You're not think in a business sense. Blizzard is much larger than it was before Wow took off and it has grown accordingly. However unlike most business's all of this massive growth was due to one product that will need to be replaced at one point. Wow is now fading and with its fade it is not bringing in the same amount of money so Blizzard can has to replace the cash cow with something that brings in the same amount of money and more. http://beta.xfire.com/games/d3 Diablo 3's long term profitability is not looking good and it's making investors nervous because one the key selling points Activison sells the Blizzard brand on is its ability to make games that pay for their huge dev costs overtime. This is why D3 has the RMAH. If no one is playing Diablo 3 then the RMAH isn't going to bring in the money needed to pay off its huge dev costs and not to mention time costs. The counter point I always see is that Diablo 3 sold so much in the first week but really COD sells way more every year and takes a fraction of the money and time to make. The bottom line is people are quitting and not coming back to Diablo 3 and it isn't good considering wow is over its peak and Blizzard doesn't really have any huge projects close to completion.
to think from a business sense you would have to see the ledgers. how much they are spending, how much they are taking in.
unless you have that you can't claim a business sense, only some armchair guesses.
No, again for a normal business this would be true but Blizzard is a company that has 3 products. It has Starcraft 2, Diablo and Wow. Wow has passed its peak and their only new product is Diablo 3 so if Diablo 3 isn't doing well then it comes down to basic logic. I'm not saying they're losing money I'm saying that with this company you can make predictions for years down the road since they have at least 5 years between new products.
For those wondering why Vivendi would sell AB, it's not because AB isn't profitable or anything (far from indeed) but because Vivendi itself struggles and basically just wants to get a one-time big money surge by selling of AB. At least, that's what I've taken from it.
Either way it has me scared. I couldn't give less of a shit about the Activision part, but the Blizzard one? I don't know if there is any company with enough funds to buy AB that I'd have no issue with. I mean if someone like Microsoft acquires (Activision-)Blizzard then... fuck my life.
Blizzard is in trouble now since wow is slowly but more rapidly falling off and the game that was supposed to sustain them until their next big release has dropped to only about a 1000 players at peak.
Last time I heard, WoW is sitting on 8 million subs. And Diablo 3 selling over 3 million on the first day.
Yeah Blizzard is in no trouble at all financially. What makes people think that? 10million subscribers don't earn them enough money, maybe even make them operate at a loss (which they would've to do for some years in order to be in financial problems now).
Of course Blizzard is doing fine, so is, unfortunately, Activision with CoD and Skylanders. For Activision you may say the future doesn't look all that great in terms of IPs apart from the previous 2 titles. But Blizzard is solid in that regard.
You're not think in a business sense. Blizzard is much larger than it was before Wow took off and it has grown accordingly. However unlike most business's all of this massive growth was due to one product that will need to be replaced at one point. Wow is now fading and with its fade it is not bringing in the same amount of money so Blizzard can has to replace the cash cow with something that brings in the same amount of money and more. http://beta.xfire.com/games/d3 Diablo 3's long term profitability is not looking good and it's making investors nervous because one the key selling points Activison sells the Blizzard brand on is its ability to make games that pay for their huge dev costs overtime. This is why D3 has the RMAH. If no one is playing Diablo 3 then the RMAH isn't going to bring in the money needed to pay off its huge dev costs and not to mention time costs. The counter point I always see is that Diablo 3 sold so much in the first week but really COD sells way more every year and takes a fraction of the money and time to make. The bottom line is people are quitting and not coming back to Diablo 3 and it isn't good considering wow is over its peak and Blizzard doesn't really have any huge projects close to completion.
For those wondering why Vivendi would sell AB, it's not because AB isn't profitable or anything (far from indeed) but because Vivendi itself struggles and basically just wants to get a one-time big money surge by selling of AB. At least, that's what I've taken from it.
Either way it has me scared. I couldn't give less of a shit about the Activision part, but the Blizzard one? I don't know if there is any company with enough funds to buy AB that I'd have no issue with. I mean if someone like Microsoft acquires (Activision-)Blizzard then... fuck my life.
Blizzard is in trouble now since wow is slowly but more rapidly falling off and the game that was supposed to sustain them until their next big release has dropped to only about a 1000 players at peak.
Honestly this doesn't sound nearly as bad as anyone is trying to make it. This generation is getting a little out of hand with impatience. So you have to wait for 72 hours? So the fuck what.
There is obviously a reason Blizzard is doing something like this, regardless of whether or not you agree. Also, all this was is a pity party for the OP to exclaim why he's cool enough to not jump on the Diablo III "Bandwagon."
@AndrewB: If you think this is the first "chink," in their armour, you obviously have not either played or followed WoW or SC2. People complain about WoW on a daily basis that changes ruin the game. Starcraft 2 straight out the gate was hailed as "not as competitive" as the original Brood War. People will bitch and moan as much as they want, but in the end the only reason they are doing it is because it inconveniences them in a minor way, but they exaggerate it to the umpteenth degree.
You've got to be kidding me dude. This would be fine for a free trial or something but if someone pays full price for something they should be able to play the full product. This is the first time I've ever heard of anything like this and it's crazy. "Oh, you bought our game? Well you can only play it for 2-3 hours with limited features for the first three days!"
@blueduck: So far, all of the people he's killed were murderers, with the sole exception of Gale. Even his death can be justified (somewhat) by the urgency of the situation Walter and Jesse were in. At no point in the entire show, is there anything suggesting that Walter White has sunk low enough to take the life of an innocent child. I am very surprised to see that I'm alone in thinking this.
Gale was killed because if he stayed alive Walter would have been killed. This is the same situation that has Walter poison the child. He has to do it or he's going to die.
Except Gale was a grown adult, which changes everything.
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@AuthenticM said:
@blueduck: So far, all of the people he's killed were murderers, with the sole exception of Gale. Even his death can be justified (somewhat) by the urgency of the situation Walter and Jesse were in. At no point in the entire show, is there anything suggesting that Walter White has sunk low enough to take the life of an innocent child. I am very surprised to see that I'm alone in thinking this.
He didn't kill the kid. He just poisoned him, he knew the plant or whatever it was wasn't gonna kill him just make him sick enough to allow him to manipulate Jesse. There was a bit of a risk with the kid's life but he had no intentions of the kid dying.
How do we know if Walter knew for certain that the kid would not die? I don't remember, but is there anyone at some point who says that there was zero chance for the kid to die? Because if not, we have to assume that Walter was ready to take the risk in killing a child to save himself and his family.
The whole point of him being a child is that Walter knew how Jesse would react. I don't know how you view Walter White but he is more evil, ruthless and cunning than he was in the start, that's the point of the show. He is going to do whatever it takes to win....or save himself and his family. If you think this is the worst thing Walter can do I suggest you stop watching the show now because he's going to be top dog in season 5 and that can only mean more killing.
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