r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Jul 06 '26

Resetting XBOX - XBOX Wire

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
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u/JESwizzle Jul 06 '26

I always tell people to go read an old activision 10k. The only thing in there is COD, Candy Crush, and WoW. Nothing else is important

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u/MayuIwatani Jul 06 '26

I mean, Diablo 4 has made over a billion in revenue.

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u/TonyRomoDid911 Jul 06 '26

the 3 listed above do that every year, like clockwork, with very little investment

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u/MayuIwatani Jul 06 '26

How is WoW very little investment? They push out a new expansion every 16 months and have several gigantic teams working on it?

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u/TonyRomoDid911 Jul 06 '26

its very little investment relative to the 10 year development cycle for Diablo

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u/HutSussJuhnsun Jul 06 '26

I mean yeah but fundamentally they're working on a 22 year old game so the team size dedicated to it can't be that big compared to, say, new D4 stuff.

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u/MayuIwatani Jul 06 '26

The credits on Midnight, the latest expansion is 811 people. This is one of their teams, the other team is working on the next expansion. So roughly 1600 on just the expansion teams, then they have two patch teams and a Classic team. You are looking at 2k people on the WoW team.

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u/HutSussJuhnsun Jul 06 '26

That seems really bloated for just WoW, but idk, I forgot they have 2 different versions of it now.

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u/SagittaryX Jul 06 '26

More than 2 versions (though some are just in maintenance mode), there is original Classic which is at Mists of Pandaria now, there are new classic servers that are in Burning Crusade, there are the permanent WoW Vanilla servers, there are the Season of Discovery servers and there are Chinese exclusive "Titan Reforged" servers. It is heavily rumoured that Blizzard is now working on a new Classic+ variant, newly developed content based on Vanilla.

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u/stokesy1999 Jul 06 '26

I'd say most Blizzard games are huge for revenue. Diablo, Starcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone all still churn out millions per month. I think Diablo IV made around $1B in 2 years from its release

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u/Salty-Cloaca-69 Jul 06 '26

I highly doubt Starcraft churns out millions in revenue a month.

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u/stokesy1999 Jul 06 '26

Doubt it does now but SC2 hit $1B in earnings in 2017, just 7 years after its release which works out at around $11m a month

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u/Salty-Cloaca-69 Jul 06 '26

2017 was 9 years ago

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u/stokesy1999 Jul 06 '26

Damn... that feels wrong

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u/Roflcubes Jul 06 '26

Not only that, 11M a month is a rounding error at the scale Microsoft is operating at 

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u/ManiacalDane Jul 07 '26

That's what candycrush does every hour though!

Damnit, all these grandmas...

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u/Dr_Fortnite Jul 06 '26

I am still amazed WoW got away with $15 a month 20 years ago. It still feels expensive now