Originally posted by ambiorix maybe the guy never heard of a worldwide crisis that hits especialy hard on europe and the usa and that this could be one of the reason's why some people stop playing?
A great many of the people who stopped playing were in China. Which is odd, because they're making even more money from their Chinese subscriptions (or however they gather the money in...wheelbarrows probably).
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
WoW can't possibly be losing 900k to 1.6 million players, since it doesn't have that many to begin with. You can't count somebody who downloaded a free trial or registered for the game or played a few months or years or just periodically as a regular player. Most WoW players left the game years ago or only play it off and on, with so many quality free games out there like DDO (best combat system EVER), LOTRO (WoW clone done better than WoW), City of Heroes/Villains, and now DC Universe Online, among others. I usually play WoW 1 or 2 months a year so my roommate and I can get our fixes of something different, grab the free Christmas junk, and get sick of it all over again and then cancel it til the next year so we can get back to playing actual fun games. I seriously doubt WoW has 500k active subscribers who play it every month.
WoW can't possibly be losing 900k to 1.6 million players, since it doesn't have that many to begin with. You can't count somebody who downloaded a free trial or registered for the game or played a few months or years or just periodically as a regular player.
there's one in every thread. they are very strict about who they count as a subscriber for these numbers. If they used your definition the numbers would never go down.
A great many of the people who stopped playing were in China. Which is odd, because they're making even more money from their Chinese subscriptions (or however they gather the money in...wheelbarrows probably).
Do you base that on any actual numbers? The article said nothing about where people quitting are from, and Blizzard have as far as I know been quit about it as well, last time they mentioned how big percentage of their players were from China was in early 2009 to my knowledge.
And they don't make more money on Chinese customers, no way. The company that manages the game in China want some of the profits as well, and the hourly fee model in China will only generate more money from absolute fanatics.
It ios of course possible that Chinese people buy more junk in the cash shop, but westerners buy some crap as well so I doubt they earn more on Chinese players, particularly without any good numbers supporting it.
All that said, downgrading the stocks just based on Wow is stupid unless they know something about Diablo 3 that we don't know. Blizzard is more than Wow and A-B is more than Blizzard. For all we know might Diablo 3 become a really huge success that will pull in more money than Wow are "losing".
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A great many of the people who stopped playing were in China. Which is odd, because they're making even more money from their Chinese subscriptions (or however they gather the money in...wheelbarrows probably).
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
WoW can't possibly be losing 900k to 1.6 million players, since it doesn't have that many to begin with. You can't count somebody who downloaded a free trial or registered for the game or played a few months or years or just periodically as a regular player. Most WoW players left the game years ago or only play it off and on, with so many quality free games out there like DDO (best combat system EVER), LOTRO (WoW clone done better than WoW), City of Heroes/Villains, and now DC Universe Online, among others. I usually play WoW 1 or 2 months a year so my roommate and I can get our fixes of something different, grab the free Christmas junk, and get sick of it all over again and then cancel it til the next year so we can get back to playing actual fun games. I seriously doubt WoW has 500k active subscribers who play it every month.
there's one in every thread. they are very strict about who they count as a subscriber for these numbers. If they used your definition the numbers would never go down.
Do you base that on any actual numbers? The article said nothing about where people quitting are from, and Blizzard have as far as I know been quit about it as well, last time they mentioned how big percentage of their players were from China was in early 2009 to my knowledge.
And they don't make more money on Chinese customers, no way. The company that manages the game in China want some of the profits as well, and the hourly fee model in China will only generate more money from absolute fanatics.
It ios of course possible that Chinese people buy more junk in the cash shop, but westerners buy some crap as well so I doubt they earn more on Chinese players, particularly without any good numbers supporting it.
All that said, downgrading the stocks just based on Wow is stupid unless they know something about Diablo 3 that we don't know. Blizzard is more than Wow and A-B is more than Blizzard. For all we know might Diablo 3 become a really huge success that will pull in more money than Wow are "losing".
Yeah... i'll play GOW 2, SWTOR too, but not any more with WoW, i don't know why.. for me it was enough after the Lich King..
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