industry professionals who doubted Diablo as this was pretty close to their estimate for the first month!
But more shocking news had yet to come.
Not only did Diablo’s growth not drop in the second week, it kept its momentum, selling a total of four hundred and thirty thousand sales in the second week!
Obviously many players who thought the game was hopeless finally decided to buy the game in the second week, as player opinion of the game further improved the sales.
In the end, Diablo sold 1.87 million copies in the first month!
This meant that Diablo made two hundred and forty million RMB, or one hundred and sixty-seven million RMB net for Chen Mo!
He made back his huge investment within a month.
This shocked the industry professionals yet again. They didn’t think that a third-person RPG that they have always despised and dubbed ‘ancient’ could become an extremely popular game!