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Investors: the popularity of the beloved game «WOW» fall?

Nov 20, 2011


In the U.S. market is maturing gaming sensation that can lead to some rearrangement in the gaming Olympus, and thus redirect the flow of investment in this area. Thus, the incredibly popular game in recent years «World of Warcraft» in front of fans lose. This fact is confirmed by leading American and European editions of play themes, writes in the "News Russia" magazine "Market Leader".

Recall, «World of Warcraft» - multiplayer online role-playing game, which the developer is holding «Blizzard Entertainment». This version of the game was already fourth in the series «Warcraft», received international recognition (to prove it can serve numerous prestigious awards in the gaming community), quickly became popular in the gaming world. The main difference between this version «Warcraft» from earlier is that this game is not real-time strategy. In it, controlling your character, you can roam the countryside, explore it, fight monsters, perform the task. The player can fight against other players in duels, arenas. If successful, the player's job experience there, things, money. What does such a seemingly unpretentious game captivated gamers?

Multilevel structural imaging (allows to grow at the same time with the game), purpose (gamer defines it for himself), an increase of the last level. All this made the WOW's most popular MMORPG-game in the world with its own virtual laws, markets, financial institutions, foundations. However, in recent years according to official figures this game left more than 1.7 million of 12 million fans, which resulted in lowering the cost of the developer company's stock by 3%. However, despite this, the net profit in the third quarter amounted to 148 million dollars, and its leader is hardly to be doubted.

According to experts of the Academy of forex and stock trading Masterforex-V, speaking of the long-term recommendations, the company's shares Developer «Activision Blizzard» are quite attractive. By the way, many analysts have revised their own forecasts, which may be a consequence of growth in sales and earnings per share. But still, what does the future hold popularly beloved «World of Warcraft»?

Of course, due to the recent departure of a large number of fans "toys" in the 4th quarter of this year and a quarter of the next loss will be significant. In addition, it is worth remembering that on the horizon loomed the potential hits like «Star Wars: The Old Republic», «Guild Wars 2», «The Secret World», «TERA» and others who have come in the next few months. They can undermine leadership WOW.

However, the company «Blizzard» feels competition from peers and is already preparing the release of a new game «Titan», which is scheduled for release end of 2013.

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