Lol oops,
I was busy at work here when i posted last and mistyped hellgate into the blizzard set of games.
Blizzard isn't worried about money....how many accounts do that have active now? In 2007 they hit near 9.3 million...which through simple math 9.3 mil x ($45 + $15n)= Approx $500million and 150 million each month. With (n) = to the number of months played.
If blizzard was worried about their games competing with each other they wouldn't have mentioned each of the games all at the same time. They are trying to take over 3 somewhat close but different areas of the market. Diablo II still has ALOT of people playing it and they want those people paying them money, they want to keep their WOW accounts active for that 15 dollars a month with the release of this Expansion, and StarCraft is trying to get back into the original styling of Starcraft to take people from Civilization and games of that sort. All three of these games are not necessarily going to be competing but sharing the total "end game" victory for Blizzard which is why I think they will be releasing these all at approxiamtely the same time (maybe a few month window between releases).
Furthermore, with all the new knowledge about the new "point system" with the same account between all three games I'm sure they will be trying to get those to work together very rapidly.
One way to look at these games (as I have just explained) are all together. Not one of the games will dominate the market for an extended period of time (like WoW has over it's existence) but together they will make Blizzard a virtual Monopoly over this overall genre of gaming. Which in the end is what they care about, all three WILL total as the largest total sales of one company within a year.
**** All of these are my predictions, not factual. Don't take them as that.
I think it would be hilarious if the game was actually near completion and they were just showing us all the information that had mocked up over a year ago, just to send us all for a loop and fuck with us. It would be an awesome marketting ploy, but I'm not sure Blizzard would be smart enough to use it. Plus they are really good and underestimating how many bugs they have in their betas. Although I do have to give it to them, for the most part (and in comparison to other gaming companies) they don't like to release buggy games (Hellgate excluded).
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rolled int.... think i'm going to make a WD tonight
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Sigh, got ancient SMK on my barb.....at 450 paragon. Weird that the RNG in this game is so off.
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I was busy at work here when i posted last and mistyped hellgate into the blizzard set of games.
Blizzard isn't worried about money....how many accounts do that have active now? In 2007 they hit near 9.3 million...which through simple math 9.3 mil x ($45 + $15n)= Approx $500million and 150 million each month. With (n) = to the number of months played.
If blizzard was worried about their games competing with each other they wouldn't have mentioned each of the games all at the same time. They are trying to take over 3 somewhat close but different areas of the market. Diablo II still has ALOT of people playing it and they want those people paying them money, they want to keep their WOW accounts active for that 15 dollars a month with the release of this Expansion, and StarCraft is trying to get back into the original styling of Starcraft to take people from Civilization and games of that sort. All three of these games are not necessarily going to be competing but sharing the total "end game" victory for Blizzard which is why I think they will be releasing these all at approxiamtely the same time (maybe a few month window between releases).
Furthermore, with all the new knowledge about the new "point system" with the same account between all three games I'm sure they will be trying to get those to work together very rapidly.
One way to look at these games (as I have just explained) are all together. Not one of the games will dominate the market for an extended period of time (like WoW has over it's existence) but together they will make Blizzard a virtual Monopoly over this overall genre of gaming. Which in the end is what they care about, all three WILL total as the largest total sales of one company within a year.
**** All of these are my predictions, not factual. Don't take them as that.
Talk amonst ya' selves.
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