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Wotlk to be released in China August 31st
expresso
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So WoW China will get a huge boost in players in September and a few months later the rest of the world with get cataclsym (still on track for November) triggering another huge boost in players.. I can see blizzard releasing a new press release with an all high sub/player number come December.
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So we now see the thread titles created in 2011 on this forum...(like 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
"It's a lie Blizzard : does NOT have 12.5 million players."
And the 1.4 billion dollars income is based on the pet shop and selling of authenticators.
I now declare this thread officialy opened for the Blizzard haters.
Welcome ...
LOL .. better yet .. "10M of the 12.5M players are GOLD FAMRERS" .. hahahhahah
And that , is how to keep a good game growing.
By releasing expansions? Duh.
Anyways, will be interested to see how this will go. It is not at all the same as the western expansions, they had to remake it without undeads since that is taboo in China.
And, no. Most Chinese players are not goldfarmers. You need at least 5 buyers to get a farmer who makes any money. And a lot of the gold that is sold is stolen from players with Phising and keyloggers.
And since Wow is moving more and more from the west to Chine selling gold is not as good deal anyways.
Will be interesting, yes.
But I'll 'predict' another thing: Chinese players will make up for 2/3 - and their part of the whole growing - of the total WoW subscriber base, and the rest of the world 1/3 (and diminishing). And Blizzard will never ever release their subs per region like for US or EU anymore, but only as a total from now on.
How's that for a prediction?
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
I'm a Blizz fanboi. But I don't think this announcement will mean much in terms of overall subscriptions
Remember, even when WOW in mainland china was closed, subscriptions did not fall. why? Because all of the chinesse players rerolled on the taiwan servers (which did not close down). In fact, some of the world-firsts were from a guild that completely rerolled. The chinesse 'servers' were closed, but players from mainland china were still allowed to log into the game in other countries.
Changing the graphics for china is stupid (and a waste of time), but in reality, china players are used to it since the foresaken already are changed along with every other undead type creature that existed in vanilla wow. Chinesse players are not going to say " I am not going to play because the graphics are stupid"... they've already had the stupid graphics the whole time.
Cata will be huge however, I'm guessing we hit 13 million before the end of the year, both because of a slight increase in china, but mainly because a huge amount of returning players who want to see all the changes as well as flying in the old world.
You mean Chinese player (by race) playing in US/EU servers?
Or you mean whoever (could be westerners in China) playing in Chinese servers?
Lol. Since the topic was WotLK being released in China, what do you think yourself which of the 2 I meant?
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
Why LOL?
You predict chinese (but yet to be defined what you mean by chinese) players will make up 2/3 of the player base.
That prediction is undefined unless you tell us whether it is 2/3 of the player base in chinese serves in china, or 2/3 of the players are chinese human beings in whatever servers. The first can be verified, the second is a wild guess, as no one, not even blizzard knows if the player/subscriber is a chinese, a male or a monkey.