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"World of Warcraft" CEO Talks the Economy of the Video Game Industry - Video 7/9/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | July 9, 2009 | BrianinMO

Posted on 07/09/2009 2:50:40 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot

Here is a video interview with the CEO of Activision Blizzard Inc., Robert Kotick, whose company owns such huge names in the video game industry as Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft. He discusses how the economy is impacting the video game industry. He says video games are actually doing very well since it is a relatively cheap form of entertainment. . . . . . (Watch Video)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: blizzard; economy; videogames; worldofwarcraft; wow

1 posted on 07/09/2009 2:50:40 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
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To: Federalist Patriot
Since you can make "gold" in online games, will Obama want to count players as employed in the US economic stats?
2 posted on 07/09/2009 2:53:45 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
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To: raven92876

ping


3 posted on 07/09/2009 3:16:41 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: KarlInOhio

Wow characters will be required to PVE mobbs for free and all proceeds from Ironforge auctions will go straight to Obama’s dreams. It will be Uber PWNage for Democrat dreamland.


4 posted on 07/09/2009 4:01:01 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: KarlInOhio

They do, and the boys at 4Chan will hack the white house so fact he’ll be wondering who ganked him in Silverpine Forest.


5 posted on 07/09/2009 4:02:41 PM PDT by ThePanFromJapan (The Pundit class is going to be crapping bricks at what's coming next...*evil grin*)
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To: Soothesayer
I am sure BO will make sure Blacksmiths, Tailors, Leather Workers etc. will be capped on how much they can charge for Blues and Purples that they put in the AH.

Plus BO will make it that 60% of all loot dropped in instance guild runs will be redistributed to the non guilded players and lower levels just to be fair. Can't have those elitist guilds only getting the good loot.

Then there will be huge tax on all characters who earn more than 1000g a week to help out noobs.

Then there is the issue of prices for consumables and mats for finished goods how best to control that. Plus all players will be required a gather quota on raw materials making so that gathered RM’s will be redistributed evenly to the lesser players of the game that have not skilled up yet.

Obama economics will be bad news for the WoW economy.

6 posted on 07/09/2009 4:31:36 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: Federalist Patriot

What is power-leveling, and how do you do it?


7 posted on 07/09/2009 5:08:54 PM PDT by DCBryan1 ( Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: Captain Beyond
Oh yeah forgot to mention the climate change bill for WoW in which there in be tax increase on older enchants so people will move on to using the newer green enchants to reduce the size of their enchanting foot print.

Plus goblins and gnomes will have to completely retool for greener engineering gadgets and then there will be the phasing out of goblin rocket fuel for the eco friendly ethanol with agricultural farming of corn as a new profession.

8 posted on 07/09/2009 5:17:58 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: DCBryan1

http://www.wowwiki.com/Power_leveling


9 posted on 07/09/2009 5:22:51 PM PDT by kanawa
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