With Blizzard’s latest expansion Mists of Pandaria sold throughout the world since
September 26, that news about the sales of the game never ceased. For in May, 2012,
the Diablo 3 also of Blizzard break a sales record, thus lots of players want to see
that is the king of the MMORPG market which dominated the Europe and the United
States for years, will down the altars as for the loss of Cataclysm players.
The week of World of Warcraft sales promotion begins, from now on till the Pacific
daylight time 11:59 pm.
The World of Warcraft Armor (including the initial version of the game, The Burning
Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King), the price is only about $5. And the World of
Warcraft: Cataclysm is also only for $5, and the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria
is $19.99. This means that if you want to buy all the content of World of Warcraft
since it’s launched in 2004, you only need $29.99 in total.
With Blizzard’s latest expansion Mists of Pandaria sold throughout the world since
September 26, that news about the sales of the game never ceased. For in May, 2012,
the Diablo 3 also of Blizzard break a sales record, thus lots of players want to see
that is the king of the MMORPG market which dominated the Europe and the United
States for years, will down the altars as for the loss of Cataclysm players.
Refer to the reports that time, the financial research firm Lazard Capital economic
analysts indicate that, when the game first week sales is expected to be 6-700000
only, compared with the Cataclysm 3.3 million sales during the first week, really
make players disappoint about it. However, the loss of World of Warcraft players at
that time, the main reason is the competition from Guild Wars 2.
But now, considering that the World of Warcraft during February to April this year,
World of Warcraft loss 1.3 million more players, Blizzard’s action at the time, it’
s clearly to lower the threshold of games, thus to attract new players to the game.
Will this method work? Will it make a big difference to the game? Let’s look forward
to it together.
