World of Warcraft Floats Vivendi Games

Posted by Zonk on Thursday November 17, 2005 @07:42AM from the nice-to-have-someone-to-borrow-from dept.

Gamasutra reports that Vivendi Universal Games posted strong revenues for the third quarter, largely thanks to some MMOG. From the article: "The previously troubled game division, which the company had earlier been attempting to sell off, saw revenues increase by 88 percent to 158 million ($189m), thanks to the global success of Blizzard's massively multiplayer role-playing game World of WarCraft. The game's success has also had a positive effect on operating profits, which rose to 7 million ($8 million), from a loss of 32 million ($37m) at the same time last year." Unrelatedly, but humorously, Joystiq reports that WoW showed up as a Jeopardy! question recently.

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Forget the WoW factor... by __aaclcg7560 · 2005-11-17 08:47 · Score: 2, Insightful

What I want to know is when the prices for the older Blizzard Battle Chest games (i.e., Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft) will drop in prices? They been selling them for $39 USD for years now.