According to SuperData Hearthstone makes 240 million dollars per year.

[Chickat]

As the digital card game market continues to outpace its physical counterpart, Hearthstone is coming out on top as one of the dominant forces in the genre. A recent Superdata report found that the game is raking in around $20 million every month.
Expanding to include the smartphone market was one of Hearthstone’s strongest moves, as the card game’s revenue climbed 31% after making the jump to the platform. Superdata notes that Blizzard is recreating the circumstances with Hearthstone that made World of Warcraft a breakout hit: “Hearthstone managed to disrupt the category in the same way World of Warcraft transformed massively-multiplayer online games (MMOs). Blizzard’s first digital card game has deep mechanics, but it is more accessible and streamlined than long-running games like Magic: The Gathering.”

The site’s analysts predict that the global digital card market will grow 5% in revenue between now and 2018. You can check out a chart of Hearthstone’s revenue as tracked by platform after the break.

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Last we heard the game was making 114m a year as of September 2014.



So I think its safe to say that Hearthstone is definitely doing to Online Card games what WoW did to mmos. Thoughts?

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With the growing revenue of Hearthstone, and likely HoTS and Overwatch, WoW may not need to be the cash cow anymore. At least not the only one.

[Deleted]

that chart makes me wonder how good "Crossfire" and "Dungeon Fighter Online" are, never heard of them

[Arthas242]

WoW is still what made Blizzard

They have to invest into so people will play/pay for there other games.

HotS wouldn't probably being doing as well without WarCraft *considering WC3 made the Moba market as a expample and Hearthstone obviously would of never happen without WoW.

WOW makes THEM at this point as much money off the side as it does it self anymore *considering cost*

[Army Dreamer]

That's kinda crap comparing to WoW.

[Chickat]

that chart makes me wonder how good "Crossfire" and "Dungeon Fighter Online" are, never heard of them

Crossfire


DFO

[Underverse]

That's kinda crap comparing to WoW.

But for the development time/cost, it's damn good.

[Chickat]

That's kinda crap comparing to WoW.

It will probably grow even more as it gets even bigger. With HoTS and Overwatch coming soon they will probably be making more per year off of those three than they do for WoW for the first time ever starting next year.

Also, as of Feb 2015 one analyst thinks HoTS will make 5-10m per month or 60-120m a year right off the bat. Source

[haxartus]

In my opinion Hearthstone is responsible for the shift in direction in Blizzard where they focus on smaller pvp games that have less development time and resources and still make a lot of profit.

[Chickat]

Is Blizzard the single biggest developer in the world?

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In my opinion Hearthstone is responsible for the shit in direction in Blizzard where they focus on smaller pvp games that have less development time and resources and still make a lot of profit.

MoP had plenty of development though it lasted about 5-6 months too long. WoD I agree on. Lets see how Legion is before we go making statements like that.

[Takure]

They are delusional if they think WoW only made 700~ million dollars last year. Ill take this with a grain of salt.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Hax: It's probably more likely that Blizzard wanted to do something different then a MMORPG. They're a big developer that self publishes. They'd have to do more. While I'm not a fan of the Digital Card game, it obviously works. Same with Diablo, it obviously worked to a degree.

[Chickat]

They are delusional if they think WoW only made 700~ million dollars last year. Ill take this with a grain of salt.

Why? Subs are slipping, and at least half if not more of WoWs subs are eastern an only pay what equates to a couple dollars a month to play.

[Takure]

Why? Subs are slipping, and at least half if not more of WoWs subs are eastern an only pay what equates to a couple dollars a month to play.

At the end of 2014, there was 7.8 million subs. Take that down8 4 million (roughly half) and they are still making over 700 million dollars in subs alone. This doesn't include the REVENUE from the East, nor the all micro transactions. The fact is, WoW made Blizzard way more than 1 billion dollars in 2014.

'In 2013, WoWs market share in China was 38% - the closest competitor was at 9% with 240 million in revenue with a similar payment system. So it's safe to say in 2013; WoWs revenue from China was in excess of 7-800 million dollars. But considering that most of the "sub" drops during 2013-14 were from China, it's safe to assume that it market share was half of that, at around 20/5% - that's still in excess of 350 million dollars.'

[xenogear3]

But for the development time/cost, it's damn good.

This is a myth.

WoW is getting less and less content, and lost a raid tier.
Blizzard must move people from WoW to Hearthstone.

I just don't see how Hearthstone can grow any more.
It is real boring to play the same meta deck over and over.

[Chickat]

At the end of 2014, there was 7.8 million subs. Take that down8 4 million (roughly half) and they are still making over 700 million dollars in subs alone. This doesn't include the REVENUE from the East, nor the all micro transactions. The fact is, WoW made Blizzard way more than 1 billion dollars in 2014.

'In 2013, WoWs market share in China was 38% - the closest competitor was at 9% with 240 million in revenue with a similar payment system. So it's safe to say in 2013; WoWs revenue from China was in excess of 7-800 million dollars. But considering that most of the "sub" drops during 2013-14 were from China, it's safe to assume that it market share was half of that, at around 20/5% - that's still in excess of 350 million dollars.'

If you think Blizzard has ever made 2b dollars with WoW in a year you are delusional.

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This is a myth.

WoW is getting less and less content, and lost a raid tier.
Blizzard must move people from WoW to Hearthstone.

I just don't see how Hearthstone can grow any more.
It is real boring to play the same meta deck over and over.

There is an expansion every 4 months. Some would argue thats too fast.

[valcrist]

and its cause of hearthstone we are getting empty soulless games with no story or content just extremely repetive gameplay all designed to force you to grind 1000s of games or dump insane amounts of money into it, just extremely over priced nickle and diming games from blizzard. Probably wont see a new IP with a rich story ever again. I don't care what anyone says F2P games are ruining gaming and is causing a terrible practice across gaming.

[Takure]

If you think Blizzard has ever made 2b dollars with WoW in a year you are delusional.

I guess it would be nice to live in a world of ignorance.

[Torais]

What many people are not considering is that the chart is comparing gross revenue. The true gem of Hearthstone in the eyes of Blizzard-Activision is the far lower cost in overheads than compared to say WoW or LoL.

Hearthstone has a tiny team, lower requirements in network architecture and can churn out content faster and with less manpower. It is little wonder Blizzard are betting the farm on this and Heroes of the Storm.

[Saft]

I guess it would be nice to live in a world of ignorance.

They can't have made anywhere close to $2b a year. 12.5m subs was the peak but nowhere near that many payed $15 a month. $2b a year anywhere but at its absolute peak year is delusional as shit.

[Frozen Death Knight]

That's kinda crap comparing to WoW.

You're joking, right? Hearthstone was cheaper to create, is cheaper to produce content for and maintain infrastructure by design, can be played on practically any platform Blizzard so chooses, and makes a massive amount of money despite having a much smaller team of developers working on the game compared to WoW.

WoW takes a lot more resources to maintain than any of their other games released, so having a much smaller game like Hearthstone being able to compete with those numbers is a massive success.