World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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bixxby
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Yeah, finding a guild that doesn't make you want to rupture your eardrums trying to raid is hard. Joined a 10 man raid guild that was working through ToT but took the first opportunity I got to just bail out. Some annoying fuckers constantly yacking for 3 hours isn't fun.
I don't doubt Acti-Blizz showed record profts with MOP, D3, and many Activision titles. Blizz will continue to make money, but the brand isn't what it used to be. D3 was not D2. There is no WOW expansion on the horizon. Subs will continue to bleed. In addition, Acti-Blizz just borrowed 4 Billion to buyout Vivendi so they have a nice chunk of debt, instead of a huge wad of cash. I can't see D3 doing much on consoles, which is their next big push.
I'd be concerned if I worked at Blizzard, since I think WOW will contract for the foreseeable future, and with Titan being on Ice, I'd be surprised if they don't do 'reorgs'.
Ukerric
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... until November 8th where the Return of the Legion is announced for Q2 2014 during Blizzcon opening.
Which analysts estimate will be paid back in about 2 years.
spronk
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interest rates are very low and you can write off a big % of the interest payments on your taxes (its really bond issuances so slightly different but same idea). Basically big companies and rich people always want to have some debt since it lets you keep cash around (which itself is earning interest or being invested) and pay almost nothing to borrow the money. It gets even crazier when you realize many of these companies legally funnel vast sums of money into offshore locations to avoid paying taxes in US/EU.
Ukerric
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Apple has over 130 billion (yes, billion) $ in cash stored offshore.
Think of the debt reduction one could do with those back taxes...
Ukerric
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Blizzard is 100% owned by Activision-Blizzard, which itself is no longer majority-owned by Vivendi.
Wombat
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I don't know about safe. MoP came out in Sep of 12, and since BC, the most they've gone is 25 months. (Plus virtually all of the Titan people are, in theory, available for work inside Blizzard.)
If anything, an announcement at Blizzcon, a beta server starting that day (which every Blizzcon attendee gets access to), and a release in August 14 or so is more likely.
Pretty much this.
Sometimes the mouth breathers that use Vent even when they take shit, makes you just want to be to call in a drone strike.
Caeden
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Actually, the one thing that did get me was hearing "jeapardize your chance at getting into the guild..."
I stopped them then and said "I'm too old to be put through a damn hazing process by a 23 year old McDonalds manager. You saw me tank, invite or let me leave your fucking vent server."
We'll see. I have two friends there. Both girls. Sounds like trouble already.
I stopped them then and said "I'm too old to be put through a damn hazing process by a 23 year old McDonalds manager. You saw me tank, invite or let me leave your fucking vent server."
We'll see. I have two friends there. Both girls. Sounds like trouble already.
The thing is the problems - along with the drop in subs - is down to the game reaching critical mass. Sub drops are accelerating.
The game is too easy now even for the mouth breathers. I've been back playing a month and in the next week I'll have got one of every class to max level (only one of those was above lvl 70 a month ago, half are fresh rerolled chars from lvl 1) and done most of what the game has to offer. I haven't even been playing hardcore.
Once they've made it so easy it's hard to go back on it and make anything feel worthwhile.