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MMO's for a noob

The Saltman

By The Saltman,
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blackcatgrowl Newbie

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I'm sure Blizzard doesn't give a damn why people log on as long as they get their $15 each month from all 12 million of them.

thats a gross $2,160,000,000 per year. yeah thats billions! LOL

You got that right.

What I find interesting is the fact that their subscription rate hasn't really grown much in the past few years.

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Darth Urious Newbie

Darth Urious

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The worst part of my LOTRO deal was I had jumped on the the bonus points offer sometime around Xmas and got 6000 for $50... I now have over 9000 Turbine Points on my account that I haven't logged into in months...

I guess the upside is that once my subscription expires in April (which I learned remains active until then and I wouldn't get a partial refund for when I canceled it a month ago) is that that should be enough points to purchase the expansions and other things worth having without having to pay any more real money...

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Raskle Contributor

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What's funny to me is the social stigma playing games has to people outside online gaming. Yet, for some reason, the video game market as a whole has almost triple the revenues/profits of both movies and music (MPAA and RIAA) combined, including legally downloaded DVDs/Blueray and CD sales.

If this is such a "nerds-only" thing to do, then why is there so much money made from it? Technically, XBox and PS 3 are huge MMOs... just with more strictures on their grouping.

By the way Saltman, if you have RL friends who play the same MMO game, and they have more time to devote to it, you could ask them to start two characters - one for leveling solo and one for grouping up with you. That way, you never have to worry about level gaps, and you can all have fun at your own pace.

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mmmbeans Newbie

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I'd put that more on market saturation than any indictment on declining product quality. They've hit equilibrium with new players coming and old timers leaving.

Its going to take an evolution in gaming to knock Blizzard out of the top spot. Something that not only breaks the mold of MMOs but totally redefines what the genre is.

yea really. It's a freaking 8 year old game. They still have millions of players. I can't think of any other game that has ever achieved close to that.

MAYBE Quake II. but th id didn't have subscription services or retail add-ons..

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