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The profits behind 10 million World of Warcraft subscribers

Dan Nicolae Alexa, from Playfuls.com:
"OK, now let's do some simple calculi: if all those 10 million subscribers were to pay the regular $14.99 month-to-month fee, then Blizzard would fill its pockets with almost $150 million every single month ($149 million to be exact, but of course there are people who pay for 3 or 6 months in advance). For the company that also brought usStarCraft and Diablo that means a revenue-target of more than $1.7 billion ($1,798,900,000) for FY 2008, if (and that's a BIG "if"...) they manage to keep ONLY 10 million subscribers for the 11 months left."

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Mr_Kuwabara5957d ago

The image explains it all...

Genki5957d ago

you couldn't have picked a better one.

Damn, I wish I was getting a piece of that.

TruthBTold5957d ago

daaaaammmmm, just on a freaking game, man I wish I would have bought some stock

Keyser5957d ago

I wonder what the infrastructure costs are, how much to keep the game up and running, servicing, adding new content costs. I guess I want to know how much of it is profit.

gnothe15957d ago

but you guys complain about 50 dollars for 1 YEAR of XBL, an people pay 15 a MONTH for 1 GAME, now how crazy is that!!

50 for 12 months XBL
180 for 12 months W O W

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Men of War 2 Review - War is Hellishly Complex | COGconnected

Men of War 2 is the sequel to 2009's Men of War. It's a multiplayer focused tactical RTS with over 400 units and three large campaigns.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows: Official Cinematic World Premiere Trailer

Assassin's Creed Codename Red becomes Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Relientk7756m ago

Even if it's just CGI, Ubisoft know how to make good trailers. I'll give them that. Every Assassin's Creed trailer I've seen was sick.

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Launches November 15, Features Dual Protagonists in Feudal Japan

Set in 16th century Japan, Assassin’s Creed Shadows will star Japanese shinobi Naoe, and real-life samurai Yasuke.

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Hugodastrevas44m ago

I wonder if it'll have the historic scenes of Nobunaga ordering Yasuke to strip and take a bath to confirm he wasn't painted that color.