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In P2Pah's all-new preview that the expansion will bring many WOTLK Gold new features to the WOW world. The title's villain can be identified as Arthas, the sinister antihero that is featured prominently in the World of Warcraft World of Warcraft expansion who is now a World of Warcraft lord. The action of the expansion is set in the world of Northrend which is a cold and icy place whose inhabitants and geography heavily in the direction of Norse mythology.
Alongside the formalization of WoLK's windows, Vivendi announced an update on WOW's player base, which will certainly grow as the game's add-on launches on the market. At the end of March the game that is massively multiplayer had more than 10.7 million players. This has helped Blizzard earn EUR192 millions ($297 millions) in revenue in the first quarter. That's approximately EUR64 millions ($99 million) each month.
Excluding "the cost for costs" of Vivendi's game division that comprises Sierra entertainment, the company produced EUR99 millions ($153 million) in adjusted earnings prior to taxation on income and interest (EBITA) in the last quarter, or approximately EUR33 millions ($51.0 million) each month.
What an impact the World of Warcraft expansion makes. In January of this year, PC gamers worldwide got their latest update from Blizzard entertainment with The Burning Crusade. It was the debut expansion for the best-selling 2004 edition of the veteran publisher's massively multiplayer game which broke records in terms of revenues and gamers. Burning Crusade didn't perform shabbily its own and sold 2.4 million units in just 24 hours -- the fastest rate of retail sales for any PC game. It also surpassed it with the 3.5 million in just two months.
Today, the absence an WOW increase in 2008 was evident as Blizzard parent Vivendi SA announced its earnings for the quarter that ended March 31, the beginning in its financial year. In all, the multi-national conglomerate that comprises it's Universal Music Group, Canal+ television channel, as well as Vivendi Games -- year-over-year, revenues increased 5.2 percentage points up to EUR5.28 billion ($8.16 billion). However the adjusted earnings before income tax and interest (EBITA) decreased 5.6 percentage in the year to EUR1.2 billion ($1.85 billion) in comparison to the year before.
It's not surprising that Vivendi Games -- which comprises Blizzard and Sierra Entertainment--swaps a steeper revenue loss. Over the course of a year the company's revenue fell 24.1 percent, from EUR291 million ($450 million) to EUR221 million ($342 million). This was more apparent in its post-EBITA earnings of EUR107 million ($166 million) to EUR50 millions ($77 million). As a whole, Blizzard generated EUR192 million ($297 million) in revenues buy WOTLK Classic Gold in the first quarter, or approximately EUR64 millions (EUR99 million) per month.
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