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| metroid composite 10/09/19 10:14:56 AM #344: | redrocket posted... Also, ironically, Ulti has already gifted Blizzard with so much money on Hearthstone purchases that it would probably require at least an additional 500 players quitting just to make up for all the money he has already spent there. That is not how it works. Activision Blizzard laid off 800 employees at the start of this year in no small part because Hearthstone numbers were dipping. Companies need sustained revenue to support team sizes. (If anything the reddit complaint with hearthstone is that they hadn't been adding enough new features to hearthstone, so people wanted an even larger team to add even more stuff to the game; tournament mode, replays etc). And it's not just hearthstone players who are boycotting; people are cancelling their WoW subscriptions, cancelling their TFT preorders, etc. Reddit and GameFAQs are a bit of a bubble, granted, so who knows how big of an impact these boycotts will actually have. But there's no such thing as "oh, someone gave them hundreds of dollars a few years ago, so lots of people would need to quit to make up for that". I would estimate the operating budget of Hearthstone at probably around 20 million per year. --- Cats land on their feet. Toast lands peanut butter side down. A cat with toast strapped to its back will hover above the ground in a state of quantum indecision ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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