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mirgro on 18 November 2009
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Ail said:
mirgro said:
Ail said:
 

 

Blizzard lost more than a hundred million dollars in the years leading to Wow release. It was not evident because it was hidden deep within Vivendi games accounting, but it was there.

Blizzard is doing fine now because they have a cash cow game which you can not pirate ( no credit card no play Wow, period...). The only way to play Wow on Blizzard's server is to pay the fee or steal someone's credit card information ( playing on a pirate server just does not compare).

And weirdly enough most of the people that have no issue pirating games balk at stealing credit card information from others...

 

Lastly for all the praise you give to Blizzard they are going in the same direction as IW with Starcraft 2, putting restriction in how you will be able to play the game in network ( forcing you to use battlenet in this case).

I kinda wanna see those hundreds of millions, I'd be interested in the article where you got it from. Also note that I said Blizzard was doing fine until Activision got them. Now hey are going down the shitter.

Google, vivendi results , look at the games subsection, search for years prior to Wow release...

 

I did all I could find was that in 2003 (here blizzard only released Frozen Throne) was 28% weaker for Vivendi Universal Games while 2002 brought in near 1 bil for them (when Warcraft 3 was released). There was nothing specific about Blizzard in particular.