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by Mike Schramm 
Feb 19th 2009 at 3:30PM
An industry survey put together by GI.biz has voted WoW's own Activision Blizzard as the most likely videogame publisher to succeed in 2009. Not that surprising -- not only do they have the Warcraft behemoth under their belt, but Starcraft 2 is rumored for a release this year, as is a sequel to 2007's best selling game, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and a Guitar Hero spinoff called DJ Hero.And who knows what BlizzCon will hold -- even though we're only now reaching the steps of Icecrown, the time is ripe for Blizzard to start hinting at content patches that come after 3.1, or maybe even expansion number three. Blizzard and their parent company at Activision are on top of the world right now, so there's no question why 30% of the industry folks surveyed said they'd have the biggest 2009 around. We can't wait.
[via Joystiq]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Expansions, Making money, BlizzCon
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Psy Feb 20th 2009 6:02PM
That's why they rich? That's why they are merged with Blizzard, the developer of the most popular MMO in the WORLD?
What do they monopolize? The gaming industry, that's what. I thought that was fairly obvious, guess not.
bob Feb 20th 2009 7:43PM
Tell me Psy, who is your contact within the gaming industry.
Tumleren Feb 21st 2009 8:53AM
You know that merging requires two companies to agree? They didn't buy Blizzard. Blizzard didn't just say "Okay, here, take all we have please".
Blizzard is making money off of this merger, just like Activision is. Or losing money just like Activision.
Blizzard merged with Activision - Maker of one of the most popular social games. Why isn't Blizzard the ones who're out for money? Because they make a game you like? That makes them unable to make decisions that increases the company's revenue, or simply adds some attention to their company.
Activision and Blizzard are both companies with very popular franchises: Diablo, Call of Duty, WoW, Guitar Hero.
And just for your information: Vivendi Games (Blizzard) 'acquired' Acitvision. Not the other way around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision
"On December 2, 2007, it was announced that Activision would be acquired by Vivendi Games."
"Vivendi Games owns the rights to [...] Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo and World of Warcraft"