Hearthstone pulls in $20 million a month

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Carl2291 said:

Warcraft is over 20 Years old now. Each RTS sold stupidly high numbers, and the MOBA genre came from a Warcraft 3 mod.

World of Warcraft peaked at 12 Million subscribers, IIRC. Not 12 Million total sales, but subs at a certain point. The Warcraft TCG was running for 6/7 Years, and was replaced by Hearthstone which has taken the TCG world by storm in popularity with over 30 Million registered accounts. Add on to that several best selling novels by accomplished writers, the lore has expanded to literally Millions of people worldwide.

The Warcraft film thats being made right now has a budget north of $100 Million. You can bet it wont be just Warcraft enthusiasts who go and see it.

Warcraft as a franchise, right now, is one of the biggest on the market.

Right, that was 12 million people all playing and paying at the same time - how many played total?  If we look at just World of Warcraft the game - it says 10 million in sales.  And I know you needed the base game for Lych King, Burning Crusade, etc.  So I think our numbers have to be off - or people bought digital and we can't see them.   Plus Warcraft I, II, III, but some of them (like me) overlaped with the 'World' too.

Oh, yea, the Movie.  Hopefully it will be really good.  The still I have seen look good.  I think much will depend if they make it too 'for the kids' or they make it more of a raw less friendly story.

So it's looking like more peole are playing hearthstone than played the other Warcraft games.  So perhapse it attracked a good number of new consumers?