World of Warcraft Extension could cause 40% players to lose

Commercial News (reporter Rotin) in the 5 million players promised to open the service deadline was delayed, NetEase yesterday had to issue a bulletin called "World of Warcraft" in the preparation process encountered some "uncontrollable accident", but NetEase did not disclose the specific date of the open service.　　However, the industry believes that even if the game will also reduce the opening of about 40% of the players, Warcraft income will be reduced by half.　　Although the announcement is due to "accident" and lead to the game, but NetEase also indirectly admitted that "World of Warcraft" has not yet been approved by the relevant government departments. In fact, NetEase in order to obtain the world's largest online game, "Wow," the agency right at the cost.　　Yesterday, JPMorgan reported that NetEase was the agent of World of Warcraft, the cost of three years 214.6 million dollars, much higher than the nine cities in 2004 signed the four-year agency contract when the 50 million dollars. There are good people according to the "World of Warcraft" in the nine city period of operation of the forecast netease every delay opening a day, the game will lose 4.22 million yuan.　　But the real threshold for NetEase is not the huge loss of the transition, but the fact that even if the World of Warcraft is censored, it is still facing a sharp reduction in the net. Reporter consults a number of online games senior personage, the general forecast future "World of Warcraft" in the operation of NetEase under the player will lose about 40%, the most conservative forecast also as high as 25%. Industry insiders said, because the current "World of Warcraft" has been operating for four years, the current version (TBC) has no game content. "There will certainly be a large number of players entering the service, but if the new data is not open, the number of World of Warcraft players will soon fall sharply," the source said. The claim that half the income is halved should be established. The person has also stressed that the life cycle of the online games is sustained by the information film. The number of players jumped 1/3 when the first piece of World of Warcraft TBC opened.　　and has not yet been in the mainland to be submitted to the second WLK new game content, almost a new game, as long as it can be successfully launched, the number of players may still break through the peak. But the problem is that NetEase is currently submitting the old version of the TBC version of World of Warcraft, so wait until the wlk version of World of Warcraft online can be said to be a distant future. "Even in the most successful way, it will take at least three months, which does not include the time to modify the content of the game."　　The professionals told reporters. Therefore, the huge "empty window period" I am afraid will let NetEase bear unacceptable money and player losses. Yi View President Yu for the matter to reporters: "World of Warcraft event mark this big investment in the game Agent agency in China's end, the future will not have a second netease." ”