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New Quarterly Earnings Record Achieved in Q3 | Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft | MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited November 2015 in News & Features Discussion

imageNew Quarterly Earnings Record Achieved in Q3 | Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft | MMORPG.com

Ahead of today's Activision-Blizzard investors' meeting, a document has been published that reveals that Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has set a new earnings record in Q3 2015 and that year-over-year player engagement is an impressive 77%.

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  • expressoexpresso Member UncommonPosts: 2,218
    So no info regarding Heroes of the Storm player count and revenue? hummm
  • LobotomistLobotomist Member EpicPosts: 5,981
    edited November 2015
    And than they invested 6 billion dollars ( By comparison GDP of United Kingdom  is 3 billion dollars) in Candy Crush.

    Basically all the money WoW franchise has ever made is now used to buy a mobile phone game developer that is going the way of Zynga



  • HorusraHorusra Member EpicPosts: 4,411
    zymurgeist said:
    Hots has a matchmaking problem. It's also a very new and little understood game. You're totally  at the mercy of your team mates when it comes to winning. It's not going to in their top five, or even ten money earners but it's doing well enough that they'll be working on it. The monetization itself is well done.
    I play Hots but I find little reason to spend money on it.  With work I got all the heroes I want.  The boost packs are unneeded.  By the time I raise 10k in gold the price of the newest hero is 10k.  So no need to buy.  Costumes do not interest me nor mounts.
  • PhryPhry Member LegendaryPosts: 11,004
    DMKano said:
    zymurgeist said:
    Hots has a matchmaking problem. It's also a very new and little understood game. You're totally  at the mercy of your team mates when it comes to winning. It's not going to in their top five, or even ten money earners but it's doing well enough that they'll be working on it. The monetization itself is well done.


    The real problem is not the game - it's that vast majority of MOBA playerbase has zero interest in anything outside of LoL and Dota2. 

    Everyone who us going against LoL and Dota2 is basically hitting the same wall - can't budge the players away from those 2 games.

    True enough, Smite has probably been circling the drain for just that reason. The only quesiton is, will HoTS be more successful than Smite was?
  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332
    This is nothing more than Blizzard trying to coerce their stocks. I cannot believe people are so silly to spend any money at all on mobile phones,a phone is to call someone for a reason,not to game on some puny screen with terrible controls. Blizzard runs it's business very shallow,like offering rewards in other games while playing a different game.Sorry but if i am playing Hearthstone i don't want your crappy HOTS rewards,i want HS rewards.

    Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.

  • simsalabim77simsalabim77 Member RarePosts: 1,607
    DMKano said:
    zymurgeist said:
    Hots has a matchmaking problem. It's also a very new and little understood game. You're totally  at the mercy of your team mates when it comes to winning. It's not going to in their top five, or even ten money earners but it's doing well enough that they'll be working on it. The monetization itself is well done.


    The real problem is not the game - it's that vast majority of MOBA playerbase has zero interest in anything outside of LoL and Dota2. 

    Everyone who us going against LoL and Dota2 is basically hitting the same wall - can't budge the players away from those 2 games.

    That's probably because they're better than the competitors. 
  • cyphorcyphor Member UncommonPosts: 131
    edited November 2015
    Lobotomist said:
    And than they invested 6 billion dollars ( By comparison GDP of United Kingdom  is 3 billion dollars) in Candy Crush.

    Basically all the money WoW franchise has ever made is now used to buy a mobile phone game developer that is going the way of Zynga
    The GDP of the UK is 3 trillion dollars, not billion...a small difference. Also, like it or loath it, Candy Crush Saga has been one of the biggest grossing games on mobile devices for years, I hardly think they will have overvalued such a large investment. I would be curious to see HOTS player numbers though, while it wont be able to put scratch into the competition, it would be interesting to see if it's managing to carve a niche for itself in the market.
  • eddieg50eddieg50 Member UncommonPosts: 1,809
    I played a ton of hearthstone, and than discovered HOTS and switched over,, I really enjoy the game except when whiners play
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