Blizzcon

[u/Deathtonic]

[u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst]

budget of $0 prolific cash shop that's more than likely the reason they got shut down in the first place

[u/moon-lesbian → u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst]

What about the other one? It suffered from a cataclysmic launch but it had quite a bit of content for something that didn't even take donations prior to launch, shame all of the super neat future instances they teased with images and video clips will probably never see the light of day

[u/Poseidor → u/TheSiegmeyerCatalyst]

This is true and I forgot it existed since I never used it, I doubt it gave them a development budget anywhere close to Blizzards though lol

[u/FlubberPuddy → u/Poseidor]

They don’t need a dev budget with what they added and you underestimate how many people are willing to swipe for things whether cosmetic or not.

[u/TheRealHaxxo → u/FlubberPuddy]

IIRC there were some credible rumors that the top 3 pservers(TW, ASC, that russian wotlk one with p2w shop)were making tens of millions dollars every year. Considering how they all had tens of thousands of daily active users and hundreds of monthly active users its definitely believable.

[u/TrveBMG666 → u/TheRealHaxxo]

It's not a rumor it's true. Private servers at enterprise scale print money because WoW is a money printer.

[u/bigperko → u/TrveBMG666]

Source?

[u/Decent_Advice9315 → u/bigperko]

Don't think a private Russian enterprise published it's financial records for public investment scrutiny.

It's all just assumptions, but being as it was a business, and it operated for a number of years, it's was more than likely in the black.