There's no surprise here: World of Warcraft was the most popular game in WoTLK Gold. This morning, Activision Blizzard reported its financial results for fiscal 2011 and the success that the game's first-person-shooter series led to the record-breaking profits of $1.08 billion, on revenue that totaled $4.76 billion. It's an impressive improvement from the year before, when the company's profits were $418 million on revenue in the range of $4.45 billion.
Modern Warfare 3 was a major contributor to the bottom line of Activision Blizzard.
Activision Blizzard did not reveal the exact numbers of sales on Modern Warfare 3 buy WoTLK Classic Gold. but it did announce the game's social network, World of Warcraft: Elite. On January 31 the game's social platform had 7 million registered players, and more than 1.5 million sign up for the premium tier of $50.
It's not surprising that the company announced that a brand new game in the World of Warcraft franchise will be out in 2012. The company also stated that it was developing Elite 2.0. with details to be announced in the coming months.
It appears that Activision Blizzard's investment in the market for toys has paid dividends. The company named Skylanders' Spyro's Adventure the No. #1 game for kids in 2011 and added that they sold 20 million of toys inspired by the series. The company is planning to launch another installment of this series called Skylanders Giants, in 2012.
