Blizzard 4th-2nd most profitable gaming company in the world.

[Chickat]

Isn't Hearthstone & HotS free and requires money from ingame stores? I can't see that pushing Nintendo anywhere

Hearthstone is making nearly 250m a year atm and that could increase. HoTS and Overwatch will probably do very well too. With the WiiU failing, Nintendo is probably making less money in 2015 than they were in 2012.

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Isn't Hearthstone & HotS free and requires money from ingame stores? I can't see that pushing Nintendo anywhere

So Isnt LoL and it makes as much or more money than WoW now.

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Dont underestimate ftp.

[Bakis]

I wouldlove to see profit numbers too for comparison.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

Date: 12.10.13

ops, I was wrong with WG. http://www.newzoo.com/free/rankings/...game-revenues/

HS a money maker? Hardly, WoW is the cow, milk and cream of BLZ.

You did not take time to check last Q sales did you?

Hearthstone have over 30 millions different players. Hearthstone and destiny combined made over 1b in revenue. Considering the fact that destiny doesn't have any king of in-game market nor active subscription...

PS: Destiny sold roughly 16 millions boxes. I let you have some fun with the numbers.

PS2: Please take the time to take a look at the last quarter call. It's definitely worth it. Honestly, realizing that Wow isn't the beast it used to be for Blizzard can put some things back in perspective.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

World of Tanks isn't a fun game to me. More tactical then necessary IMO.

[Bakis]

You did not take time to check last Q sales did you?

Hearthstone have over 30 millions different players. Hearthstone and destiny combined made over 1b in revenue. Considering the fact that destiny doesn't have any king of in-game market nor active subscription...

PS: Destiny sold roughly 16 millions boxes. I let you have some fun with the numbers.

Yea I read like Winnie the poo :/
That is interesting too, the numbers I mean. Cos HoS is a really development light game. Everyting is made and it is just to dump new cards.
Unless they want to go the Magic way which I highly doubt there wont be any addiotion that need an overall altering such as adding another trigger for a card such as Battlecry, Discard a card etc that is in the game now.

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World of Tanks isn't a fun game to me. More tactical then necessary IMO.

Same as with WoW some have multiple accounts.
Latest numbers I can find real quick is 2013, that is before the Xbox launch and it is 60M accounts.
And 1,1M actual playing each month
Yet #1 on revenue.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Same as with WoW some have multiple accounts.
Latest numbers I can find real quick us 2013, that is before the Xbox launch and it is 60M accounts.

I tired World of Tanks. Felt too tactical and I'm trying to figure it out. I die and my tank is destroyed >.>

[Bakis]

I tired World of Tanks. Felt too tactical and I'm trying to figure it out. I die and my tank is destroyed >.>

WoT is kinda both noob friendly and noob rape.
One can play low tier lets say up to tier6-7 just fine cos people are idiots. It is also the threshold that F2P really works, after that one has to pay or level sloooow.
At tier8-10 you are fucked as a noob.

The game is really, really complex in details to keep in mind. I had a friend playing who learnt the heard way and he tought me bit by bit as well as I found it out myself.
That is the cool thing about the game. I guess an anecdot would be WoW random soloplay battlegrounds & PvP guild queing for rated BG.

[Mayhem]

Alright, you people could´ve told me that my link doesn´t work. For some weird reason if you click it you need an prem account to see the stats, if you use the link google offers after a search it´s there.

So here´s a screenshot from current stats:
googled this "revenue of video game publishers"

[Bakis]

Im picky and a tiny bit off topic, I want PC games (per game) not poor-mans-PC ie consoles included

[Chickat]

Can we all agree that Blizzard is the largest developer? You could count Microsoft and sony etc but for the most part they just publish.

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Can we all agree that Blizzard is the largest developer? You could count Microsoft and sony etc but for the most part they just publish.

But they're not

[Bakis]

Can we all agree that Blizzard is the largest developer? You could count Microsoft and sony etc but for the most part they just publish.

By most metrics yes.

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But they're not

Hms the top above BLZ, dont they all have a significant part of their revenue as publishing only?
Unsure of Tencent though, actually never heard of them :l

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By most metrics yes.

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Hms the top above BLZ, dont they all have a significant part of their revenue as publishing only?
Unsure of Tencent though, actually never heard of them :l

Well what does biggest developer mean? Numbers? Most games?

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Cos HoS is a really development light game. Everyting is made and it is just to dump new cards.
Unless they want to go the Magic way which I highly doubt there wont be any addiotion that need an overall altering such as adding another trigger for a card such as Battlecry, Discard a card etc that is in the game now.

This is a poorly worded sentence so I might have read it wrong but they are adding new mechanics to Hearthstone. There's 2 new ones coming out with the new expansion in 4 days or whatever.

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This is a poorly worded sentence so I might have read it wrong but they are adding new mechanics to Hearthstone. There's 2 new ones coming out with the new expansion in 4 days or whatever.

new mechanics to a card game?

[Bakis]

Well what does biggest developer mean? Numbers? Most games?

By the thread and OP I guess revenue. Althought a few more are interesting.
As a non-PS2,3,4,5,6 SONY person I dont really know how much of the revnue that is internal devlopment, if I would have to guess not alot(?).

[Post]

new mechanics to a card game?

Yes new mechanics to a card game.

[Sussemilch]

Unsure of Tencent though, actually never heard of them :l

They do some game knockoffs, hold patents, distribute in China, and oddly enough

Tencent took part in Activision Blizzard splitting from Vivendi as a passive investor and owns now about 12% of the shares.

[Bakis]

They do some game knockoffs, hold patents, distribute in China, and oddly enough

Ah okey, to be lazy we rule out patents as distribution too
Am I totally wrong if I think that MS actually develop more than SONY?