Activision Down, Vivendi Waaay Up 31
Gamespot is reporting that Activision faces delisting from NASDAQ due to non-compliance. They failed to report their quarterly earnings on time, a situation the company says they will correct as soon as 'practicable.' Meanwhile, Vivendi earnings are up 190% No, that's not a typo. Two guesses as to why. From the article: "Unsurprisingly, Vivendi Games attributed the profit spike largely due to what it describes as 'the higher margin of the World of Warcraft business.' It also cited other factors, including the start-up investments for the Sierra Online and Vivendi Games Mobile divisions and strong sales of Scarface: The World Is Yours in October." Translation: "We have a money hat machine! Yay!"
wow (Score:1)
What could be worse than that? Oh, wait, I know.. (Score:2)
I would kill... (Score:2)
If they left the creative talent to the Blizzard team and just have Sony do the admin work (like they do with a lot of projects) it would actually be a good relationship. EQ and EQ2's uptime far exceeds WoW's uptime, even the low pop servers.
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I'd basically give up gaming all together if EA owned everything.
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But yeah, I'm sure Vivendi's looking to sell off this cash cow reeeal soon.
anyone find it interesting... (Score:1)
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The same can be said of just about any industry though. Just look at video card manufacturers. Hell, nobody was ever going to topple 3dfx.
And computer manufacturers: look at the remnants of SGI, DEC, Amstrad, Atari (again), Commodore (Amiga), BBC, Honeybee, Sinclair... Damn, I shouldn't have started
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No big mystery... (Score:1, Informative)
As the studio grows, the other business realities start to take hold. The founders and other talent brought on board earlier in the life of the company often get a little burnt out and leave, or in the case of a merger/aquisition, the new management d
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In more game financials (Score:2)
Delisting isn't a big deal. (Score:3, Insightful)
Dell, Novell and Apple [crn.com] have also received delisting notices at some point. Let me know if/when Activision actually gets pulled off the exchange.
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Woah! (Score:3, Interesting)
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Many (most!) of those subs are in the asian market -- they don't pay $15USD per month to play. It's less. Much less.
Still, WoW is a money hat machine, regardless.
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looks like he's correct.