Blizzard parent Vivendi is planning to ship Wrath of the Lich King in "second half" of the current year; Blizzard revs near $100 million per month.
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"There seems to be no end to the creativity of the developers behind World of Warcraft. This expansion adds so much new content, it will make your head spin!"
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There's fighting talk today from THQ executive Jack Sorenson, who has told Eurogamer that he reckons Blizzard's all-conquering World of Warcraft has "peaked".
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J. Allen Brack: That's actually something we talk about every expansion. It's interesting, two games have really tried that before, Ultima Online tried it and EverQuest tried it as well, and in each case it was only somewhat successful.
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The 1st Official trailer is now available. (couldn't fit full source name, WorldofWarcraft.com, due to 15 character limit)
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"The9 Limited announced today that World of Warcraft recently had a peak concurrency of one million players. The Chinese operator has been handling the Blizzard game in the China region since June 2005. This concurrency number is the highest since the game's original launch."
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The Chinese version of World of Warcraft is still offline, according to this Yahoo! report, having been taken off the air on June 7 when Blizzard’s contract with The9 expired. As the piece notes, new operator NetEase wasn’t ready to have the game up and running at the time, and clearly still isn’t. No one appears to have a set date for play to recommence.
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Its nearly 12 million subscribers help Blizzard--one half of Activision Blizzzard--generate over $100 million in revenues each month. Were any console-maker to successfully woo the notoriously PC-focused developer-publisher, the resulting royalties and sales would give it a major leg up in the tooth-and-nail console wars.
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Today, the Irvine-based developer said that its worldwide subscriber base had exceeded 11 million. Adding a little color to that number, WOW's citizenship would rank just higher than the total population of Greece, according to the Central Intelligence Agency's World Fact Book.
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The Chinese government dept which deals with the import of foreign videogames into the country, the GAPP, has announced that it plans to tighten restrictions. It will crack down on approval criteria in an apparent bid to avoid the excessive penetration of foreign culture among Chinese youth," Those words from Digital Publishing Bureau director Kou Xiaowei also included a reference to World of Warcraft, which is still awaiting approval for the Lich King expansion's release in the region.
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