Blizzard Tainment has reacted to the criticisms
Destiny has reached more than 20 million active accounts. players have played for more than 2 billion hours of gameplay since it its launch in September of WoTLK Gold. that's around 100 hours of gaming for every player on average. World of Warcraft , Heroes of the Storm, and Destiny combined to create 70 million registered players as well as more than $1.25 billion in revenue in the first year. World of Warcraft subscriptions continued to fall, dropping between 7.1 million, to 5.6 million. Activision says that the game has remained the world's No. one subscription-based game on this planet. World of Warcraft has now sold more than 30 million copies in the past.
The first World of Warcraft expansion will be announced this week at Gamescom. As has been proven time and again, expansions are a way to keep people coming back. As of the end of 2014. World of Warcraft had 10 million customers.
The decline could have been higher had it not been for World of Warcraft 's huge Fury of Hellfire update, which helped "stabilize" subscription numbers, Activision said.
In terms of financial growth, Activision Blizzard revenue rose during the quarter. The company earned $759 million in revenue for the quarter, a rise from $658 million last year. Profit was $93 million- more than the $45 million of net income this time last year.
Another bright spot was digital revenue, which hit an all-time high of $611 million over the period, up by 27 percent from the same period last year.
Activision Blizzard will hold an earnings call to discuss the figures and more tomorrow, starting at 1:30 pm PDT / 4:30 PM Eastern. Check back later for more.
Blizzard Tainment has reacted to the criticisms regarding World of Warcraft 's controversial enemy-scaling changes. Recently, it was discovered that the values of enemy health in the MMO WOW WoTLK Classic Gold may change according to the amount of equipment you have equipped. This huge change, which Blizzard stated it was against in the past (via Eurogamer), is now being changed in response to what players have said about it.