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Take this into account;

World of Warcraft costs $15 a month to play. If you pre-pay for more than a few months, it ends up costing roughly $12 a month. We'll be conservative and round this down to $10 a month for ease of numbers.

World of Warcraft has roughly 10 Million monthly players - each paying $10 a month. This means that Blizzard entertainment is grossing a profit revenue of $100 Million dollars Per month of pure profit; Less costs for hosting, staffing, and patches, of course. I highly, highly doubt that their World of Warcraft team gets paid $100 Mil a month.

That said, this is also in addition to the hard copy of the games - Each retailing for $20 to $40; $60 at launch. Multiply those numbers by 10 Million, and Blizzard Entertainment grosses anywhere between $200 and $600 Million each expansion launch, not to mention paid character transfers, name changes, race/class changes, paraphernalia such as shirts, mugs, posters, etc... You see where I'm going with this.

Long story short, fuck yes, I'd pay for it.

Smörgåsbord wrote:Take this into account;

World of Warcraft costs $15 a month to play. If you pre-pay for more than a few months, it ends up costing roughly $12 a month. We'll be conservative and round this down to $10 a month for ease of numbers.

World of Warcraft has roughly 10 Million monthly players - each paying $10 a month. This means that Blizzard entertainment is grossing a profit revenue of $100 Million dollars Per month of pure profit; Less costs for hosting, staffing, and patches, of course. I highly, highly doubt that their World of Warcraft team gets paid $100 Mil a month.

This is pretty neat. Some of the facts were kind of shocking.

Also, if you take into account their budgeting costs per month, which run anywhere from $5 Million to a cap of $7.7 Million, they're making obscene amounts of cash for the product.

Also, according to that chart, my $100 Million figure was a gross underestimation, by a factor of eight, and that's *Still* underestimating revenues by a factor of 2 or 3. Grossing a Billion dollars per month in pure margin is kind of a big deal.

Inspired wrote:I need to make me an mmorpg.

Why do you think I've been working on one for the better part of a decade?