Even if they’ve spent 1 billion dollars in the 7ish years it’s been made… That’s currently about 9 months of subscription fees purely, not including ALL the other sales going on (WC3, WoW, TBC, Action Figures, Shirts, etc etc etc.) even though those sales may be minor, they’re certainly around the 1 billion dollar mark together. If not more.

Even if they’ve spent 1 billion dollars in the 7ish years it’s been made… That’s currently about 9 months of subscription fees purely, not including ALL the other sales going on (WC3, WoW, TBC, Action Figures, Shirts, etc etc etc.) even though those sales may be minor, they’re certainly around the 1 billion dollar mark together. If not more.

Even if they’ve spent 1 billion dollars in the 7ish years it’s been made… That’s currently about 9 months of subscription fees purely, not including ALL the other sales going on (WC3, WoW, TBC, Action Figures, Shirts, etc etc etc.) even though those sales may be minor, they’re certainly around the 1 billion dollar mark together. If not more.

100 developers costs roughly $10 million a year, say blizzard have a staff of 250 working on warcraft thats $25m, 7 years continuing development thats $175m.

So blizzards estimates about right I would say.

What I didnt say in my last post was that I reckoned they had spent about 50% on upkeep and 50% on development.

This $200 million figure by the way is only since launch, only for billing, customer support and maintenance. It doesnt include any development. the "running costs" so to say.

100 developers costs roughly $10 million a year, say blizzard have a staff of 250 working on warcraft thats $25m, 7 years continuing development thats $175m.

So blizzards estimates about right I would say.

What I didnt say in my last post was that I reckoned they had spent about 50% on upkeep and 50% on development.

This $200 million figure by the way is only since launch, only for billing, customer support and maintenance. It doesnt include any development. the "running costs" so to say.

100 developers costs roughly $10 million a year, say blizzard have a staff of 250 working on warcraft thats $25m, 7 years continuing development thats $175m.

So blizzards estimates about right I would say.

What I didnt say in my last post was that I reckoned they had spent about 50% on upkeep and 50% on development.

This $200 million figure by the way is only since launch, only for billing, customer support and maintenance. It doesnt include any development. the "running costs" so to say.

i wouldnt be surprised if they are using some of that to be able to produce three games at once instead of their usual one… and of course theres all those contests they host… and im sure a lot of it goes to blizzcon and wwi costs… but even with all of that theres some nice profit going on… keep in mind that vivendi is taking it not necessarily blizz itself…

i wouldnt be surprised if they are using some of that to be able to produce three games at once instead of their usual one… and of course theres all those contests they host… and im sure a lot of it goes to blizzcon and wwi costs… but even with all of that theres some nice profit going on… keep in mind that vivendi is taking it not necessarily blizz itself…

i wouldnt be surprised if they are using some of that to be able to produce three games at once instead of their usual one… and of course theres all those contests they host… and im sure a lot of it goes to blizzcon and wwi costs… but even with all of that theres some nice profit going on… keep in mind that vivendi is taking it not necessarily blizz itself…