Blizzard says 'There's actually millions of people that still play Diablo 3' and those players have the right idea

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It’s pretty fun throwing fireballs and waves of flame around while a summoned buddy tanks all the damage for me. Or at least it was until I got to the Maggot Lair. And not long after that, the Arcane Sanctuary. I haven’t even made it to Act 3’s jungle maze yet, but I’m not looking forward to it.Well-loved as it is, Diablo 2 is not without flaws. Even in remastered form it still has the stamina bar David Brevik hates. Meanwhile, Diablo 4 does the live-service thing of having so many currencies to keep track of it can be headache-inducing. It makes sense that some people would find comfort in the halfway house of Diablo 3—though apparently it’s a lot more than just “some”As Matthew Cederquist, Diablo legacy executive producer at Blizzard, recently told Eurogamer, “There’s actually millions of people that still play Diablo 3. Even when Diablo 4 came out, some players were cannibalised and brought over to D4, but there’s still a massive player base for Diablo 3,” he said. 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