This calculation is wrong, because in China the game key cost about $3.5 and they buy hourly game cards to play the game, which cost abuout $3.5 per 66 hours per month. That could mean vast majority of the players in China not spending more than few dollars a month to subscribe and Blizzard probably taking less than a dollar from each subscriber after all the expenses. The 1.5 million people in China is possibly making Blizzard less than a million dollars a month not 22 million as calculated above.
As a biomedical scientist working in the field of HIV and immunology research in the past 15 years (having published over 40 papers in journals like Nature, Science) I fully and completely agree with Yeasbeast's comment. Where are the peer reviewed papers on these "major breakthroughs"?? If there was really a true breakthrough in either HIV or cancer research it would make it headline in Nature, Science or Cell, sorry to say/. headline only enhances these pure BS hype, because most don't quite understand the nature of biological research and discovery.
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This calculation is wrong, because in China the game key cost about $3.5 and they buy hourly game cards to play the game, which cost abuout $3.5 per 66 hours per month. That could mean vast majority of the players in China not spending more than few dollars a month to subscribe and Blizzard probably taking less than a dollar from each subscriber after all the expenses. The 1.5 million people in China is possibly making Blizzard less than a million dollars a month not 22 million as calculated above.
As a biomedical scientist working in the field of HIV and immunology research in the past 15 years (having published over 40 papers in journals like Nature, Science) I fully and completely agree with Yeasbeast's comment. Where are the peer reviewed papers on these "major breakthroughs"?? If there was really a true breakthrough in either HIV or cancer research it would make it headline in Nature, Science or Cell, sorry to say /. headline only enhances these pure BS hype, because most don't quite understand the nature of biological research and discovery.