cost of WoW?

Saber · Peasant Joined: Jan 17, 2004 Posts: 19

How much do you think WoW will cost per month?

King_Sausage · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject:

anywhere from 5-10 dollars a month US.

HeadSpin · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject:

Yes, maybe around 5-10 $ by month...

King_Sausage · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject:

The game itself is going to cost around 50-60 dollars US. 60 bucks and a 5 dollar monthly fee? I'm sorry, but no game is worth that amount of money.

HeadSpin · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:43 pm Post subject:

Well its gonna be something like 60 bucks with 1 month free access to the server than its gonna be 5$ by month ( I hope )...

Sargeras · Peasant Joined: Jan 16, 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Australia

Oh man. In Australia thats gonna cost $100 then $10 a month. Darn sarn it

Saber · Peasant Joined: Jan 17, 2004 Posts: 19

if you think about it blizzard should not have to charge much, just think. how many people will be playing this game? lets just say 20,000. then about $50-$60 for the game it self and then, lets say $5 a month. in that first month blizzard would make something like $1,100,000
so. they really shouldnt have a high monthly cost

King_Sausage · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:46 pm Post subject:

I had said this many times before, and i'm going to say it again for the record.

Blizzard should have made Starcraft 2 even before WC3. Let's break down the facts.

The Starcraft series is more of a money maker than the Matrix series. The original Starcraft is the second greatest selling game of all time. The game sold and estimated over 8,000,000 copies. The game came out at 50$ and stayed at 50$ for more than 6 months when the bulk of those copies were sold. Let's go into the numbers

8,000,000 X 50 = and estimated $40,000,000

$40,000,000 dollars alone would have been more than enough to run that server for free, but let's go even further.

Now, they've made Warcraft 3, which has sold around 2,000,000(not counting copies since price drop) copies already at 50 dollars a piece.

2,000,000 X 50 = $10,000,000

That's 50 MILLION DOLLARS not even counting Frozen Throne. And I think it would be safe to increase th SC number to about 55 million because of the anticipation of a sequel.

65 million dollars. You'd able to run about 6 WoW servers free with that kind of money.

But of course, Blizzard has no fiscal intelligence to realize the massive money maker they created.

Warblast · Prophet Joined: Sep 07, 2003 Posts: 23

If they are charging 60$ from the starts its because they give you about 3 month of services...This is a possibility!

HeadSpin · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 2:42 pm Post subject:

Yea, they might give you more than 1 month free, maybe 2-3. Sounds more appropriate.
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Furion · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 2:48 pm Post subject:

In february next year i'm 18 and i will probly have a credit card and will most likely pay an annual fee so i don't have to think about it for a year.
I really want this game to be the most played on my new computer when i get it. Razz

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King_Sausage · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject:

I will buy it if Blizzard offers a package deal that gives a few free months of server acess. This will allow me to put a fund aside to pay for the fees, because I know they'll be upped after those first few months.

Goku · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:29 pm Post subject:

Well if its $50-60 That'll make it 30-40Pounds and about 2-3Pounds a month if its all converted correctly Very Happy

hehehe... costs me less if so Very Happy

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King_Sausage · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject:

who made that sig pic?

HeadSpin · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:54 am Post subject:

Guess
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