Activision Blizzard Reports Q3 2019 Earnings - Call of Duty and World of Warcraft Outperform
Activision Blizzard reporting strong Q3 2019 earnings today with revenues coming in at $1.28B vs company guidance of $1.11B thanks to strong performance of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft (largely due to Classic's launch). In fact, Blizzard said in their earnings report that WoW Classic "Added record number of subscription plans in Q3" with the game "sustaining strong engagement into Q4". "WoW Classic led to the biggest quarterly increase to subscriptions plans in franchise history, in both West and East." Blizzard's monthly active users company wide came in at 33M:
Activision monthly active users were also strong at 36M:
King Digital (maker of the popular Candy Crush Saga games) had 247M monthly active users. Revenue and profits between all 3 divisions once again strongly favored King Digital, showing the strength of mobile gaming:
