Vivendi raking in the gold with WoW
by Spencer Callaghan 
Aug 3rd 2006 at 10:00AM
Looks like all those monthly fees are really starting to add up for Vivendi as they announced their second quarter revenues last week, and it appears they have grinded their fair share of gold in the land of Azeroth.
Vivendi Universal Games, the division of the French company that owns Blizzard Entertainment, lead the charge posting a $203 million U.S. or 29.6% increase over the same quarter last year. That's almost enough for an epic mount!
The company said that its runaway hit World of Warcraft accounted for the majority of the gain and they expect the good times to keep rolling once The Burning Crusade makes its way onto store shelves sometime this fall.
Personally, I think I'm going to go out and buy some shares that way I can convince my girlfriend I am actually making money by playing.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Addre Aug 3rd 2006 10:13AM
We'll have just to wait till release. Then we will see
Ghostle Aug 3rd 2006 10:34AM
Maybe they should spend some of that money and upgrade the oldest servers they have so the people stay happy and keep paying for their game.
Almost all the old servers are laggy (mostly cause of the huge population) and we were told they would get fixed and upgraded to the newer hardware, but no such luck.
Tug Aug 3rd 2006 4:05PM
I actually did go out and buy the shares (ADR's). Then they went and discontinued them and only offer the French shares now, a more expensive way to participate in the ownership of the company, at least for Americans. I ended up selling mine so I wouldn't have to pay the conversion fees :(
jack Aug 20th 2006 10:05PM
I really think maybe Blizzard is crazy. In the recent 3 months,Most of chinese wow gold farmer in US servers had suffered seriously from the Blizzard's account banning actions.
Many 'world of warcraft' players may have realized that wow gold price is growing continuously in the whole market. The main reason, whether you know or not, is about Blizzard large-scale account closing. The official of Blizzard announced that they had closed 30000 accounts and eliminated 300 million wow gold which were hard-effort products made by many Chinese wow gamers. In the black July, the crazy closing-account behavior continues. As a result, thousands of farming accounts from China are closed and many game workshops in China are forced to close down. Is Blizzard crazy? Such closing-account behavior will lead to serious shortage of wow gold. Furthermore, many European and US wow players who are not willing to spend time on gold farming will lose much fun in the game because they fail to buy wow gold to purchase equipments in the game. In the end, Blizzard will lose a number of real gamers. Imagine what the Azeroth world would be like without Chinese wow gold farmers! Can a real wow gamer, take you as an example, continue to enjoy virtual life in world of warcraft?