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11 Innovation Lessons From the Creators of World of Warcraft
Ant writes "Colin Stewart's OC Register Inside Innovation blog has up a post discussing Blizzard Entertainment's success in the games industry. According to the site, Blizzard has learned eleven lessons on innovation that can help almost any business. The industry leader used these innovation methods not only to create the world's most popular massively multiplayer online game, World of Warcraft, but also to keep the game fresh and challenging for more than 10 million players. Because many of those customers pay $15 a month to continue playing, Blizzard's ongoing creative achievement is worth more than $1 billion a year in revenues, not counting the multi-millions it tallies from its other games."
But we'll never know what they are.
You are an idiot. The article was about business, not "why WoW is the biggest ticket in a crowded MMO genre".
You obviously didn't read the article the first time around, or you are borderline retarded.
If you notice this is a blog under the OC Registers Money section, this is not a section devoted to why "Blizzard is a gaming phenomenon".
Hell, the fucking article was called "11 innovation lessons from creators of World of Warcraft", and the first fucking paragraph says "Blizzard Entertainment, the envy of the computer game industry, has learned 11 lessons on innovation that can help almost any business.". Do you think "almost any business" would benefit from a discussion about "The game was pretty, it was shiny, and it was a rehash of things that have already been done".
And you did anything but "cut out the middleman for some other poor, bored, tired soul and let them know the article was not worth reading." since you imagined a completely different article and commented on that. More so, when someone pointed out that you completely missed the point of the article, you decided that instead of concede that you were wrong, you'd try and make it seem like you weren't retarded.
You Sir, have AIDS.
You and your 100 friends want a different game, I have no idea why you're playing WoW in the first place. I suggest you go thataway ------------> http://www.counter-strike.net/
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