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Blizzard's New Cash Cows

StarCraft: IncGamers has a guest column on Blizzard and what ways they will continue to gain money, if WoW indeed will become free-to-play, as discussed.

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Chazmers5028d ago

quite easily the main option is micro-transactions or even introducing premium content for SCII

Porco5028d ago

With mapmakers being able to create almost anything, what would that be, exactly?

Montrealien5028d ago

this is not the subject of the article, just the title and the blurb, that actual article goes a little deaper. however, since we are on the subject, If I am not mistaken, SC2 galaxy editor will let you make some good mods and sell them through bnet and Blizzard would take a cut from that.

Imagine if the makers of DoTa where able to sell their mod for 5$, or the best tower defense cost 1-2$, this has huge potential to be a cash cow.

Djorgo5028d ago

Interesting idea, but what?

More campaign material?

Porco5028d ago

Exclusive models and stuff?

Djorgo5028d ago

@ Porco - yeah, but those could easily be copied and added by mapmakers, making them not-so-exclusive... :P

Djorgo5028d ago

Free-to-play, ey?

So just taking after GW then?

Apollyn5028d ago

Because gw invented f2p mmo's

Montrealien5028d ago (Edited 5028d ago )

Well only the free to play part would be taking after GWs, similar free to play structures havebeen used in many games, even before GW came out. Taking after GW as a game would invole making wow an instance based mmorpg and destroying the persistent world which is the main difference between GW and WoW. With that Said, GW 2 seems be impleting many features only seen in persistent worlds which may prove to be some pretty solid competition to wow and that is why this article came to be, more competition may make Bliaard find a new subscription model.

Cogo5028d ago

Maybe not to take after, but to compete with them.

Porco5028d ago

Lovely illustration, I must say!

Vipermagi5028d ago

That was a pretty good read :) Keep it up.

Dorjan5028d ago

It might work, pretty cool to pay a subscription to play 3 games instead of just 1...

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An Update on This Year’s BlizzCon and Blizzard’s 2024 Live Events

Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."

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PRIMORDUS1d ago

How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.

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Microsoft has ‘let Blizzard be Blizzard’ following its acquisition, studio says

Microsoft has 'let Blizzard be Blizzard' following the acquisition of the veteran developer according to World of Warcraft's executive producer.

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Kaii9d ago

Diablo 4 storefront being a cash grabbing shitshow does unironically attest to that, kudos.

kythlyn7d ago

Microsoft needs to be guiding Blizzard to be what it USED to be, not allowing it to continue to be the greedy bastardization of itself that it has become.

XiNatsuDragnel9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.

Rynxie8d ago

They will never be old blizzard. Most of all the OG's left from developers to those on the top (even some decision making folks left).

Vits9d ago

Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while ago.

ApocalypseShadow9d ago

I was about to say this. How can they be blizzard when they're no longer blizzard from yesteryear?

blacktiger8d ago

Rare was the thing I lost heart

victorMaje8d ago

Exactly. Blizzard hasn’t been Blizzard for a long time.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Knightofelemia8d ago

Blizzard is not the same Blizzard like it use to be.

PassNextquestion8d ago

Were you expecting Microsoft to hire everyone that had left Blizzard long before they purchased the company...

Microsoft has let the Blizzard company they purchased continue to be the Blizzard company they purchased.

thesoftware7308d ago

Wow, PassNextquestion,

You fully understand what that saying means, unlike some people on here who just have to say negative garbage talk.

When someone says, "Just let *blank* be *blank*, "they are just letting them operate how they operate.

It's pretty much how Sony "let Bungie be Bungie."

This comment section is full of outright haters, but you have to "let N4G be N4G"

GamerRN8d ago

This site leans so heavily in one direction...

BISHOP-BRASIL7d ago

I don't think people commenting are necessarily blaming MS for anything here, this is just collective longing for what Blizzard/Vivendi was before Activision's meddling.

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World of Warcraft Opens Beta Sign-Ups for 'The War Within'

Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.

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