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Activision Blizzard released "Legion" this year for World of Warcraft. As seen on the past view add-ons after the release we got a dropdown because the expectations were better than we got. At the end
the subscriptions get lower and lower.
Right now Blizzard delivered what they said, and sure not all is working well, like the PVP system a lot of people complaining about but we still will keep a good amount of subscriptions and get new subscribers or subscribers which are coming
back with Patch 7.2.
For Diabolo I think we can expect a paid addon/extension in the next view years. People still excite each season, so I highly expect here an increase of sales when that is coming out. The same expectation I have for Overwatch. This game got us a huge amount of sales in 2017, and if they place some new things in a paid store or so, we can expect a new high again.
What makes me a bit angry about that is that Blizzard is not lowering price for Character Boosts on World of Warcraft. People need to pay 50€ to get 100. A lot of people complaining about that. I think it would be better to give boost for free but then sell
XP boosts over the shop for like ten bucks for 24 hours or so. But they also could lower the price of the boost to 15-25 € and so people would pay more often that boost because they then can play a lot more classes.
We also can expect the second movie of Warcraft which should get Wow Players into the cinemas
So my opinion is we will see now January 2017 maybe still a bit of drawdown to 33.00 but then when 7.2 is released and the first news released about the Abonnements etc. we will get a new high. I expect to hit over 60.00 by the end of the year.
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In the past view weeks a lot of changes happened in the Blizzard Entertainment games, and with that decision, i think they will lose a tonne of sales and am closing out.
Example: They increased service fees for World of Warcraft EU services which people are asking for years to lower them. Thousands of posts been made on the forums like Reddit and wow and I think this will make them more loss than profit.
Example: They increased service fees for World of Warcraft EU services which people are asking for years to lower them. Thousands of posts been made on the forums like Reddit and wow and I think this will make them more loss than profit.
We know so far that a lot of people came back to the new 7.1.5 Patch to WoW. Also, some new items have been released or coming up in Overwatch.
Am already interested when we get some new ideas what will happen in the new WoW-Expansion. Sure Legion is now over 6 month's on the market, but I hope we will get soon some details.
A lot of people talking about an Old Gods Addon and a revamp of the entire old World. That could be really nice and get a lot of players back.
Diabolo I think the will publish a paid Addon / Expansion in next view years, and that will for sure increase the revenue.
What also would be nice or what BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT should think about to unpublish boosts to LvL 100 or later on 110. But they should add some EXP Potions you can buy for 2-3€ on the Web-Shop to boost their gained EXP for next 2 hours or so.
That would get them a ton of micropayments because of people more likely to buy 2-3 potions for 9€ instead of the 50€ the 100 boost. And people would buy way more often this Potions and will go over 50€ with their payments after a specific time.
Because people love to pay 10 times 9€ but hate to invest 1 time 50€.
But we will see what is coming up next.