Q3 GAAP Net Revenues by Segment/Platform Mix
Activision and Blizzard:
Online subscriptions (wow subs and sales)
for 3 months $336 mil
Q4 same line which now also includes Call of duty elite memberships
$268 mil
Awesome, somehow the…
Originally posted by brody71 if blizzard started merging servers they would be admitting theres a problem.
with all the instanced content, it's not that big a deal. (dungeons, battlegrounds, raid)
most people spend the majority of there time in …
Originally posted by TheHavok
Originally posted by drbaltazar
Originally posted by TheHavok
Originally posted by GameOvr
Originally posted by TheHavok
This thread again...
When will people r…
Originally posted by TheHavok
This thread again...
When will people realize that warcraftrealms.com and MMOdata.net are very inaccurate websites?
MMOData goes by blizzards numbers, you know earnings calls, what they tell investor…
Originally posted by marinrider
I would believe it just as much as I do now. Im not saying its completly wrong but I'm skeptical of it.
if you google warcraft merge servers then use the advanced option to limit to last 30 days you …
Originally posted by slickbizzle
They still have about 3-4 million NA/EU subs, so they've definitely tapped into a vein of what people want: Instant gratification.
They had that many subs in Vanilla too.
Originally posted by Dragonantis
Blizzard has a record of always releasing a patch or expansion everytime this happens to recover their numbers.
Actually wow subs has never gone down by even 1 subscription in total subs except wrat…
When the census showed full servers and populations that were reasonable for sub numbers I bet you had no problem with the data.
This data has been collected the same way for seven years, it does not need to be perfect to be informative.
I know AV, I have a vanilla WoW Field Marshal, that did it mostly in AV. At the end, the last week, I was on vacation from work and in AV 18 hrs a day.
I remember when you would see games that could last a day, and ones where Ivus or Lok'hola…
It's an old pet peeve of mine but I will share it anyway.
In Isle of conquest the BG is supposed to be faction neutral, the objectives are the same travel time from each of the holds, etc.
The main objective is to break down a gate in th…
Obviously this is all part of a master plan, like the OP states, oh wait...
Ghostcrawler: Pandaren were added as an April Fools? joke for Warcraft 3 years and years ago... It’s something that we’ve brought back every now and then as a joke…
Originally posted by Majinash
AoE DPS nerfed? Did you know there were days when many DPS didn't have ANY AoE damage? Fan of Knives, Mind Sear, Living bomb, cat form swipe, any kind of shaman AoE. These were all added much later. Vanilla an…
The cool kids where the first to play wow.
And the cool kids started to leave the building years ago, now almost none left.
I don't know what's left but it IS NOT the community of the 1st million that were playing wow.
Originally posted by TealaHow many guilds actually ever manage to complete the highest of riads?
Before hard mode that was supposed to cater to 2% of players?
Before one player can wipe the raid mechanics were added to almost every fight?
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Originally posted by Cthulhu23 So about the LFR system...are the raids a nerfed version of the normal raid? And is there any difference in the kind of loot dropped? I haven't followed WoW in about 6 months, so I'm not sure how this works. I had h…
Originally posted by Azaria
As someone who played WOW guild politics are cutthroat, Larger raiding guilds force people in smaller friend guilds to leave their guild to get gear, you end up with a bunch of A expetive expletives who are total e…
As another WoW Vanilla player of 6.5 years, I understand these sentiments all too well.
If you look at a chart of WoW subs, such as MMOData, you can see the skyrocketing popularity of the game from the beginning through BC, and a plateau over …