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Activision-Blizzard userbase declines (taken from reddit)
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https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/9vfm7j/activision_blizzards_userbase_declines_despite/
and direct link to what was posted
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/activision-blizzard-shares-fall-10-percent-after-reporting-decline-in-monthly-active-users.html
They've seen quite a drop in playerbase for their game catalogue
Quote from the 2nd link
"The video game company, which owns the Call of Duty and World of Warcraft franchises, reported 345 million monthly active users, down from 352 million in the previous quarter"
and direct link to what was posted
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/activision-blizzard-shares-fall-10-percent-after-reporting-decline-in-monthly-active-users.html
They've seen quite a drop in playerbase for their game catalogue
Quote from the 2nd link
"The video game company, which owns the Call of Duty and World of Warcraft franchises, reported 345 million monthly active users, down from 352 million in the previous quarter"
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So far I've seen the recent share price decline blamed on the D3 mobile announcement, lower than expected upcoming 4th quarter earnings, now it's due to reporting a minor drop in active player numbers.
With "all" of this bad news, it's a wonder the stock didn't drop 50% by now.
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Also while it was posted on reddit, it was actually on CNBC which is a legit news source. Unless you are one of those "fake news" people that troll the internet.
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I hope you get banned or warned for targeted harrassment, since I flagged it.
The other poster I noticed that gets targetted by negative posts and harrassment is that delete person with whatever numbers after his name. Plus a few posters over the years that discussed what an MMO was or not and people here didn't agree with it so mass harrassed them until he was perma banned cause oh no a different view of what an MMO is or not.
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https://www.mmorpg.com/news/activision-blizzard-investors-sell-off-stocks-after-cautious-earnings-expectation-for-q4-revealed-1000050475#vanilla-comments
The MAU drop - over 200M in the last 2 years - is driven by King; pushing 50% if you go back a bit more. King - the makers of Candy Crush, Farmville etc. Blizzard's numbers however have also declined in that time. Anyway - see the above thread.
I can say with 100% accuracy that Hearthstone has lost a LOT of players.I know some big names now sharing time between HS and MTG and some big names have completely left the game as well there are at times much longer que times than before.
I often wondered what would happen to the game if que times become too long,like 2+ minutes.A change in game design or just a steady fallout.I am not surprised Hearthstone is dying out,i am way more surprised it took this long.The cost to play is way over the op and UNWARRANTED greed.It would not be so bad or so much greed if these were paper cards and we owned them,instead it is just digital,once you make one copy it doesn't cost anymore to make.
Overall i do not see much to worry about,Blizzard's games are imo very low cost games,it is not costing them much to make them.The problem is they do carry a lot of overhead cutting into some of that profit.
The question is still there,WHY are investors starting to pull out?You don't worry about going from billions to still millions,your still filthy rich and still doing quite well.So somehow they see a bigger long term picture where the stock will lose so much value they will be freaking out,so some getting out now while it's still good.
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You are not wrong. At the end of 2015 AB reported Hearthstone alone had 40M+ and now all Blizzard games are at 37M.
Large those Blizzard's numbers are they are dwarfed by those of King which have plunged. From 550M in mid-2015 shortly before Activision Blizzard bought them to 263M now. A drop of well over 200M.
Now having pushed MAUs as a key metric AB are doing what they can to control the damage and put a good spin on things. For example they reported that the average session time of Activision, Blizzard and King games was now a record 50-odd minutes. Its just sums though. Sessions of Candy Crush etc. tend to be short and they have lost hundreds of millions - as a result the average playtime has gone up. However its presented as "growth".
Anyway: https://www.mmorpg.com/news/activision-blizzard-investors-sell-off-stocks-after-cautious-earnings-expectation-for-q4-revealed-1000050475#vanilla-comments
In reference to the topic of the thread. I don't give a crap about Blizzard's declining numbers. I think they'll be just fine. All they have to do is release a new type of game on PC and everyone will be like, "Oh, Blizzard, where have you been all my life?"
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