Vivendi reports Blizzard's first billion-dollar year

orodeon

Originally posted by saint4God

Originally posted by orodeon


actualy starcraft is still a best seller in foreign countrys  they play it as a sport in south korea and have televised matches...

 

Does gaming qualify as a sport?  It would make the next olympics more interesting than previous years.

well in south korea it is lol

 

Kordesh

 A fool and his money...

and Blizzard found themselves a town of exiled court jesters.

Loke666

I wonder how many % of wows income Blizz put back in the game?

TenSpotting

Blizzard is a front for the Mafia

Cabe2323

Originally posted by Loke666


I wonder how many % of wows income Blizz put back in the game?

 

Supposedly not a whole lot.  Most of the money goes back into Vivendi's coffers.

saint4God

Originally posted by Kordesh


 A fool and his money...
and Blizzard found themselves a town of exiled court jesters.

 

Oh but how much fun it is to a fool be! 

Conley

 

Blizzard today very much reminds me of Nintendo in the 90-ies. Back then when it came to adventure gaming, nothing could touch The Legend of Zelda, when it came to platform action, nothing could touch Mario and even spin offs like Mario Kart dominated their respective genres.

 

I remembering many game companies tried to compete.  Sonic had its own style and fast furious action but overall its depth didn't come near that of Mario World/64.

 

Many action adventure games where also created, sometimes it seemed Sega launched a new Zelda clone every month, but none of them touched the level of quality and perfection that Nintendo achieved. 

WoTLK and frankly the entire WoW series is pretty much like that. The next generation "Zelda" if you will (not in terms of gameplay, but certainly in terms of being ahead of competitors). 

The new expansion is once again on a level of quality that is so high that you already know that no competitors will get near it the following couple of years.  

saint4God

I think the big difference here is volume.  Blizz has had the same 1 game out since 2004-ish and still going very strong.  Still selling, still monthly subscriptions.  Nintendo had to keep cranking out new and different games (and consoles) to renew interests.  I don't have satistical comparison, but they're the biggest boatload of monthly income I know of historically.

donjn

Originally posted by saint4God


I can only imagine what the numbers will be for the beginning of 2009...

Brutal Thread Necro by the way.

saint4God

Originally posted by donjn


Brutal Thread Necro by the way.

 

Hehe, and you're helping ^_^