This service led to the skyrocketing of Diablo’s sales, with 2.5 million copies selling in a short amount of time.ĭiablo is a hack-and-slash game, also filed under the action RPG genre, and is known for its dark and grimy fantasy world, its multitude of characters, its riveting story, and the revolutionary gameplay we’ve discussed above. Diablo came with a multiplayer option just like any of the games being released back then, but it also came with an in-built matchmaking service called, which allowed players to join forces with anyone else that may be playing the game and is also logged into. Modems and LAN were the go-to back then, in the mid to late 90s, when the first Diablo game was released, and it was only after Diablo was released that companies realized how successful the concept of multiplayer play over the internet could be and how vast the market was for such games. Before Diablo, internet multi-player gaming was limited, and most companies were not willing to gamble their money away on an untested idea, in uncharted territory. Diablo is one of the most popular video game franchises of all time, not only in the hack-and-slash or RPG genre but overall as well.

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