Activision-Blizzard April-June revs hit $1B, WOW near 11M

i still love Blizzard, WoW its the best and most played MMORPG Congratulations Blizzard from Mexico! (i stopped playing WoW 4 months ago :P, but WoW its so fun and addictive!)

lol almost 11 million good lord... Im sure WOTWK will raise that even more.. I agree with VirginFingers AOC was the joke of the year, i got bored of it in less then a month... yeah it was bloody, but the gameplay was terrible and lacked major content.

Hah.... Age of Conan.... that was the jokeof the year.

not sure how wow is holding onto its people still, the game is a brutal chore. its depressing how much work it takes to get ahead

I don't what is the fuss about WoW! I tried it over my friends house and it sucked like hell. I'd rather play a mature bloody game like Age of Conan over a cartoony game like World of Warcraft

I play other MMo's than WoW not very immpressive, repetitive nonsens. Not saying it doesn't have a addictive gameplay.That said I've seen ppl wast a lot of money on WoW. No amount of cash beyond a billion would supris me.

Why are people getting so upset and acting as if WOW is their mother or something? WOW's graphics are not amazing nor high end by any 2008 standard. However, some people may find their artistic style to be appealing. That argument makes more sense. I, personally, do not like the cartoon type imagery but can understand why someone would like it.

I don't like WoW

i'm sure someone will find a way to mod it to the darker colors ...

oh and jimmyjimjim if you have that attitude with every game, then I'm surprised you are even on this website, you must find every video game boring xD I doubt you like crappy linear games like Halo then eh? Oh wait I bet you do... mikwaish69 people don't get bored because its addictive, but most of all they play to get the best gear in the game which isn't an easy thing to do, but then Blizzard brings out new content for them to explore and new bosses for them to try down. And because its an easy place to make friends worldwide (well it is if your on EU, US can't really make worldwide friends xD). For me the main reason I play WoW loads is cause I want to be the #1 player - won't happen but hey.

WoW's graphics are perfect, how can you say they're out dated when no other game (except Warhammer) has graphics like it? WoW's graphics excel artistically a lot more than most other games and no. Unlike all these "state of the art graphics engines" they won't go out of date as fast. Also @Badash, what's your point about WoW's subscribers mainly in Asia? That's the same with every other MMO, except there's at least 50 times more westerners playing WoW than any other MMO. "meanwhille so many freaks are addicted to wow, they don't play other pc games and the pc game industry crumbles." Bullsht. People play WoW mainly because it's a fun game, therefore successful. And a lot of people do play games other than WoW, it's just that people play WoW a lot longer than any other game. "A stupid cartoon game with no substance, a basic everquest rip-off that took out all the interesting fun things to add hum drum easiness and the lowest number of races/classes and variety of any mmo." lol tbh just lol. Explain to me then, why it's constantly come in PcGamers (who have some of the best reviews i've ever seen) top 5 best games ever played (from the 1980's until now). Why it's scored at least 9/10 on most reviews (and for an MMO!). I'll say why. It's a fun game. And what else do you look for in a game?

world69star69, WoW has graphics from 2001 because that was when it was first in development you idiot. And if you think graphics make a game you clearly are a fool, every single Blizzard Entertainment game has been a massive success and not one of them has had good graphics for their time - says a lot don't you think? Maybe you have a high specced PC with Intel quad core, 5GB RAM, HD ATI Radeon graphics card - GUESS WHAT? Most people do not have this and Blizzard know that, so they make thier game suitable for a WIDE range of PC's - oh look 10.9 million subscribers, seems to me that's what every single game developer for PC should do, Crysis is a complete failure, oh it looks good but I bet not many people have bought it. Metroidsax, 1. Activision don't DEVELOP games, they PUBLISH them for other DEVELOPMENT studios BIG DIFFERENCE. And Blizzard is not the one merging with Activision, it is Blizzard's publisher Vivendi Games - LEARN TO READ. Humourguy, you still get charged even if you cancel part way through month because people could then just cancel the subscription a day before the payment, then re-subscribe to refresh it, then monthly subscription people like Blizzard would never get any money - that doesn't require a lot of thinking to work out lol

wow thats alot of money

All the stupid wow fanatics will mark your comment down if you talk crap on acti-blizzard. Fact is they are a greedy company, the new EA. While ea is doing the right thing now. Dropping two great titles when they have that much cash is ridiculous! Why don't they make something new. How many guitar hero games do you need? Rock Band is much better. Then there is blizzard with wow. The mmo has horrible 2001 quality graphics that can be run on my pentium 3 laptop, meanwhille so many freaks are addicted to wow, they don't play other pc games and the pc game industry crumbles. Between blizzard and microsoft they are both responsible for the state of the pc game market today. I wish ms never made xbox and people would stop going nuts over wow! A stupid cartoon game with no substance, a basic everquest rip-off that took out all the interesting fun things to add hum drum easiness and the lowest number of races/classes and variety of any mmo. All the damn dwarfs look the same and have ugly noses, the night elves are all purple and green and look gay What the hell, the gameplay is boring, its so slow to start. I just don't get it. If it wasn't for Diablo series or starcraft (or the warcraft series pre-warcraft3) i wouldn't have anything to do with them.

I disagree with GriffinLord602, if you don't enjoy WoW within the first couple minutes, you probably won't enjoy the really advanced side of the game either.

... I never got into WoW thats for sure... I found the beginning to slow, and I know you gotta be patient with most MMO's to get into the good stuff, but I couldn't be bothered with it to be honest :L.

Activision and Blizzard, two of my favorite devs. I hope to see how things actually turn out.

Keep in mind that over half of WoW's subscribers are in asia and they pay significantly less to play the game than we do over here.

i hope it going to be good to play

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Where would they be without GH?

I wish I was one of the 11 Million. oh well.

sand is a pleasant mineral.

Good thing Activision doesn't get to decide squat on Blizzzard's lineup. If Ghostbusters and Brutal Legend get to see the light of the day, I will be delighted to spend my money on both games and make some other publisher richer.

@Humorguy_basic How are your suspicious? Everyones card is charged every month and they get X amount of money each month. You take that number and divide it by 14.95 and you get a rough estimate of how many people still let their account get charged. Are they all playing regularly? It doesn't really matter, its money in the bank. Gold farmers or not, they get $100mil a month in from subs, you can't really argue that.

Still suspicious of subscriber numbers for online games like WoW. We just do not get enough information. Laws should be brought in to make them give details like games that sell through normal retail. I have heard, for example, that if you subscribe for one month to an online subscribed game then cancel, you are still counted for the rest of the financial quarter!

Well lets hope they spread the love (and money) to their devs for given them all that success.

why would they put out a graphics update they are fine the way they are and it lets everyone play not just people with million dollar machines meaning more money for blizz

mcblarsen- I am with you on that. I want the Ghostbusters game.

earlthecannibal - Really? NO updates since BC? Forgotten about Sunwell, have we? ZA? Badge gear? PvP gear? Man...you need to read up on it.

That's nice.....now where's my Ghostbuster game?

This is great news. This is my favorite company hands down. They produce quality games and are rewarded handsomely for it. VERY handsomely. The money made by WoW's subscriptions alone is very impressive. Now there are a lot of big name game titles under one roof, just awesome.

I don't mean to be a hater but Activision has taken over for EA as the most hated Publisher. They put tons of highly anticipating games into limbo. They're flexing they're muscles with Guitar Hero and WOW. Which are both good franchises but to put everything else on the back burner is wrong. EA is triing to put more new IP's into the market, while Activision is focusing on their two big franchises. I believe this is a misuse of their new found power.

I love WoW Prob the reason I have no gotten burnt out is because every time my gamecard expires i take a 4 month break

10.9 million and still no graphics update or new content since bc.......and the reason ? people are happy with it the way it is... stupid people! they just dont get it do they ..if everyone is happy Blizzard doesnt have to work anymore. Thats why im not playing until a graphics update and at least two new classes come along ...any game you can play with a 32mb vid card and is shipped on multiple cd's is just plain lame imo.

10.9 million souls lost....

Kudos to Guitar hero- pure fun, only real losers quit at that game, just one thing Richers.. you've made so much dosh now how bout giving us some FREE track packs to download may I suggest TOOL or mudvayne and make all previous track packs on xbl free, c'mon you can afford it!! Also some name suggestions - Actird, Bli$$ion, ACTIBLIZZ, richierich

I gotta agree I got bored of wow around a year and a half ago and don't plan on going back even when the new expansion comes out. Cause basically it's just the samething over and over it's quiet boring and takes up too much time to get things done. I'm happy for Activsion Blizzard though and I hope they take down EA!!.

They're constantly updating the game, adding new features and stuff to keep the game fresh. And if that fails to rouse the crowd, they can just pump out another expansion pack to drive the masses into a frenzy. As amazing as WoW is, there are plenty of people who quit for various reasons. Hell, I had to drop the habit when I got to college (or else I'd flunk out), and I know a few friends who did the same thing. Thus, if Blizzard counted past WoW players in their subscription tally, they'd get a number than can easily exceed 11 million.

how do people not get bored after playing WoW for so long?? i'm not saying it's a bad game(it must be good if that many people can play it for so long) but how do you not say well i've had enough of this??

After reading about the games they had dropped, I am extremely glad I had nothing to do with Activision-Blizzard's success this year.

Great Job ActiBLizz:D Congradulations Hope you use your profits well:)

so great that a company can continue to screw us over and keep making record profits. Way to go morons! In a few years you'll have completely killed the pc market!

so why are people complaining about Actiblizzard not finishing/taking the Ghostbusters game, its being codirected by the Dan man himself, so wouldn't the story/gameplay be overall good quality? Sierra is making it...and they produce really interesting/fun games.

They should make a new WoW and make the max level 100,so they make another billion dollars in the next 5 years... -.-

wooooooooooow jast woooooooooooow

The other games aren't unnecessarily canceled, just ActiBlizz isnt publishing

gooo blizzard!!!!