So, Blizzard makes $165,000,000 every month! Holy ****! That's immense - is there any company that may be a rival? Blizzard can make everything!

can u provide a link

I'm sure that Blizzard has enough money that some day the United States are going to elect a president that afterwards is going to be like "I am a trillion dollar robot made by Blizzard to bring death and destruction to the world. Let a new age of darkness begin...we call it Diablo 4. I also want to set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. Mwahahaha."







I guess that is not very funny. Oh well.

There are 11,000,000 players, and the monthly fee is at $15, right?

Not all of those players pay as much as Americans do monthly. Particularly the ones in Asia, they pay much less.

Also, not even we pay that much. I always used the 6 month plan, which turned out to be $13 or so (I think).

Which begs the questoin as to why the fuck did they team up with Activision at all? They can do everything themselves now, development and production.

Should make for Diablo 3 to be EPIC!

And yet they want us to buy three copies of starcraft II one for each campain.....

Average worldwide price of a Wow subscription is 10$.

Price of a subscription is a lot lower in China and on top of that Blizzard uses a third party to host the servers and provide support, that third party pays them a fee out of the money it collects...

So worldwide revenue is more around 110 million$/month.

One thing not to forget is that there are huge costs associated with those revenue ( except the Chinese ones due to third party taking on the costs).

In the end I would be surprised if the profit per player was above 4$, it's probably less....

Profit of course peaks when expansion are released though...

Before anyone brings up the topic I should probably post this:

World of Warcraft's Subscriber Definition:

World of Warcraft subscribers include individuals who have paid a subscription fee or have an active prepaid card to play World of Warcraft, as well as those who have purchased the game and are within their free month of access. Internet Game Room players who have accessed the game over the last thirty days are also counted as subscribers. The above definition excludes all players under free promotional subscriptions, expired or cancelled subscriptions, and expired prepaid cards. Subscribers in licensees' territories are defined along the same rules.