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  1. #21
    Quote Originally Posted by BenBos View Post
    Well, it IS in contrast with Zynga games and their free to play stuff.

    Subscriptions have been a fixed income for the stock and as of now, WOW is the only kid in town with this regular income.

    I predicted that this would happen.

    One eye in the land of the blind as we would call it.

    Having 9.6 million paying subs while the rest of the MMORPG indusry turned (mostly) F2P and you have this lucrative market to you alone.

    It is a question of market posession really.
    And yet you still dont even understand the basic premise of why the stock jumped. It has very little to do with Blizzard and even less with WoW. If you look at the earning data on their year end stats you will see that the vast majority of the money is coming from Activision and not Blizzard. As others have said here its about Skylanders doing well and also the upcoming launch in China and also CoD.

    Additionally everyone would expect a stock jump with year end reports, you only have to look back at the trends of their stocks over the last 4-5 years and can easily see a jump each time the year end reports are issued.

    Cant believe I am bothering to reply to a BenBos post as I know any form of intellectual converse is out of the question with his one track close minded Blizzard can do no wrong white knighting crusade.

  2. #22
    Amusing.

    First of all, I don't know anything or care about some stocks or whatever, I couldn't even pretend I do. But I find it funny how when stocks drop, people attribute it to how shitty WoW has become and how people are quitting IN MASSES, and now that the stocks went up, people say how it has nothing to do with WoW.

  3. #23
    Quote Originally Posted by Oogly View Post
    Cant believe I am bothering to reply to a BenBos post as I know any form of intellectual converse is out of the question with his one track close minded Blizzard can do no wrong white knighting crusade.
    Same. He will likely get me infracted again.

  4. #24
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    Don't you guys get it? Everything bad that happens is because of ActivisionBlizzard. Everything good that happens has NOTHING to do with ActivisionBlizzard.
    Hell, if it wasn't for WoW being so terrible, stocks could be up 20%!
    Last edited by mmoc9a374e54bb; 2013-02-08 at 10:20 PM.

  5. #25
    "WoW is dead, Diablo 3 is a huge failure, Activision sucks, etc".

  6. #26
    Quote Originally Posted by det View Post
    C'mon..this didn't stop ppl in the "Wow down to 9.5 mill" thread to bring "stock owners are asking questions" into the discussion. All I see is: Whatever the outcome, Blizzard loses. That is how you can twist it. And since Apple stock dropped DESPITE a record earning (because investors expected MOAR" it just goes to show how fucked up ppl are.

    And considering what banks and the stock marked brought to us in the last few years in burning money and loss of jobs, I can even understand this obsession less. i would expect that all of us hip young gamers give these numbers a fat middle fingers cause NONE of us is getting any richer off this.
    But the answer is simple.

    First all these games that contributed to this record revenue were ALL slaughtered on Metacritic users. COD 2.2, D3 4.2 and MoP 4.5 ... /10.

    Secondly: Because - as I said DAYS ago - subscriptions and market position is FAR more important than so called in game issues by some forum dwellers.

    And the stock traders see the market first. (WOW as the only one left with decent subs and COD and D3 setting records in sales).

    Simple.

    It proves that forum dwellers and trash talkers ... are living in a kind of vacuum without much reality checks. That reminds me of that young MBA student who predicted stocks would crash (which made me reply I now understand why some stock traders steal your hard earned money).
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  7. #27
    Quote Originally Posted by Eskobar View Post
    Don't you guys get it? Everything bad that happens is because of ActivisionBlizzard. Everything good that happens has NOTHING to do with ActivisionBlizzard.
    I think I have found my new sig.

  8. #28
    Quote Originally Posted by det View Post
    C'mon..this didn't stop ppl in the "Wow down to 9.5 mill" thread to bring "stock owners are asking questions" into the discussion. All I see is: Whatever the outcome, Blizzard loses. That is how you can twist it. And since Apple stock dropped DESPITE a record earning (because investors expected MOAR" it just goes to show how fucked up ppl are.

    And considering what banks and the stock marked brought to us in the last few years in burning money and loss of jobs, I can even understand this obsession less. i would expect that all of us hip young gamers give these numbers a fat middle fingers cause NONE of us is getting any richer off this.
    Whatever the outcome Blizzard loses? Are you for real? They just made 1.6 billion I doubt they care about what people say on the forums and if they do I am sure they cry themselves to sleep burying their faces in pillow cases stuffed with hundred dollar bills. How are people fucked up? They have invested their money in a company if they feel it is not performing as well as it should then they are perfectly entitled to take their money out of that company and invest it elsewhere.

  9. #29
    Quote Originally Posted by Pann View Post
    Whatever the outcome Blizzard loses? Are you for real? They just made 1.6 billion I doubt they care about what people say on the forums and if they do I am sure they cry themselves to sleep burying their faces in pillow cases stuffed with hundred dollar bills. How are people fucked up? They have invested their money in a company if they feel it is not performing as well as it should then they are perfectly entitled to take their money out of that company and invest it elsewhere.
    Well.. blizzard are in a family of superstars and Daddy activision is like "so what have you done recently little blizzard? and they're all like "well er.. we are holding subscribers and still have our hold on the mmo market! we released mists and it seems good so far! HOTS is coming out soon!" and daddy activision responds with, "oh.. well that's nice but I was hoping you would go out and do something more. Maybe take a page from your little brother skylanders, look how he's taking the world by storm!"

    Blizzard knows in his heart that maintaining subs on an MMO is no easy task by itself, especially the amount they have. Daddy activison is little interested though. Sure he's not disciplining his son for being bad, but he is hardly the pride of the family right now.. his success is old news

  10. #30
    Quote Originally Posted by Raiju View Post
    Blizzard knows in his heart that maintaining subs on an MMO is no easy task by itself, especially the amount they have. Daddy activison is little interested though. Sure he's not disciplining his son for being bad, but he is hardly the pride of the family right now.. his success is old news
    Sorry if I'm misinterpreting what you're saying but, 9.6 million subscribers isn't success?
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  11. #31
    Project Titan = World of Skylanders

  12. #32
    Quote Originally Posted by Destil View Post
    Sorry if I'm misinterpreting what you're saying but, 9.6 million subscribers isn't success?
    9.6 million cookie sellers with 1 billion dollars fixed revenu is one thing, but doing this in a market where no one else is selling these cakes anymore , now THAT's the catch really.

    it is the wet dream of any business man: monopoly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eskobar View Post
    Don't you guys get it? Everything bad that happens is because of ActivisionBlizzard. Everything good that happens has NOTHING to do with ActivisionBlizzard.
    Hell, if it wasn't for WoW being so terrible, stocks could be up 20%!
    For a game that's doubled, or even tripled the gross income for all the call of duty games combined, anything that has to do with Mario, all the GTA games...I think WoW is doing just fine and Activision is raking in the money every year with a game making over 1.2 billion a year. Overall WoW has made over 10 billion dollars and it has no signs of stopping. It's the most successful franchise and will be for generations because it will take at least 10 years for a game to pass the success of WoW, as long as it is making 1 billion+ a year and I highly doubt that happens except for maybe the Blizzard project "Titan". But, you're right, WoW is terrible because you say it is!
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  15. #35
    Quote Originally Posted by BenBos View Post
    Well, it IS in contrast with Zynga games and their free to play stuff.

    Subscriptions have been a fixed income for the stock and as of now, WOW is the only kid in town with this regular income.

    I predicted that this would happen.

    One eye in the land of the blind as we would call it.

    Having 9.6 million paying subs while the rest of the MMORPG industry turned (mostly) F2P and you have this lucrative market to you alone.

    It is a question of market posession really.
    UO is kinda still pay2play.
    As is EVE online,
    And those are hardly the only ones.

    But yes, f2p is becoming more and more popular these days.

  16. #36
    Quote Originally Posted by phenix View Post
    Why would a stock gain 10% on unchanged subs numbers?...right no reason at all. Wow is a cash cow but it doesnt make the ATVI stock go up/down. The COD China, Skylanders, New IP etc does. Especially with a disappointing Wii U and no new consoles, skylanders reaching 100million units sold is what investors are looking at.


    any sound investor would tell you that the subs number is disappointing. Why? Not because it doesnt generate a fuck ton of money but because the number is stagnant ....meaning Blizz's performance has shown that 10million is the CAP for this MMO and that it probably wont ever see significant growth in the future. AS an investor, you're always looking for GROWTH (not stable revenues). ATVI is successful because it has proven it can use the cash from Blizz to create new IP's like Skylander and grow them into a 1 billion dollar business.
    This is the money post. My friend works for JP Morgan Chase as an investment risk analyst, he owns a hefty number of shares in ATVI. This is almost exactly what he told me. Skylanders is probably the most lucrative IP to come out in gaming in a decade. It's what Pokemon was in the late 1990s and early 2000s, on a higher level. All the periferals and game sales are a monster. People over look it here cus it's out of our demographic.
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    I wonder with the success of Skylanders and the projects to come like "Titan", the continued Starcraft 2 series, that investing in Activision NOW would be a solid choice for a stock investment.
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    Wait Wait a minute wasn't there a post about ATVI stock gunna drop a couple weeks ago ???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Palmz View Post
    I wonder with the success of Skylanders and the projects to come like "Titan", the continued Starcraft 2 series, that investing in Activision NOW would be a solid choice for a stock investment.
    Well Palmz, I can say I'm more rich today than I was yesterday .
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  19. #39
    If you are an investor your wet dream is a company with stable income that still has growth potential. That is exactly why the stock went up today. Blizzard = stable money income, while the Activision side is basically your growth potential. When the growth side nails a new product you see major jumps in prices, while the stable side of it keeps overall risk down.

    The smart ones already had the stock and are sitting back smoking their cigar and sipping their whiskey tonight :P

  20. #40
    Quote Originally Posted by Palmz View Post
    I wonder with the success of Skylanders and the projects to come like "Titan", the continued Starcraft 2 series, that investing in Activision NOW would be a solid choice for a stock investment.
    Skylanders is the big thing at the moment the big question is can ATVI continue to exploit it without turning people away like they did with Guitar Hero series.

    Quote Originally Posted by Archdruid Dehydrate View Post
    Wait Wait a minute wasn't there a post about ATVI stock gunna drop a couple weeks ago ???

    Well Palmz, I can say I'm alot richer today.
    Yes there was a post about ATVI stock that was to do with long term performance of ATVI this gain in no way proves the prediction right or wrong.

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