Post from Mike Morhaime

[Lissa]

Even 100,000 pissed-off posters is only 1% of the 10 million copies of D3 sold (numbers announced recently, includes AP).

Posts really mean nothing, it's numbers of actual active games running at any given time. I've heard numbers that the games running consistently for the past month and a half we're holding steady at around 10k games in prime time for the NA region. That means at most, you have 40k people actually in a game (this does not account for browsing the AH or chatting with people while sitting at the character screen). If there are 10 Million copies sold, that's pretty telling on the number of people that are still actively playing Mav. If there were only 2 Million copies sold in North America, that means that during prime time you're looking at only 2% of the copies sold actively in a game session (again, not counting those browsing the AH or sitting at character screen and chatting). That's actually kind of pathetic for a game that has only been out now 2 1/2 months, especially one that has such a rich legacy behind it. So yeah, 100k angry posts, big deal, but 10k active games during prime time in NA when several million games were sold in NA, that's a very big deal (and a big problem).