LAG - "World of Warcraft, Blizzards undisputed king of the MMO world which was released back in 2004, has reigned supreme for 8 years. When they released their second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, back in 2008, their subscriber base crept slowly towards the twelve million mark. This expansion, however, was met with a great deal of anger by the long term players, both casual and hardcore alike, and saw the emergence of a new type of player, the so-called “entitled casual.”"
Microsoft has 'let Blizzard be Blizzard' following the acquisition of the veteran developer according to World of Warcraft's executive producer.
Diablo 4 storefront being a cash grabbing shitshow does unironically attest to that, kudos.
Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.
Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while 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.
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.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
I wouldn't say 10million subs is a bad thing, not in the slightest.
werent they loosing a lot of subs in the past two years? going from loosing subs to not loosing subs is a benefit for blizzard, not a loss. blizzard is on their way to growth again if this keeps up.
Anyone else tired of WoW doom articles?
Dumb article -
"Well, let’s say that all 1.2 million passes were bought by new and returning players, that means 1.2 million people would have had to have left the game for the numbers to remain the same."
The guy decides to assume that all 1.2 million annual passes were sold to either new or returning players when in fact the vast majority were sold to existing players.