Originally Posted by
Laurcus
So, I read through the quarterly reports, and the numbers listed by Gamespot and those listed in the quarterly report are not comparable.
The 624 million dollars made by lol is revenue. I couldn't find any revenue listing in the balance sheet or statement of cash flows. What I did find was net income, which is totally different from revenue.
Revenue is how much money you made.
Net income is how much money you made after subtracting operating costs.
The 837 million dollars of net income for 3 quarters of 2013 doesn't actually say how much money Acti Blizz makes, it says how much they retained. Theoretically, you could have revenue of 1 billion dollars, but a net income of only 1 dollar if you spent 999,999,999 dollars. Also, that 837 million is for the company, not World of Warcraft.
Without them posting their exact revenue amounts, we can't be sure how much money WoW pulls in pre operating costs, but conventional wisdom says that 7.6*15(12)=1368. In other words, off subs alone WoW has a revenue of ~1,368,000,000 dollars over a 12 month period.