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By: Blizzard lies to us, then losses money. « Invader Gamer

Blizzard lies to us, then losses money. « Invader Gamer — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:22:05 +0000

[...] really kind of ticks me off is that around the end of October 2008, they report over 10 million subscribers and then in less than two weeks releases proof that they really don’t have 10 million [...]

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Ask Aurdon: Battleground XP | I Sheep Things... — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:31:31 +0000

[...] measure to WoW players leaving for WAR. That’s really just conspiracy talk because with WoW’s eleven million subscribers, they really aren’t on the same competition level with WAR. I just chalk battleground XP up [...]

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By: World of Worldcraft raggiunge gli 11 milioni di utenti | 0.2

World of Worldcraft raggiunge gli 11 milioni di utenti | 0.2 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:14:04 +0000

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By: Smokes

Smokes — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:20:20 +0000

>I can’t THINK of another equiv. in any other industry, because
>nowhere else does a single entity dominate a space as
>completely as WoW does.

Errrrrr. Google.

By: MegaRed

MegaRed — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:05:03 +0000

11 millones de usuarios de World of Warcraft…

Blizzard Enterteinment anuncia que su popular videojuego de rol online ha alcanzado los 11 millones de suscriptores.

Una cifra que incluye las suscripciones normales, las de tarjetas prepago, y los que han comprado el juego y están en su primer mes…

By: World Of Warcraft hits 11 million subscribers, but is slowing down « Power of Thought

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:05:58 +0000

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By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:42:25 +0000

It is still the biggest game in China

By: lazysupper

lazysupper — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:46:39 +0000

WoW brought in $1.2 BILLION in revenue in 2007. Who cares if they have ZERO growth in WoW…

By: Matt Mihaly

Matt Mihaly — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:33:15 +0000

It’s not $15 * 11million, Ian.

It’s $15 * ~4 or 4.5 million since that’s about the size of their Western market. Chinese players, which make up a huge portion of their playerbase, pay far less, and Blizzard doesn’t run WoW there themselves – they license it to Chinese publisher The9 and get royalty payments off it.

No doubt it’s an immense amount of money but $15*11 million does not give you the correct answer.

By: GAMING « Daily Marauder

GAMING « Daily Marauder — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:44:56 +0000

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By: Ian Livingstone

Ian Livingstone — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:08:17 +0000

$15 * 11,000,000 — not bad monthly revenue…

By: MikeT

MikeT — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:05:15 +0000

It’s a good enough cash cow – why so much noise about its’ slowing down? Just keep it going and enjoy the cash!

By: tom

tom — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:02:20 +0000

WoW, a big, profitable, hit MMOG I play at http://playum.com

By: seth

seth — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:00:43 +0000

excellent points. i see that there is now an in game calendar, however we are still without a lot of useful add ons. with the huge base, personalization could really take the game to the next level. i admit getting bored now that i’m 70. you can only do so many raids.

By: Allen

Allen — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:55:12 +0000

Hardcore PC gamers leaving for consoles? I don’t think so. A casual PC gamer may be spending more time on consoles, but believe me, hardcore PC gamers could care less whether they even own any of the new consoles or not. Remember, the best consoles are only a snapshot of what the best PCs can do at that point in time. A PC can progress, whereas you are stuck with the same processor, RAM, and GPU on your console for the next 5 years. Until we see interchangeable hardware on consoles, the PC will always at least have that advantage.

By: Alon

Alon — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:23:04 +0000

i agree, i bet that every game company will be happy to have this kind of a “problem”

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By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:49:14 +0000

All the talk about the “slowing” of WoW in these comments is hilarious. It’s the equivalent of… actually I can’t THINK of another equiv. in any other industry, because nowhere else does a single entity dominate a space as completely as WoW does.

Let me put it this way: before WoW, a big, profitable, hit MMO would have about ~500,000 subscribers. 500K would represent a big hit – maybe something like Everquest.

Now, compare that to Warcraft’s ELEVEN MILLION subscribers. It’s 10-15x bigger than it’s closest competition – the #2 game in the genre! Let alone how much bigger it is than a typical MMORPG.

It’s slowing because there’s nowhere else for it to go. The added more subscribers in 10 months (1 million) than many successful, profitable MMOs EVER have.