Vivendi Games' revenues totaled €1.02 billion ($1.5 billion USD) in 2007, with much of the cash flow thanks to World of Warcraft's 10 million players and the €814 million ($1.2 billion) Blizzard brought in, an increase of 58% from 2006. WoW's next expansion Wrath of the Lich King is expected later this year and should keep this little phenomenon on track.
Proving how much of a work horse Blizzard is in Vivendi Games, the Sierra Entertainment, Sierra Online and Vivendi Games Mobile businesses saw combined revenues of €204 million ($301 million), a 29% decline from last year. Timeshift and World in Conflict drove sales but didn't perform as well as 2006's Scarface, Ice Age 2, Eragon, Spyro: A New Beginning and F.E.A.R. Now forget all you know of Vivendi Games -- here begins the age of Activision-Blizzard.
Reader Comments (26)
Posted: Jan 30th 2008 9:05PM (Unverified) said
I am not to greedy... I don't want to be a billionaire, just a millionaire =)
In fact... anyone knows a way to earn a lot of cash on the Internet, like the guy that was selling pixels?
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In fact... anyone knows a way to earn a lot of cash on the Internet, like the guy that was selling pixels?
Posted: Jan 31st 2008 4:46AM ThornedVenom said
Word of advice from a fellow Joystiqer: don't tempt the spambots.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 9:06PM (Unverified) said
BUT ... can we severely maim and destroy that relentless tide of WoW players with any items found in and around a shopping mall?
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 9:30PM (Unverified) said
Phff.
1-Get the car in the parking lot.
2-Kill 53,594 Wow players.
3-Get to the security office and pick the megabuster.
4-Enjoy your new Megabuster.
5- Kill more Wow players.
6-????
7-Profit.
You can also replace steps 1 and 2 for surviving in a comic-con for 7 days, you’ll get a Laser sable and some nice underpants.
(Dead Rising is my favorite game of all time, If it wasn’t because I have to work, study and other activities in between I would go for the 7 day survivor achievement, seriously Capcom next time add some checkpoints or a fucking save system to the infinity mode, for example you can save and continue later but if you die you have to start again)
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1-Get the car in the parking lot.
2-Kill 53,594 Wow players.
3-Get to the security office and pick the megabuster.
4-Enjoy your new Megabuster.
5- Kill more Wow players.
6-????
7-Profit.
You can also replace steps 1 and 2 for surviving in a comic-con for 7 days, you’ll get a Laser sable and some nice underpants.
(Dead Rising is my favorite game of all time, If it wasn’t because I have to work, study and other activities in between I would go for the 7 day survivor achievement, seriously Capcom next time add some checkpoints or a fucking save system to the infinity mode, for example you can save and continue later but if you die you have to start again)
Posted: Jan 30th 2008 10:36PM (Unverified) said
i mean no ill-regard to WoW players. just commenting on the allusion of WoW players to zombies from DR.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 9:11PM (Unverified) said
some dude on ebay sells the Xbox Dashboard update on a CD-R for $7.99 each. he advertises updated backwards compatibility. he's not selling the software, just the service of putting the free software on a disk. you could probably make $1000 a year doing something like that. take that $1000 and put it in a medium risk mutual fund and in 30 years you will be a millionaire.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 9:31PM thethirdmoose said
Yea... as much as I wish I could sextuple my income every year, it ain't happening (ln 1000)
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 9:38PM (Unverified) said
I live near Retro Studios... if I make a well elaborated game design, idea, characters... can a studio buy the idea or at least can I give mi idea for free to them so they can make the game, with no payment for me?
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 9:38PM (Unverified) said
Deadpool, huh? F'in sweet. The Merc with a mouth.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 9:34PM (Unverified) said
That picture is just so awesome.I love Dead Rising,I wish I could get the Survivor achievement.
I used to play that game for months,I can't wait for the sequel.
Oh yeah Alexander Sliwinski +9000 points for the Dead Rising reference.
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I used to play that game for months,I can't wait for the sequel.
Oh yeah Alexander Sliwinski +9000 points for the Dead Rising reference.
Posted: Jan 30th 2008 9:46PM (Unverified) said
just pause the game and come back. its risky, but try it while you are still in warranty.
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Posted: Jan 30th 2008 9:54PM (Unverified) said
I was going to do that but the XB360 gets awfully hot and back in the day it got the RROD's and almost killed my copy of Dead Rising(With that I mean that the XB360 scratch it so bad it almost ruins it,God bless Skip DR),damn it I should tried that back in December but I was playing The orange box at the time.
Also I can only play 2 hours per day and only like at 10:00 PM so that means leaving the XB360 on during the whole day while I'm at the office and that doesn't sounds like a good idea.
Now,I think I still have warranty..crap.
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Also I can only play 2 hours per day and only like at 10:00 PM so that means leaving the XB360 on during the whole day while I'm at the office and that doesn't sounds like a good idea.
Now,I think I still have warranty..crap.
Posted: Jan 30th 2008 10:16PM Zamzoph said
Obligatory link to
http://zombiesloveburningcrusade.ytmnd.com/
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http://zombiesloveburningcrusade.ytmnd.com/
Posted: Jan 31st 2008 11:16AM (Unverified) said
Hahahahahaha LOL.
You Win,take these internets with you.
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You Win,take these internets with you.
Posted: Jan 30th 2008 11:18PM (Unverified) said
And at the same time implying that all the suscribers are zombies......
......though that really isn't that far fetched.
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......though that really isn't that far fetched.
Posted: Jan 31st 2008 12:20AM RPGJock said
I have been off WoW for 8 months now. Some days are better than others. A guy I work with who I use to play with sent me a resurrection email the other day. I yelled at him for it. I can't go back, I just can't. It will consume me and nothing will be left...
I am just saying...
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I am just saying...
Posted: Jan 31st 2008 4:53AM ThornedVenom said
I dare anyone to tell me, with a straight face, that all of that cash is JUST to maintain servers.
And I don't know any upgrading game development which would cost that much neither.
I'm not saying that it's wrong that they're earning so much cash (good for them) but I'm saying that it's hard for people to justify $15 a month as a necessity.
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And I don't know any upgrading game development which would cost that much neither.
I'm not saying that it's wrong that they're earning so much cash (good for them) but I'm saying that it's hard for people to justify $15 a month as a necessity.
Posted: Jan 31st 2008 9:58AM (Unverified) said
€814 Mio / €144 Wow p. Ano = 5,6 Mio User and not 10 Mio user
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Posted: Jan 31st 2008 12:24PM (Unverified) said
How did Activision get enough funds to buy Vivendi?
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Posted: Feb 2nd 2008 8:06PM (Unverified) said
Uh, Todd, Vivendi is buying/taking controlling interest in Activision with the exchange of cash and assets, not the other way around. When the deal is done they will own 52%+ of the new company.
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