Tag: ACTIVISION

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/07/07/blizzard-starcraft-2-and-world-of-warcraft-facebook-integration-real-id'; I could clamber onto my soap box and rant all day about Blizzard's pathetic, poorly thought-out Real ID implementation - but - as this isn't a games blog, I've been told to keep it short and sweet. So, straight to the diabolical point: Real ID is just the ...

Yup, it's been a long time coming, but the out-of-game value-added services for World of Warcraft are finally emerging. The subscriber base has seemingly stagnated at a meager 13 million, and Blizzard [or Activision...] is looking for other creative ways of milking its bulbous bovine. First we saw in-game vanity items -- like pets and mounts -- and now we're actually seeing the start of an ...

Did you know that four million Chinese play World of Warcraft? You probably knew that a lot played it -- and that WoW has 13 million subscribers or so -- but four million? That's almost the population of Denmark or Scotland. And they're all having to go without their Warcraft fix... again! After a relaunch in September, the operators NetEase have been forced to shut down the realm of Azeroth yet ...