Oct 20 2011, 08:58 PM, updated 15y ago
World of Warcraft makes inroads into SEA
by Justin Olivetti on Oct 19th 2011 11:30AM
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World of Warcraft may be slipping in the subscription department over this past year, but a recent deal may change all that. Blizzard has signed a contract with game publisher Asiasoft to bring the title to three additional countries: Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Blizzard's Paul Sams sees this move as a great way to expand ever further: "One of our top priorities is ensuring that our games are easily accessible to players all around the world. We are confident that as a leading online game services provider in southeast Asia, Asiasoft will help us reach many new players in this growing region."
Asia is one of WoW's biggest markets, with countries like China producing massive amounts of players who are into the game. Under the terms of this deal, Asiasoft will get the rights to publish World of Warcraft and all of its expansion packs to the three countries, as well as Starcraft II and Diablo III.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
More coverage: World of Warcraft official site
I copy from: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/19/wo...southeast-asia/
Blizzard's Paul Sams sees this move as a great way to expand ever further: "One of our top priorities is ensuring that our games are easily accessible to players all around the world. We are confident that as a leading online game services provider in southeast Asia, Asiasoft will help us reach many new players in this growing region."
Asia is one of WoW's biggest markets, with countries like China producing massive amounts of players who are into the game. Under the terms of this deal, Asiasoft will get the rights to publish World of Warcraft and all of its expansion packs to the three countries, as well as Starcraft II and Diablo III.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
More coverage: World of Warcraft official site
I copy from: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/19/wo...southeast-asia/
Well, after playing WOW US for 3 years and now WOW Taiwan for a year. I dont feel much about this news. This is like my dream come true since playing at US, SEA server, better latency and stuff.
But after when i make the switch to WOW TW and started the Coffeenottea English guild. I seriously dont see any more needs for a SEA server.
As many comments in the massively thread, it may do more harm than good.
Nevertheless, lets see how it goes.
This is definitely good news for us wower in Malaysia.
This post has been edited by hidden830726: Oct 20 2011, 08:59 PM
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