World of Warcraft

Originally posted by Pappy13

Originally posted by Thillian

Originally posted by Pappy13

 

Originally posted by Thillian

Originally posted by drbaltazar

i hope other game maker start to catch up to wow quality lol that game is 3 years old lol

The quality you're talking about is mainly affected by the size of the budget. WoW had far biggest budget so far from all other games out there. (5 times more than Vanguard for example) and largest marketing adv campaign. Fortunately the quality you're talking about is not the one I seek.

I can't decide what I like best about your post, your picture, your quote or your actual post so lets take them in order.

 

1)  It's great. I love it.  Fits you perfectly. :)

2)  Was the double negative intended, because it's the funniest part of the quote?

3)  Quality is quality, no matter the price, or if you prefer "You get what you pay for".  That's particularly apropos to both WoW and Vanguard.

Please re-read my post, especially the last sentence.

That was the FUNNY part.  I'm not quite sure what your definition of quality is?  I thought we all had the same definition, but apparently you have a different one.

Aha, that explains why people actually play  games with "low quality" eh... ,or not.

And please, please I beg you. Don't copy paste me here the definition of quality from wikipedia.

Originally posted by Thillian

Aha, that explains why people actually play  games with "low quality" eh... ,or not.

Um, no that doesn't explain anything.  People play games of "low quality" for whatever reason they choose to play them.  Perhaps it's because it's also low price.  Perhaps although it's low quality, it's still fun in some regards.  Perhaps it's because they are masochistic.  It has nothing to do with their definition of quality.

Originally posted by Thillian

And please, please I beg you. Don't copy paste me here the definition of quality from wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_warcraft

Sorry, I couldn't help myself. :)

Once 6Million or more people stop playing I’ll start to worry about a different game.

I would like to note this is active accounts, so its $15 x10,000,000 a month.  WoW =gold.

http://www.mmogchart.com/charts/

Originally posted by mmcguire2

I would like to note this is active accounts, so its $15 x10,000,000 a month.

Just so you know, not everyone pays $15 a month.  It could actually be substantially less since over half of that 10 million number is from Asia where they don't pay Blizzard directly, Blizzard has a license agreement with The9 who handles subscpritions.  There's a lot of speculation as to how much Blizzard makes off those in Asia, but no one other than Blizzard and The9 really knows.

Originally posted by Pappy13

Originally posted by mmcguire2

I would like to note this is active accounts, so its $15 x10,000,000 a month.

Just so you know, not everyone pays $15 a month.  It could actually be substantially less since over half of that 10 million number is from Asia where they don't pay Blizzard directly, Blizzard has a license agreement with The9 who handles subscpritions.  There's a lot of speculation as to how much Blizzard makes off those in Asia, but no one other than Blizzard and The9 really knows.

Lol, stupid point but I’ll play with it. Let us say all of WoWs active accounts only pay 1 US dollar.  So if we take $1 a month paid by 10million accounts? Anyone have a calculator?  WoW isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

Originally posted by mmcguire2

Originally posted by Pappy13

Originally posted by mmcguire2

I would like to note this is active accounts, so its $15 x10,000,000 a month.

Just so you know, not everyone pays $15 a month.  It could actually be substantially less since over half of that 10 million number is from Asia where they don't pay Blizzard directly, Blizzard has a license agreement with The9 who handles subscpritions.  There's a lot of speculation as to how much Blizzard makes off those in Asia, but no one other than Blizzard and The9 really knows.

Lol, stupid point but I’ll play with it. Let us say all of WoWs active accounts only pay 1 US dollar.  So if we take $1 a month paid by 10million accounts? Anyone have a calculator?  WoW isn’t going anywhere any time soon.

If that were the case, they would probably be losing money. 

You have any idea of how many employee's Blizzard has now?  Several hundred at least.  Let's say they are all making about 60K a year or 5K a month.  That's 1 million a month just to pay their salaries and that doesn't include what they put in 401K, insurance or any other benefits.  Now add to that the cost of maintaining a place for those people to work, the electricity it costs to run their computers, their computer equipment itself, plus all the equipment they need to keep the servers running and on and on and on.

Yeah, 10 million a month sounds like a lot, till you start breaking it down.  Don't get me wrong, Blizzard is doing very well for itself, no question about it, but I don't think they are quite to the point of wiping their butts with 5 dollar bills just yet.  Bill Gates they are not.

Edit:  OMG. a little research puts the number of total employees around 2700.  Um that's like 13.5 million a month just on salary assuming an average of 60K.  Course we are only talking about WoW subscription money which is only a fraction of what Blizzard pulls in.

Okay, so we are on the same page then? Bizz is making A LOT of money off of WoW regardless of the monthly wage! So, until they make their next hit we shouldn’t worry about WoW going anywhere. Thanks for reinforcing my point.