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Diablo III a top Google search in 2012
By
Eddie Makuch, News Editor
Searches for Blizzard's dungeon-crawler topped only by iPad 3, Hurricane Sandy, Gangnam Style, and Whitney Houston.
Google today published its annual Zeitgeist 2012 results, revealing Diablo III landed at the number five position for trending searches during the year. Blizzard Entertainment's role-playing game was topped only by iPad 3, Hurricane Sandy, Gangnam Style, and Whitney Houston. Diablo III has sold over 10 million copies to date.
Diablo III was a more popular search item in 2012 than Kate Middleton, Olympics 2012, Amanda Todd, Michael Clarke Duncan, and BBB12. Google's top "trending" searches are those that generated the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2012 when compared to 2011.
No other game or gaming-specific product made it into Google's overall trending searches list, though gaming had a presence elsewhere. "PlayStation" came in at number six in the Consumer Electronics section for top trending searches of 2012.
To compile its 2012 Zeitgeist, Google factored in over one trillion searches typed into Google Search this year. The company used data from a range of sources like Google Trends and unspecified internal data tools. Spam and repeat searches were tossed out in an effort to create lists that "best reflect the spirit of 2012."
Top Trending Searches of 2012, per Google data:
1. Whitney Houston
2. Gangnam Style
3. Hurricane Sandy
4. iPad 3
5. Diablo 3
6. Kate Middleton
7. Olympics 2012
8. Amanda Todd
9. Michael Clarke Duncan
10. BBB12
By
Eddie Makuch, News Editor
Eddie Makuch (Mack-ooh) is a News Editor at GameSpot. He works out of the company's Boston office in Somerville, Mass., and loves extra chunky peanut butter.
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very sad search...pretty much all the people on the list r dead except the royal duchess. oh wait, that nurse died earlier this month is because of her baby news.
oh! not to mention dec 21st is approaching soon.
happy holiday everyone :l
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1 Like @Venatorcruiser It's no. 1, dude. They just don't mention it for obvious reasons. =)
2 Like What a dumb article. Did you mention the game turned out super boring compared to diablo 2, and half those results were for a refund, uninstall, or selling?
@SevenStyx Exactly. Not boring, I would use a stronger word. Too bad, mods never sleep here!
@Ripper_TV @SevenStyx are you going to solely base it on D2 or D2 + LoD thats a big difference. To be honest D2 wasn't that great, its LoD that made it great. That's not a great defense for D3. D3 was good just not LoD good, hoping the expansion pays off just like LoD.
@Erick @Ripper_TV @SevenStyx I don't have the same opinion as you. I thought D2 was good. The expansion wasn't anything profound to me, just 2 more character classes, another boss, very little cut scenes to make a difference in story, basically the same game; same experience to me.
1 Like It was a popular search because it was a hugely popular game, you guys don't have to make a federal case out of it. Is there a Gamespot poster above the age of fifteen? I mean seriously.
2 Like top in Google's stats but fails to mention 99% of the time it was likely the result of booleans with the words "uninstall", "refund", or "selling"
I was one of the people who bought a year of WoW subscription in order to get Diablo 3 for free (even though I quit playing WoW back when Cataclysm came out cause it sucked tremendously).
Since then, I've played maybe 10-15 hours of Diablo 3 in however many months it's been out, but have gotten back into WoW again. At least Mists of Pandaria is something engaging and not bugged to hell and back with terrible RNG.
Blizzard accomplished with Diablo 3 something they never thought possible........ They made their fanbase THINK twice about buying their games in the future.
2 Like Doesnt matter if it was number 5 in 2012 in google search or made record sales.
Majority Quit and game is sinking in less than 5 months. Im pretty sure Diablo 3 had the fastest and biggest online RPG decline in PC history.
Diablo 2 after 14 years ... puts Diablo 3 in shame. Thats ridiculous if you ask me.
@AzatiS No surprise there. I was a huge fan and spent my time online, but then they had to change everything, Add this 2nd leveling system that I have no clue what it does because I quit playing before it, apply patches that change the whole gameplay, Dramatically increase the drop rate. Dramatically decrease Inferno's difficulty therefore filling it with noobs (for lack of a better word). It's like one of those MMO's where you work SO hard to get things that are so difficult to get, only to learn a month later that those things are now easily accessible to everybody. What a shame.
1 Like :D I'm glad I like Diablo 3, when it originally came out it had some issues but Blizzard has been good to fix and improve the game as they always do. People (including myself) got so hyped up over the game they were expecting a perfect game out of the gate, something that would have no issues with it which is unrealistic. Diablo 2 v1.0 was very buggy and not nearly as fun as the current version that we have today. So I wish people would take their minds off of OMG THIS GAME IS SUCH TRASH and give it a shot even now.
1 Like @Grimbear13 sorry to wake u up, but a game that cant be played is quite unrealistic.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/8132311/Patch_106a_Now_Live-12_11_2012
ppl give it a shot, blizzard give u a sh*t =)
2 Like Well, at least this horrible game got one thing right...
the Hype. Blizzard is almost as good as Apple on that.
Creating an interest, expectation and a false feeling of superior quality, needs heeps of casf though, to pay off jurnalists and for publicity.
Behind every result hides an investor that invested huge sums to be there.
The saddest thing is though that the hype slaves, esp in the US, are still majority...
And for them Blizzard had lost a huge opportunity by sacrificing one of its best IPs this way.
Diablo 2 had a ten year appeal, Diablo 3 lost its appeal in less than 10 months...
The interest raised for this has shown its potential, the reaction of the poor customers of us after playing it though tells a totally different story...
This will teach us and future gamer generations never to trust Blizzard again...
@InquisitorCrox oh jeez stfu cry baby. Yea the game didn't deliver close to what it should have but just cause people like playing by no means are they hype slaves
8 Like I think they meant to say "90% of those searches were pirates trying to find it for free"
6 Like I smashed my Diablo 3 disk along with the computer it was played on, and then I burned my house down in which my computer was kept to ensure that I never played this pile of ass again.
1 Like Warning! Internet hipster alert! Just in case you want go and look for the comments below.
3 Like No i think they got it wrong...its Diablo 3 sucks thats the number 1 search...
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1 Like @Venatorcruiser Nah,dude.The AK 47 is Call of Duty MW1 ago.I'll wear the SolidEye.
1 Like Just shows how great the game could have been. It was good but just too different from what made it so successful. I think it lost itself
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@GamerMani This guy can't be serious. It's either trolling, or I've lost my faith in humanity.
Biggest blizzard fanboy in gamespot spotted.
I never saw something like that since 2004 im on this site.
2 Like @GamerMani What? Anything you say doesn't make any sense. Activision Blizzard fanboy.
Btw. You are not getting WoW on you next Xbox, sorry to break your bubble.
2 Like Have respect for blizzard, they made World of Warcraft, Strcraft II and Diablo III....good reason to sit on your computer
2 Like
Then you are too young.
The real respect for Blizzard comes with games like
Diablo / Diablo 2 / Starcraft / Warcraft and then WoW.
Diablo 3 is not even close ... Its a suckball game that dying despite millions of sales and tremendous hype and anticipation.
Biggest letdown ever.
@Imperiacommando I respect them for Warcraft III, but they lose that respect by refusing to make a Warcraft IV.
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