subject: Add Up In World Of Warcraft And Buy Wow Gold In Cataclysm [print this page] Now it doesn't explain exactly what is or what is not a WOW related revenue but for arguments sake assume all changes for subscriptions, transfers, selling of pets, class changes and so forth. Let's ignore sale of the actual game. Some pay hourly also in other countries. I don't doubt they have the number they claim. I do doubt their claim actually means anything to anyone because they have no real definition on what a 'subscriber' is beside someone who pays them more then .01 in a given period of time.
So 389 million for 3 months divided by $15 per month means 8.6 million subscribers and NOT the 10-12 that Blizzard claims. And this might be even lower as I also ignored all transfer costs, pets etc and took the entire 389 million as monthly fees. Your assumption is that everyone is on a monthly sub and you don't take into account operating costs for their data centers and life cycle replacement of hardware. Now don't hesitate to buy wow gold from mmocarts.com now, mmocarts is your reliable wow gold supplier. Contrary to what many want to believe, WoW still costs a ton to run, and I doubt they are on virtual machines meaning greater costs on hardware. Not to mention transport fees associated with their data centers around the world.
Maybe wow isn't doing as well as they would have us believe. The 389 million is a real figure as it's in their 10-Q financial report. So does that mean the way they report subscribers is misleading? Something doesn't add up. Bottom line is if people are leaving in droves (not sure yet) and the stock hits a 52 week high, it might be a great time to short the stock and make a 30% return in just a couple of months. Or I guess I can trade like most people and throw a dart at a dartboard and go that way. Which BTW did happen to beat many of the so called experts when someone did that not too long ago.
