Probably from the continued snowball of Alliance -> Horde, but mostly the new races. Lots of people just race changed rather than leveling.
Probably from the continued snowball of Alliance -> Horde, but mostly the new races. Lots of people just race changed rather than leveling.
Very interesting graph. Thanks for posting it (no sarcasm .... it really is interesting to me).
It takes very few micro transactions to make up for a canceled subscription and Blizzard seems to be riding that wave. Mounts and pets always sell well. Increasing leveling times makes boosts attractive to those with new race characters. Bottom lines drive this game (and always have), but now they have ways to cover less subscribers. In the early years, content attraction governed the subscribers and the bottom line.
Activision stock has dropped significantly since October 1st where it closed at $83 a share. Today it closed at $63 a share.
AFTER HOURS trading so far has it dropping even more significantly to $56 a share (currently).
That's pretty significant.
O_o
I agree with the bolded. All of their games are melded together, so there is no way to know which games are doing well.
With the $15 per sub per month revenue stream, I would expect WOW to be fine.
With no revenue stream, I would expect the PC version of Diablo to be changed.
The other games seem to each be making quite a bit of cash, so I would expect that they will be fine, but I don't know how since I don't play them.
All in all, Blizzard is still one of the top gaming companies in the world, and they seem to be doing what they have to do to survive. And surviving is something that iconic brands like GE and Sears are struggling with.
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I bet it did. When I came back for WoD I dropped $100 on server transfers almost immediately because everyone I knew had moved, but I only played for a month before unsubbing for the rest of the expansion. I like alts so I've never bought a boost, but with the addition of allied races combined with people who hate leveling I'm sure that was a boon too not to mention race/faction changes.
"We must now recognize that the greatest threat of freedom for us all is if we go back to eating ourselves out from within." - John Anderson
Dragonflight Nerfs vs fun again show a Blizzard that hasn't learnt a lesson, Actions speak louder than words afterall watch what they do and do not do.
Translation: "We decreased the leveling speed so much that everybody got fed up and bought character boosts."The expansion saw strong participation in value-added services.
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Ahhh, the Internet - where hyperbole and anecdotes are considered perfectly fine substitutes for actual data
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This forum is FULL of people who apparently "unsubbed months ago" yet still post here regularly about exactly why they dislike BFA.
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Allied races working as intended.
Never underestimate the unknown, or some shit. *shrugs i unno*
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I'm not unsubbed yet, but this expansion is the first time in 12(almost 13 years) of playing that I've just about had enough. I stuck through so much shit, like the entirety of Warlords, I never quit raiding once through all the droughts from last tiers to release of new expansions, but truthfully...I just hate this expansion.
And my main gripe is the raid which ties into class problems. To be as specific as possible, what bothers me most is 3 of the last 4 Mythic bosses in Uldir heavily punish you if you have more than 4 melee, not saying it's impossible, but having more than 4 is a severe handicap. That said, if you're running meta tanks(which most guilds do) of DK/Monk then you have 2 melee spots locked for a Warrior and a Demon Hunter for their raid buffs, this leaves 2 spots available for melee to be a part of. If you don't have a Monk tank...that's 3 of 4 spots locked and only 1 open melee spot.
Why is this a problem? Well it heavily punishes people for playing classes they enjoy playing. It leaves at best 2 spots available for melee, when melee dominate the spec to spec variable to ranged. In terms of numbers 14 of their 25 dps specs are melee across 9 Classes. Where as the remaining 11 of 25 are ranged spread across 6 Classes. There's both more melee classes and more melee specs, and when they design a raid so poorly(it's Tomb of Soakgeras all over again) it punishes players who like to play the majority of what's in the game.
Got to be some broke whales if they can get drained from WoW, ever played a game with real MTX? There are plenty of examples of players dropping a million dollars or more.
Maybe you are just very broke and you get jealous every time you see someone with an ingame store mount? I never get when people are sad about cosmetics being for sale in a game. They pay for themselves and then some.
When “cosmetics” and other “value added services” are the main goal of all changes to the game mechanics which are heavily disliked by players - that is when you went wrong and are loosing people who had a hardon for your game before. You are replacing them, very actively, with whales who don’t care for fanboy stuff. It’s like with Diablo Immortal - people didn’t boo it, but the decision to NOT bring it to PC. Same with “value added services” - people don’t dislike them as long they are not the dominant common denominator for all changes to the game.
If you don’t see anything wrong there, I am sorry for your ethics and/or standards.
As for real mtx - read my sig - Activision is mtx based for years now, mostly thanks to King. No reason to not spread “best in group solutions” across all companies.
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It had nothing at all to do with Immortal. Their stock has been dropping since early October due to CoD sales being lower then expected and dropped more when they missed their financial target for this quarter and expect a little less next quarter. In the end gaming companies stocks are volatile and they'll regain this 10% in the next week or 2.
Even if you take everyone at Blizzcon into account, its still a tiny fraction of the total pool of customers. That's the logic they'll use, anyway.
But that picture of how barren the lines to access the demo is pretty damning. I heard it was sparse....but holy crap. Feels like there should be some tumbleweeds. XD