At BlizzCon 2011, Blizzard co-founder and president Mike Morhaime has made gamers an offer: commit to a full year of World of Warcraft, get Diablo III free.
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Blizzard has announced the fourth major expansion for World of Warcraft at BlizzCon 2011 called Mists of Pandaria.
New information has started to stream out regarding the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion, which will introduce the Pandaren race and the Monk class, along with the titular Pandaria region.
Blizzard are keen to assure World of Warcraft fans that the Mists of Pandaria expansion isn't something "really silly, it's just a little lighter." Had plans for years. The Pandaren race are "really chill" about the "serious as a heart attack" history of Azeroth. Mists of Pandaria provides the "next vital chapter" in Warcraft lore.
COO Paul Sams of Blizzard says they've got a group within the studio "focusing on mobile and tablet apps," but so far they've "been around our games." The WoW auction house app has been highly successful. It depends "what the game is" as that decides platforms. They "don't have any opposition" to free-to-play.
Blizzard's Mike Morhaime strongly believes World of Warcraft's subscription offers the best value for money, adding you can't get that "entertainment value anywhere." Their MMO is "just unmatched" even when put it against "EA with the Star Wars game," he said. It "isn't true" the less you charge the more you make from MMOs.
According to a source, Blizzard's John Staats, once described as the "hero of the WoW dev team" by Jeff Kaplan, has been let go from the studio having been there for over 10 years. Staats created many of World of Warcraft's best content pieces, including all raid instances. He was attached as the Titan project senior level designer. Trouble in paradise?
The subscriber numbers for World of Warcraft have plummeted in the past few months, suffering a drop of 10%. The subscribership is now 10.3M active users, as opposed to 11.4M this past May.
Following the now confirmed departure of John Staats, Titan project's senior level designer, rumours of 'mass layoffs' at the developer soon started whipping around the Internet. Blizzard "out of respect" to staff don't discuss why individuals leave, but the "speculation circulating" of massive layoffs is "just a rumor," affirms the studio. No meltdown at Blizzard.
Publisher Activision Blizzard saw a 6.5 percent fall in their stock, valuing it at $13.02, after it was revealed that World of Warcraft lost almost 1 million subscribers in just 3 months. However thanks to "stronger than expected" consumer demand for other titles, like Skylanders and Modern Warfare 3, Activision are "raising our full-year financial outlook".
Punch and kick man Chuck Norris 'allows us to live' and enjoy World of Warcraft, the new US TV spot tell us. He's a hunter but doesn't hunt as that 'implies the possibility of failure'. These are facts - live with it. The clip is just 31 seconds long and proves without a doubt that Chuck Norris deserves his own expansion pack. Maybe he'll show up in Pandaria?
An alleged 18-page report from Blizzard, compiled for law enforcement personnel, has leaked online that reveals what details they would and could disclose about World of Warcraft users. As of 2009 they keep record of all IP addresses used, it claims. The document was dumped online by an activist/hacking group. Blizzard know "some users may abuse" its MMO.
Star Wars: The Old Republic has done more than just excite Star Wars fans. A new survey has indicated that anywhere from 900,000 to 1.6M players will migrate from World of Warcraft to The Old Republic, and as a result, Lazard Capital Markets has downgraded publisher Activision Blizzard stock from "buy" to "neutral".
With the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion to World of Warcraft the talent system is getting an overhaul, and that means new builds to start obsessing over endlessly. At BlizzCon in August the studio explained the new system for talents and has now released a calculator so the WoW masses can start figuring it out for themselves.
In Funcom's The Secret World MMO there are no player levels, or even character classes. It's all about progression; a "sense of development" without numbers 'above our heads.' The studio choose to combine player skill and gaining more abilities to 'level-up' instead of hand-holding with floating numbers on monsters. It's a "natural feeling of becoming stronger."
The Cataclysm expansion has finally achieved its conclusion as Blizzard release the Hour of Twilight update for World of Warcraft, bringing the MMO to version 4.3.0. Fans can finally do battle with Deathwing, as they travel back in time to the War of the Ancients. We work with orc leader Thrall and the other Dragon Aspects to finish Deathwing.
Industry analyst Colin Sebastian of Baird Equity Research states that the MMO market is healthy, pointing to the fact that Star Wars: The Old Republic was able to achieve a concurrent user count of 350,000 at its peak. This proves, according to Sebastian, that World of Warcraft is not obstructive towards another major AAA subscriber-based MMO with over 1M+ monthly paying players.
Developer Blizzard is looking for a franchise development producer for their Titan MMO project, which could be set in modern times or the near future if "product placement" is happening. This so far is the biggest indication that Titan isn't a fantasy adventure, and that it's set in a modern day world of sorts. The product placements must 'enhance the gameplay'.
Activision-Blizzard has released a financial report for both the calendar year 2011 as well as its fiscal fourth quarter. For the quarter ending on the 31st December, revenues were $1.41 billion, slightly down from the $1.43 billion made in the same period last year, while Activision-Blizzard made $4.76 billion in revenue for calendar 2011, compared with $4.45 billion in 2010.
Hasbro's has announced a partnership with Blizzard to bring two new licensed board games based on the publisher's popular videogames: World of Warcraft Monopoly and Risk: Starcraft.