In addition, during the post-earnings financial conference, Activision has confirmed Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm isn't going to be released in 2012, but is expected to launch in the first half of 2013.
In the end, Activision refused to comment on an analyst's question about the WoW cataclysm Gold settlement amount it paid for Infinity Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zampella. One analyst has estimated the figure to be somewhere in the region of "tens to millions."
Dota 2 players currently outnumber WoW Cataclysm Classic subscribers
Valve's hugely profitable MOBA, Dota 2, currently has many more gamers than Blizzard's game-changing MMO, WoW Cataclysm Classicin the numbers of players that were released publicly by Valve.
Dota 2's official Dota 2 blog is home to a counter that tracks the total number of players that the game has had over the past month. As reported by Reddit player dagla the counter indicates that Dota 2's players have surpassed 7.86 million players in the last month. This puts it just a bit ahead of the 7.8 million users WoW Cataclysm Classic had when Activision first reported figures in February.
There is, naturally an important distinction that needs to make: WoW Cataclysm Classic players are all subscribers, each of whom pay $15 to play the game each month (unless they opt to purchase a subscription for longer durations, in which case they receive discounts).
Dota 2, by contrast is a no-cost game and is a non-aggressive one in several ways. Contrary to rival League of Legends, it gives players access to every character at no cost. Instead, it earns money from the sales of cosmetics as well as new voice packs for announcers and other items that do not have an directly impact on the game.
In general it's a tiny percentage of the players in free-to-play games ever make a purchase. A recent report found that the figure was 2.2 percent. Although it's possible that the paid players of Dota 2 spend more than $15 each month, we don't have no way to know for certain the amount of money Blizzard and Valve are earning from the two games.
It is also worth noting that while Dota 2's 7.86 million players is a staggering number but it's not even close the League of Legends' player number. The the developer Riot Games announced the game was attracting more than 27 million players per day, with an impressive number of 67 millions gamers per month.
Valve launched its first ever documentary film entitled the film Free to Play, last month. It follows the story of 3 professional Dota 2 players as they trained to compete in the very first Dota 2 International Tournament. It also recently introduced an update called the Spring Cleaning update for Dota 2 which includes a broad array of new features and bugs fixes.
AU Shippin" Out October 10-14, 2011: WoW Cataclysm Classic: Wrath of the Lich King
If last week's huge lineup of Gears of War 2, Little Big Planet, or Rock Band didn't interest you perhaps you'll do higher this week. In simple terms, it's a huge week of games! There's something that will appeal to everyone this week that include WoW Cataclysm Classic: Wrath of the Lich King, Mirror's Edge WoW Cataclysm Classic, WoW Cataclysm Classic and much more.
On Thursday, at midnight, players from across Australia will be able to take hands on the highly anticipated expansion pack for WoW Cataclysm Classic, titled buy WoW Cataclysm Classic Gold: Wrath of the Lich King. The new features that are included inside the new expansion package are raising the cap on levels by the level of 80 (previously 70) as well as a new continent named Northrend that players can explore as well as the introduction of a new class, called The Death Knight. Apart from the regular version of the game Blizzard will release a special edition of WoW:WotLK, which comes with the bonus pet, 208-page artbook as well as a making-of DVD and soundtrack, a mouse pad and WoW cards.
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