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- Nothing was ever said about potential beta announcements for HotS on March 9 Call - confirmed with Blizzard PR.
- The "50 Million Users" includes WoW, SC2, Call of Duty and other Activision games - its an Activision Blizzard financial call, so consider that they are talking to investors, and talking in broad numbers - not specific live concurrent users on a specific platform (bnet). When they say "we have 50 million users", that probably means every user who signed up for an ActiBlizz online service (think of all the console titles that are included).
- 50 million users is not a figure that Blizzard has ever claimed about bnet...think about it, there are ~10m WoW players. Do you think there are 40m SC2 players 0_o?
Straight from PR: Earnings calls are not a place where players should be waiting on pins and needles looking for something important to them – we would tell our players through other means first. Even the Q2 D3 mention in the earnings call was made on the Battle.net forums simultaneously or before the earnings call happened.
Really consider what matters to an investor - a specific beta release date? or general scheduling of products to predict stock prices etc?
tl;dr if there is important info for the community, like beta info, its going to come via a more community focused announcement (fb, bnet forum, press release, social media) with all the usual bells and whistles - not on a financial call for suits.
- Kennigit
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The Q4 2011 Earnings call will take place on February 9, at 1:30 PM PST, which brings us an update on the magical fairyland which is Blizzard for the final quarter of 2011 and a sneak peak into 2012. So if you are an obsessed Starcraft2 fan that is desperate hoping to get a release date of the expansion HOTS then by all means, join in to the call!
The week of the call may also bring us information on other upcoming releases, if there will be any announcement expect it before the call takes place. So In order to join in and find out just how much delayed HOTS will be all you need is to follow this link:http://investor.activision.com/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=108428
Summary from the call that relates to Starcraft II and Esports:
- No date or estimate when HotS will be released, It might be released during 2013, might be released today or just cancelled altogether. The usual.
More info about HotS March 9th, that's the only concrete thing regarding the Starcraft II expansion.
- Blizzard will take a more active role in Esports during 2012 (Might refer to the their newly created tournament)
Additional info regarding Diablo III and Wow since people asked for it:
- World of Warcraft now has 10.2M active subscribers.
- World of Warcraft lost 100,000 subscribers, down to 10.2 million. This was a total lost of 1.8 million for the year.
- There are ~50 million active Battle.net users.
- Diablo III should launch in Q2
- More than one million Annual Passes have been sold in the West.
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I'm interested to see how World of Warcraft is doing with some new MMO's coming out and SWTOR's success, should be interesting to see whats going on! Hopefully we can get a timeframe for when HotS is going to be released thats more up to date than a rough date from a while ago.
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Do they give the release dates of when the beta might be realeased too, do you know?
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Will be interested to see how many more subscribers dropped WoW. Maybe we will finally get the release date on D3
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A beta date should come out of this.
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Is there a chance they announce a D3 release date during the conference call?
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Even if they did it would not matter that much. Blizzard are infamous of taking the time it takes for a project to finish. The most notorious example was Warcraft3 that was delayed by 3 years, or Starcraft Ghost along with a Warcraft game which never got finished since they felt it was not the standard of Blizzard games.All the other releases of Blizzard has so far been delayed ( Wow exp, mists of pandaria and Diablo3).
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On January 30 2012 09:17 tsuxiit wrote:
A beta date should come out of this.
From experience listening to these things, they are incredibly boring power points about earnings. If I were a betting man, I'd put money on nothing of interest coming out unless you find Diablo 3's RMAH to be riveting listening material.
Save yourself the time and ignore it. Wait until after it's done and find any salvageable tidbits from the various fansites.
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On January 30 2012 09:25 urashimakt wrote:From experience listening to these things, they are incredibly boring power points about earnings. If I were a betting man, I'd put money on nothing of interest coming out unless you find Diablo 3's RMAH to be riveting listening material.
we should prank the call then 
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On January 30 2012 09:17 tsuxiit wrote:
A beta date should come out of this.
If you look at the last one:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=283801
You'll see that they barely put anything out there for us gamers, it's 99% financial information and stuff like "We're doing this soon, is expected to earn us this much money".
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Some things will be said about progress and release dates to satisfy the shareholders, giving out how far they are in the creation of the games are a big part of that, Just don't expect them to go "X will be released during YY in Feb" it will most likley be " Game X has been delayed another 3 months" or we forsee the game being released during the second quarter this year, or something along that line.
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If I recall, there was something useful that came out of the last conference call, so this might be worth listening to.
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On January 30 2012 09:29 motbob wrote:
If I recall, there was something useful that came out of the last conference call, so this might be worth listening to.
with emphasis on something  It has been proven to be interesting in the past. They do give out allot of stuff you don't normally hear about.
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Didn't sc2 beta get announced in one of these? I forget. I remember listening to one before sc2 came out though and being very happy.
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Will some record it or write down q annd a for those who miss it ,if so can we find it on teamlqiuid
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On January 30 2012 09:45 Shock710 wrote:
Will some record it or write down q annd a for those who miss it ,if so can we find it on teamlqiuid
There is always someone who posts the important to the TL community notes and other miscellany here
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On January 30 2012 09:30 Integra wrote:Show nested quote +On January 30 2012 09:29 motbob wrote:
If I recall, there was something useful that came out of the last conference call, so this might be worth listening to. with emphasis on something It has been proven to be interesting in the past. They do give out allot of stuff you don't normally hear about.
IIRC, Q3 conference call was just a rehash of what was said in Blizzcon, basically Panda expansion for WoW and Diablo III in early 2012. Exciting news for sure, but nothing breaking.
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yes im ready, nice music blizzard!
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Most important of all, I want a D3 release date
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