>Activision Blizzard has reported new financial numbers for the July-September period, and it was a gigantic quarter for the gaming publisher. One section of the company's business that did particularly well was microtransactions. For the three-month period, Activision Blizzard made $1.2 billion from microtransactions, which are called "in-game net bookings." This is a dramatic 69 percent improvement over the same period last year, when Activision Blizzard made $709 million from in-game net bookings.
>Microtransactions are very big business for Activision Blizzard. For the latest reporting period, Activision Blizzard made $1.95 billion in revenue from all of its business combined, so the $1.2 billion figure from microtransactions represents more than half of the company's total revenue.
Its good to be a Blizz-BVLL. What Blizzard games are you currently playing, Zig Forums?
I love how gaming is able to use this model to always keep delivering content.
For me, I played a lot of Broodwar this weekend, was quite sick.
Jeremiah Butler
WYKNXQ, NA, SKELD
Levi Kelly
shut the fuck up and post more porn
Adam Ramirez
>Blizzard
>article and report demonstrate the games contributing to this revenue surge are Call of Duty(Modern Warfare/Warzone and COD Mobile thanks to Chinese whales) and Candy Crush, who have enormously higher MAUs than any Blizzard game
Imagine needing to ride fucking Call of Duty's coattails.
>What Blizzard games are you currently playing, Zig Forums? the one game in which I don't have to spend anything to play except my sanity also the last bastion of soul left in blizzard
based 8% of paypigs putting money into our bro kotticks pocket
David Morgan
>Ramp up microtransactions in WoW by creating a culture of pay 2 win retards who purchase WoW gold directly from blizzard and use that gold to buy carries through current content for mounts and titles, massively devaluing ingame achievements >Introduce the practice of taking armor sets that are well-detailed and intended to be rewards for singleplayer content, ripping them from the game's content that people pay a monthly fee for the creation of and charging players for it >WoW devteam has had its numbers and paychecks cut over the last 5 years, increasing amounts of work is now outsourced to Chang's minimum wage sweatshops and Durgasoft's java pajeets, all at the expense of the game's quality control >start to axe first-world outsource and support teams in EU, destroy blizzard's french HQ because they wanted paychecks worthy of their qualifications and proper holiday leave
>Fucktards will claim this is a good thing
Jim sterling is a gay baby retard but he wasn't wrong about Activision and Bobby Kotick
Blizzard game development is going to be nothing but feminists and kikes writing netflix-tier storylines and shipping every piece of work to third worlders, slapping a blizzard logo on top of the end product.
There's a very good reason why almost everyone who contributed to the original quality of blizzard's games pre-Activison takeover has left the company to make their own studios.
Who cares? It's cod babbies and candycrush moms. What should concern you is WoW still making like a billion in a year and shadowlands breaking pre-order records. Fucking sad.
This. There's still retards in CoD/WoW, but Candy casuals are the real cancer.
Jack Johnson
just write it off as chink shit and move on
Kevin Edwards
I mean, this is the end goal, right? You work in a shitty position in whatever industry you have a passion for, making your way up the ranks until you have a measure of control, then you use that control to make lots of money for the company, then you network, get shifted up more until you're in the execs, then make decisions to make even more money, and use the money you make to make even more money, and so on. I don't get what the problem is.
Christian Watson
It's not simply chink shit. It's a part of a larger trend that the company is moving towards, one where microtransaction potential is massively emphasized over game quality while cutting every corner on staff costs. Activision has become the american version of Nexon.
capitalism and communism are two halves of the same beast
Nathan Jones
Commies are the most successful capitalists? Lmao. So commies are smarter than capitalists
Anthony Ortiz
>Its good to be a Blizz-BVLL are you a blizzard employee? why does this matter to you so much sperg?
Jeremiah Perry
The overwatch coomposter is an impromptu blizzard employee that gets paid to promote blizzard products on reddit and Zig Forums. This one specific person has been doing it since the overwatch release, IIRC. His style is generally to create a very clickbait-y post with coomer bait and leave the thread because his job is already done and he likely gets paid for just the thread creation or number of replies.
