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_Warlucky_  Posts: 183
Registered: 2008-7-20 04:40:07
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Eternal_Midnight posted:
Fine.
Here's Blizzard's most recent financial statement: http://investor.activision.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1104659-10-56564 [/l ink]
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you know how to read that.
You tell me how the math works out that they can only have subscription, licensing, and other revenues of $348 million if we assume 11 million people paying an average $12.99 a month for 3 months.
If what you are saying is true, then they earned AT LEAST $428 million from WoW alone, and they misreported it here in this document. They also clearly didn't have any other sources of monthly income other than WoW (I'm not sure if they do or not, but I would assume they do.)
Or you are wrong, and I'm right.
You don't think the asian crowd is paying the same subscription that Europe and US do? Also most likely those internet cafes have a different pricing model.
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Fedup23  Posts: 358
Registered: 2006-7-14 06:15:32
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Honestly though.. why are you dorks fighting about how much $$ Blizzard printed this time. What pony do you have in this race?  |
Foojo Posts: 147
Registered: 2008-8-18 16:16:47
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Fedup23 posted:
Honestly though.. why are you dorks fighting about how much $$ Blizzard printed this time. What pony do you have in this race?
Because some of them need to think that WoW is failing. Just sit back and enjoy the stupidity.
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st0rmie Posts: 108
Registered: 2005-4-20 00:33:25
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Foojo posted:
Because some of them need to think that WoW is failing. Just sit back and enjoy the stupidity.
This. They feel that it validates their self-worth if black is white, up is down, and a game they dislike breaking sales records is somehow a failure.
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Grimlik Posts: 35
Registered: 2004-3-9 08:36:13
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Blah blah blah
The PC gaming and console gaming market expand. WoW will forever be the most successful MMO. No other game period will touch it.
Gone are the days that people are herded like cattle to a limited number of gaming choices.
So 39 percent bought the expansion. Thats still 4.7 million copies. Not even Rift will come close to a qtr of that number.
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kyrv Title: Lord Logicus
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Registered: 2002-1-31 13:09:58
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Foojo posted:
Only VN (or mmorpg) could find gloom in selling 4.7 mil copies 
You're not wrong. 
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I don't like GC, seems like a good candidate to be an arse if you knew him in real life.
But I can't really say that WoW is worse than it was when he took over. It's probably better. Should it be even better yet? Sure. Every game out there should be better than it is.
So what has changed? ME. Played the game for years.
If GC is presiding over a game that is six years old, is king of the mountains, and is only slowly losing subs (if we pretend this is true), that's a positive for GC to me.
Note from Mister States-The-Obvious: Crediting GC for reductions but not increases is seemingly not the most objective angle.
Who was the other guy? Tigole? GC is much better *from what little I can tell* than Tigole. Faint praise, sure.
And again I don't like GC, but then again we as fans don't normally like the voices of companies, especially when they tell us 'no'.
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Riftstar Posts: 5
Registered: 2006-4-15 14:52:13
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Grimlik posted:
Blah blah blah
So 39 percent bought the expansion. Thats still 4.7 million copies. Not even Rift will come close to a qtr of that number.
If Rift has even a quarter of that number, it will be a success.
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Widdarr Posts: 2
Registered: 2007-12-30 11:58:30
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Spookysheep posted:
Widdarr posted:
Spookysheep posted:
If the xpac is so great, why aren't all subscribers playing it? o.0
Because it isn't free.
Better bait, imo. Too easy.
ah yeah, that's it. Sixty-one percent of the players can't afford $40 even after month.
Maybe they should get jobs instead of sitting around playing WoW all day. o.0
Perhaps they should. Or perhaps they will just wait until their social security checks or child support from their mothers clear.
Time will tell, won't it?
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Date Posted:
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Most of their 12 million customers are in China, and they won't be getting the expansion for a long time. So you're just looking at the Americas, Europe, South Korea, and Oceania (am I missing any?). I'm guessing that of the markets Cataclysm is available in, it probably had a saturation rate of more like 70%.
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Boone-Eldar Title: Infallible
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Registered: 2001-12-28 16:31:37
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Blisteringballs posted:
Most of their 12 million customers are in China, and they won't be getting the expansion for a long time. So you're just looking at the Americas, Europe, South Korea, and Oceania (am I missing any?). I'm guessing that of the markets Cataclysm is available in, it probably had a saturation rate of more like 70%.
Do you people even read the posts in a thread before posting?
Non China (US, EU, Latin America, etc) subscribers made up around 5 million of the 12 million the last time a breakdown was released. A fact that some of the very same people who are using the 39% have used to support their anti WoW rhetoric and trolling efforts in the past.
Again, that is around 95%.
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