Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
congraz to blizz
nariusseldon
Member EpicPosts: 27,775
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
nariusseldon
Member EpicPosts: 27,775
Comments
I've been enjoying the MoP expansion. Much more enjoyable than my time in GW2 and the repeating "dynamic" events.
I think the sub & d3 sales may be a bit old .. But they just released quarterly financial results and they are also making tons of money.
Looking at Zfire, it looks like they stabilized ahead of where it was before MoP. Plus investors are raving about the 3rd qt report.
Good for blizz!
D3 isn't an MMO though. So doesn't matter.
Not a MMO but there is a forum here for it so it is fair game for discussion here.
Plus, its playstyle is close enough to a MMO that personally i don't view MMOs very differently than D3 type ARPG.
WoW never had 10 million subs. They count the China players as subs for some moronic reason.
In any case, this isn't really a good thing, just shows how far the MMO genre has fallen.
D3 failure is a possible sign where blizz is headed .
The bank. CHA CHING!
10 million boxes sold != failure
We'll see what happens when the expansion goes on sale. I'd love to see the monthly RMAH revenue for D3 since release. It must be tanking these days.
It helps "pad" their numbers by 250% or so, even though Asians are not subscribers, and buy into "anytime" minutes.
I'd rather have their system personally, and just pay for the time spent. Only play 10 hours this month? That will be $0.60, please come again!
Unless there is a huge shift in gamers, I'd doubt D4 (if they dare release it) will outsell D3. The original classics (D1 & D2) were superior in every way.
Want a nice understanding of life? Try Spirit Science: "The Human History"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8NNHmV3QPw&feature=plcp
Recognize the voice? Yep sounds like Penny Arcade's Extra Credits.
Nice! I can get some sleep tonight.
On the off chance that you aren't just trolling, could you clarify what feels different about WoW's repetition from GW2's?
Must say , if you look away from the fact that there is allways a stupid panda on your screen, MOP for me have been by far the best xp since BC
Just love all the humor in the new quests, dont realy feel like such a grind when lvling
Well, the reason of 90% of flame on both forums in a nutshell
Flame on!
I believe the last statsitic was... 7 million area Asian "subs" 1.5 are Euro, and the rest is US.
From everyones favorite tool.... http://beta.xfire.com/games
5: Guild Wars 2 - 14721 hours
6: Diablo 3 - 14282 hours.
One 6 month old game and not an MMO and one 2 month old supposedly an MMO. Interesting.
This doom and gloom thread was brought to you by Chin Up the new ultra high caffeine soft drink for gamers who just need that boost of happiness after a long forum session.
In my personal experience, there is *A LOT* of variety in WHAT you can repeat, and within those, there's a lot of places/variations on the theme as well. It's just the sheer number of things you can go and to repetitive things in.
Is that fine?
http://lyrics.iztok.org/verse/Lynyrd_Skynyrd/Simple_Man/80615
repeating dynamic events were your own, poor imo, choice....guessing you did because it have been the most effective way to level up, dont know....but your choice non the less, not the game itself
I'd rather have their system personally, and just pay for the time spent. Only play 10 hours this month? That will be $0.60, please come again!
Unless there is a huge shift in gamers, I'd doubt D4 (if they dare release it) will outsell D3. The original classics (D1 & D2) were superior in every way.
So, Asians arent subscribers because they dont pay monthly? Is that it?
Do you even know what a "subscription" is?
In this case a subscription is where a customer pays money for a service for a set amount of time.
In US and Europe that set amount of time is a month.
In parts of Asia that set amount of time is an hour.
So, whats the difference?
Lastly, Asia is more than just China and not all Asian countries pay hourly. Your argument comes off as dismissive and racist.
That is only your opinion.
The new skill run system in D3 is much more fun to me than the old skill tree in D1 & 2. You can change and try different builds much easier, and there many more combinations of what you can do.
Obviously 10M is a very high bar to beat, and D4 is not announced. If it is made 10 years from now (took 12 to make D3), who knows what the world is like in 10 years.
However, an expansion is announced. We can see whether it sells well. Personally, i think it will sell as well as WOW expansions. You obviously may disagree but we will know who is right when it is out.
Congrats to Blizz for sure.
As much as I hate the new talent trees (if you can still call them that), and think pet battles is absolutely retarded...
I actually don't mind the Pandaren and the new zones w/ Chinese flavor.
And no one has yet come close to matching the Blizzard/WoW dungeon experience.
I just freaking love running dungeons in WoW on my Ele / Resto Shaman.
Actually D3 numbers went up after 1.05, which is a very good patch. My take is that the playstyle of D3 is close enough to a MMO that it is played like one. I think it is the 3rd if you only count MMOs (#1 wow, #2 GW2, #3 D3).
It is kind of interesting when D3 has a lot LESS content than typicall MMO, although part of the dungeon content is random.
Probably 10+ fewer dollars spent per month, on average, per "subscriber" in china.
There's a reason why Blizzard tries hard to make chinese subscribers equal to US/EU subscribers. It makes things look and sound better.