vlad321 said:
HappySqurriel said:
Ail said:
Doubt War will affect Wow significantly.
First you have to calm down with preorders numbers, everyone still remember Age of Conan release, 1 millions units sold and everything, fact is the game is kinda bombing.
Secondly War is coming out at a relatively bad time as Wotlk is coming out in less than 2 months and it will be very tough to compete with that for War.....
In all likelyhood Wow is going to pass the 13 million suscribers mark sometime in the next 12 months ( they were at 11.9 a few months ago). |
Yeah, but WAR doesn't really have to compete with WoW in order to be very successful ... After all costs of running the game are factored in, for every player playing WAR they (potentially) make $100 per year. At 1 Million users for 2 years (something I think WAR can manage) they will make $200 Million not including initial game sales.
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Makes you wonder just how much money WoW has made Blizzard. It's been running on 4 years now and it's reach near 12 million subscribers. I doubt all subscribers were paying for all 4 years but still. And then we can just factor in the initial sales of $50 and we end up with a really big number here. Wonder if it will end up making them a billion by the end of its lifetime.
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I suspect that WoW passed $1 Billion awhile ago, although I do believe that a large portion of their userbase are in countries where they're (probably) not paying $100 per year.
