Still be sold on blizzard: world of warcraft fall down the overall situation

Once occupied half of the global game jiangshan rift gold dynamic depending on the blizzard recently in crisis. For months, the vivendi intend to sell a 61% stake in dynamic depending on the blizzard rumors intensified. Tencent, Microsoft, time warner, KKR, Providence, black stone...... The buyers to make moves list is growing.

Beginning in 2007, vivendi has merger dynamic view and blizzard two companies, become after merger dynamic depending on the blizzard's parent company, holding 61% of its shares. But since this year, vivendi shares and hit a nine-year low, leading to investor discontent, vivendi CEO let? Bernard? Levy was ready to leave. Then there is rumor says, as a most illiquid assets, move depending on the blizzard will be sold vivendi, which have been tempted of potential buyers offer intention.

Tencent recently won just because the mission summon OL "domestic agency but is regarded as one of the powerful bidders, then Microsoft, time warner, and blizzard rival KKR, Providenc, black stone, the company have been added to the list. But the real strength and is now broadly promising acquirers did not appear at present, because after all bidders consideration, move on the game development cycle and blizzard huge spending whether can in the short term and its business travel.

This let move on the show embarrassed situation a blizzard, the secret world gold former empire builder game, has also inevitable on down.

"Warcraft" flagging difficult to their "the panda people mystery of life-saving straw into

What are they? This problem to the players lost, eighty percent the muzzle all points to the world of warcraft (hereinafter referred to as the "warcraft"). This money has given blizzard and dynamic depending on the blizzard of the wealth of the brilliant with endless game, in recent years has been difficult to their fortunes around.

Until July 2010 starcraft II listed ago, "warcraft" also in depending on the blizzard contribution for move most of revenue in 2009 will bring only $1. 2 billion in sales. But the situation in 2011 years starting to change. Single to the fourth quarter of 2011, the warcraft "lost 100000 players, the total number of players fell to 10. 2 million, plus a few quarters before the attenuation, and last year the game a total loss of 1. 8 million players.

The Chinese market is no exception. In February, DingLei earnings for the first time in the warcraft "admitted in China sales declined. "Warcraft" server also into spirits ", since in May this year, buy diablo 3 gold netease has successively announced the clothes two server consolidation plan, total close 12 set of server. Or even individual before server consolidation online players only for the single digits, a lot of the old players of the former state also have become the AFK.

In order to save the situation, netease is actively preparing for the people of world of warcraft: the panda mystery of domestic listed matters, this newest expansion already in early June start closed and sent to the version of office to the examination and approval, that is expected to happen at the end of the third quarter officially online operations. "The panda people mystery of by netease will no doubt be great expectations, even is netease operation is warcraft" "help straw", because for a lot of the faithful have AFK players, new content is likely to attract them to return.
"Brothers strive for" diablo iii shunt warcraft player

Straw, not to, born and escape the diablo 3 "show up and has intensified the warcraft" of government. The two types of similar, but to diablo iii social elements of more features to join, many players began to give up the warcraft "to diablo iii. In may this year from Xfire data showed that, in the diablo 3 "after its release, the warcraft" appeared the number of players of the most serious landslide. In Xfire, at the time of warcraft "number of players is only the diablo 3" before launch of a quarter, ranked fifth.

Facing this problem, blizzard is used "from hand to hand theory" be contentious. The company vice President Frank Pierce (Frank Pearce, said the "for blizzard for, it is very important that, we have to realize that as early as possible in the future a certain time, a game time will take a lot of warcraft player, it is destined to be the facts. So, would rather is our own game take a lot of warcraft player, and cannot be other online. Even if most of the players into the region is diablo iii, but they are still blizzard players. "

Have, according to the people familiar with the warcraft "online people in diablo iii selling to the landslide, blizzard may not continue to put into development. Together with a few years ago to spread the blizzard in the development of buy diablo 3 gold new massively multiplayer online game "titans" of wars, now may have entered the closed beta. "In the long run, the decline of warcraft" is blizzard expected to things. And has made a debate "diablo 3" on the player's tap by that time may no longer meaningful. "

Interestingly, when the warcraft "is also has a lot of players from the diablo 2". "I'm from the diablo 2" tap to warcraft ", now also the still....... " A player says.