Blizzard and Activision Announce $18.8bn Merger

I'd be down with that.

What's odd. Now, I was on steam yesterday and bought CS (source) Finally, and seen a SHIT LOAD of games on there, because now that Activision and Bilzzard we're partners, and Steam is thrown into the mix, it's just one huge gaming monopoly.

I would imagine them using the steam platform for future games such as SC2 possibly, maybe integrate Battle.net into this somehow?...

Blizzard is already rich enough! They are getting $15 a month from over 7 million people! That is more than $105 mill a month! There is no way that WOW costs that much to run. Or even close to it. Why do they now feel that they need more money?

Blizzard is already rich enough! They are getting $15 a month from over 7 million people! That is more than $105 mill a month! There is no way that WOW costs that much to run. Or even close to it. Why do they now feel that they need more money?

I guess you don't understand the market economy do you?

Most likely not. But still. 105 Mill a month! You do think that is a bit much don't you?

9 million now, actually. And when they release Return of the Lich King i'm sure they'll get atleast another 2-3 million within the first month of releasing it as new customers, and probably a good 80% of regular WoW members signing on. And don't forget SC:2, there's still tons of hype for that and i'm part of the bandwagon that will be hopping on once it's released, and it will too, probably cost money to play online.

And just imagine if Diablo 3 came out as a MMO, and charged to play online. Blizzard's earnings would be unimaginable.

That could end in being around 500 mill. That can't be argued as not to much.