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>‘Warcraft’ Hits $145 Million in China in Four Days
>Worldwide total of $277 million
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni59930885?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2494921022&pf_rd_r=0HZ13ZY96FME7G3TEKTH&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_nw_tp1
Warcraft II when?
>>70746151
160M (production) + 110M (marketing) = 270M
270M x 2.5 = 675 million
Warcraft needs to make at least 675 million for a sure bet sequel.
It's never going to happen.
CAPESHIT IS FUCKING FINISHED
>>70746321
Why? The movie isn't even out here yet.
>>70746151
I want a Director's Cut first.
PLEASE BASED DUNCAN
>>70746151
>>70746327
If capeshit is like early industrialization, video game movies are the Ford assembly line.
Instead of just having already made characters with personalities and flaws, you have already made characters as well as a plethora of story lines to follow. It's an easy money maker.
>>70746359
It came out a day ago in US if I am correct.
Not sure if UK or AUS has it yet
>>70746359
Because the movie will struggle to even make it past 400 million, let alone 600 million for a sure movie.
>>70746321
Nice asspull number.
>>70746151
>Warcraft II when?
If it bombs in the US then hopefully never.
>>70746151
BIGGER THAN AVATAR
>>70746397
110m marketing according to deadline. Warcraft movie is fucked. They won't be able to make twice of 270m.
>>70746418
>implying the movie won't cause a mass surge of subscriptions to WoW
They don't give a shit about a sequel, they're just trying to bring players back to their dying game.
>>70746151
>Warcraft II when?
Soon.
>>70746151
>$145 million in China
>$99 million world wide
What the hell? That sucks sadly
>>70746473
>They don't give a shit about a sequel, they're just trying to bring players back to their dying game.
That's not true.
Metzen and Jones clearly wants to make a Warcraft trilogy. The movie spends its entire time setting up for potential sequels.
It looks like they won't make it. There's a reason why Pacific Rim 2 is taking so long. If Warcraft does those numbers, we'll experience another development hell, making it a failure.
>>70746524
Duncan will still make a sequel.
There was an article last year where he hoped to make a trilogy.
I havent seen the movie yet but I hear it ends on an open note not leaving everyone fully satisfied.
>>70746321
The movie needs to make $500 million to make a profit retard.
Stop pulling numbers out of your ass
>China
do people not realize the studios get much less money from foreign box offices, especially ones with heavy amounts of regulation like China?
Effectively this movie has only made like $150 mil total.
>>70746569
Which is why people need to pay to go see it! DO NOT DOWNLOAD.
Even if this one is mediocore: if this and Assassin's Creed make a profit: it means hope for more video game movies and less capeshit and reboots.
/tv/ will be wrong, AGAIN, when it turns out the movie is very successful. It won't be Titanic and Avatar successful, but it will make its budget back and some more. A bunch of you stupid assholes truly believed, and still believe, that The Force Awakens was the flop of the century.
>>70746627
>it means hope for more video game movies and less capeshit and reboots.
Great argument.
It's like saying we should give people AIDS so we'll have less cancer.
Fuck you.
>>70746647
But its true: if video game movies break more than even than we will see less reboots
>>70746647
Please fuck off
>>70746569
A movie needs to make back 2.5 times its budget for a sure sequel. Looks like it's not gonna happen with Warcraft, especially with 110M marketing.
>>70746670
But anon, both are shit
I don't want to see either
>>70746151
film is complete shit. Looks like a childrens film from 2011
>>70746553
Well it is somewhat of an end but clearly sets up for a sequal.
>>70746151
>Warcraft II when?
1995
>>70746714
>A movie needs to make back 2.5 times its budget for a sure sequel.
No it doesn't. Sequels almost always makes more money and Warcraft is a merchandise franchise as well which means an even bigger profit.
Once again, stop talking out of your ass.
Why are the Chinese suddenly going to the movies en masse?
>>70746321
All it needs to do is raise subscription rates for WoW and there will be a sequel.
>>70746383
No capeshit is the Ford assembly lines. Comics are literally storyboards.
Video games has never really put emphasis on story with hacks like Chris Mezten working for Blizzard.
>>707466>>70746748
Forget 2.5 times, looks like Warcraft won't even be able to make twice of its budget.
270 x 2 = 540 million.
It ain't happening. Warcraft will most likely end in the 400 million range.
>>70746758
they aren't, you're just now noticing it.
I haven't played the Warcraft games and I enjoyed the Warcraft movie and would go see a sequel. I don't watch cape, last one I saw some time ago made me disgusted. Never gonna watch again.
>>70746741
HAHAHA YOU FUNNY :D xD
>>70746791
So was Warcraft good as a movie?
>>70746759
There will be an immense backlash if they did that.
>>70746788
>I now hear that the appropriate break-even for Warcraft given its P&A of $110M and $160M production cost is around $500M at the global B.O., not $400M or $450M.
http://deadline.com/2016/06/warcraft-conjuring-2-now-you-see-me-2-weekend-box-office-1201770307/
Keep being retarded
>>70746835
Lets say my expectations were met. I expected cool shit, great cgi and badass fights.
>>70746714
I thought the *2.5 thing included an estimate of marketing costs.
so it should be 160*2.5=400, not (160+110)*2.5=675
>>70746855
it won't make 500 million.
since fucking when movies need to make half of billion to secure a sequel?
Friendly reminder that literally every """fan""" of the Warcraft flick who has been defending it on /tv/ comes from/also posts at:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/forums/315-General-Off-Topic
Some of the current issues they are """""""discussing""""""":
>Is murder justified when the victim is completely evil?
>Mass Shooting at Florida Gay Bar
>22 year old arrested in Qatar because of being raped
>Why does Donald Trump hate veterans?
>82% of Egyptian Woman Have Had Genitals Mutilated
These are genuinely just a handful of random threads I plucked from the top 10-20 most recent posts. There is also a huge thread with the same neckie WoW players defending Warcraft in their hugbox.
It is honestly some of the most amusing reading you will ever do, and goes a LONG way towards explaining why the Blizzdrones on /tv/ over the past couple of weeks have seemed so mentally ill. `
>>70746913
yeah.
>Even if it collapses around the world from here on out (and there are plenty of markets in which it hasn’t opened), it’s tough to see a worldwide total lower than twice the production budget ($320m) or maybe even $400m (2.5x the budget, which is when everyone starts breathing again).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/06/10/box-office-warcraft-nabs-3-1m-thursday/
>>70747013
To be fair anyone still playing WoW has to have major autism or retardation. It's a self selecting group.
>>70746924
We'll see.
Personally I think it will. It will make $250million+ in China
movie was ok. cool fighting scenes and shit. Critics were too harsh i believe. Some bits need fixing but I would definitely go to a sequel.
>>70747013
Friendly reminder that literally every """"poster"""" on /tv/ comes from/also posts reddit.
>>70746849
Raise the rate of people subscribing, not the cost of subscribing.
Cool so it might gross enough to get a sequel, but you are all forgetting the elephant in the room:
Will the sequel actually be good?
isn't this what you fatfucks were hoping for?
This is why high budget non-disney/comic movies and cinema as a whole is dying.
Retarded fucking neckbeards
Reminder that we'll never get undead because skeletons are banned in china
>>70747163
reminder that this meme needs to end
>>70746151
>Warcraft II when?
In 1995.
>Implying Blizzard couldn't fund the next 10 movies directly out of their lunch money if they wanted to...
>>70747281
is overwatch FTP?
>>70746394
It opened here in the UK last week
>>70746151
I fucking LOVE it! The contrarians on /tv/ are getting BLOWN the fuck out yet again. This movie will make $750 million gross, you can screen cap this shit! Based Duncan has done it again and there is some SERIOUS buzz being generated for this beast.
>>70747356
KEK no.
It's $40/$60. For a game that has 5-6 hours content, no offline/PVE modes and only 3 (slightly different) PVP game modes.
All of this and it's still being rated 10/10 game of the year by Blizzdrones. This shows how their opinions on anything Blizzard related can't be trusted.
>>70747231
>meme
>corpses in WoW replaced with tombstones
>>70747429
> $750 million gross
HAHAHAHAHAHA NO
It'll be lucky to even make it to 500 million.
Warcraft is ending in the 400 million range.
>>70746647
>It's like saying we should give people AIDS so we'll have less cancer.
I may have kek'd.
>>70747450
5-6 hours of content is being generous tbqh
>>70746620
a chink company bankrolled half the movie cost, the film was designed for the chinese market. Warcraft is a chinese movie using a US video game. It will breakeven in china and the money from abroad will be the profits.
>>70747458
https://www.techinasia.com/china-doesnt-censor-skeletons-the-truth-about-game-censorship-in-the-middle-kingdom
>>70747429
How do you figure? Its been falling steadily in china (like every other market) and DOA in the US.
Blizzard has always been all about throwing out the biggest number they could get away with and acting like it means something. This is no different.
>>70747462
We SHALL see, contrarian. :^)
This puppy is going straight to the top of the box office leaderboards. You can COUNT on it!
>>70746758
They always have, it just didn't really matter before because Hollywood was making ok movies that did well over here. Now that people are noticing that so much of Hollywood's products are trash, they're relying a lot more on overseas revenues.
>>70747478
>Warcraft is a chinese movie using a US video game.
Suddenly the horrid live action sequences make sense. Chinks can't hear bad acting.
>>70747501
it couldn't even beat a shitty horror movie for retards in the US
Putting it at 350 million to 450 million worldwide gross.
>>70746151
China is like 25c on the dollar dude, it doesn't help Universal much.
Domestic haul is shit.
>>70747450
How dare you speak ill of a game that is basically TF2 without the fun
>>70747565
TF2 was shit
>>70747540
yeah, the movie makers decided to focus on china because 1 in 2 WoW users are chinese and the subscription base there is still growing (though slowly) where as it's declining in America.
Film will definitely come under expectations in America but it's still on course abroad.
>>70747613
*tips fedora*
>>70747484
>china doesn't censor skeletons
>well actually they do
>but not all the time
>heres the laws why they censor skeletons
...
>>70747642
it really was
quake and unreal tournament days were better
Does anyone actually know real numbers (appreciate it would be an average) of what % of box office take goes to the studios for Chinese sales vs North American sales?
>>70747450
Modern Blizzard is very strange in that it's almost a cult at this point.
It attracts players and then somehow traps them to the point where they never play anything that isn't released by Blizzard, or even know those games exist. By doing this, Blizzard ensures that every game they release will get rated 10/10 Game of the Year by Blizzdrones, because they never venture outside of their Battle.net hugbox to play any of the competition.
I genuinely feel sorry for these people. There are so many great fucking games being released in recent times, and these guys are content spending $6000 on a gaming PC just to play Hearthstone and the latest expansion of World of Warcraft.
>>70747672
TF2 remained popular for ages because it's fun for us casuals.
>>70747640
>1 in 2 WoW users are chinese
1 in 2 WoW SUBSCRIPTIONS are chinese. Because of how chinese accounts are set up (pay-per-hour, free to open, never close, free hours every month) there's no reason to have multiple characters on a single account.
Blizzard has never, once, in the history of WoW, released anything close to an estimate of concurrent users.
>>70747672
They were better, but Quake and UT are a different kind of shooter to TF2...
This is why Overwatch is being compared to TF2 instead of Quake/UT or CS:GO.
Blizzdrones really are fucking clueless.
>>70747722
>Blizzard has never, once, in the history of WoW, released anything close to an estimate of concurrent users.
Except they did for Battle.net 1.0. It told you how many users were online every time you joined a channel.
>>70747707
Give me great fucking games recently released.
>>70747771
Are you fucking kidding?
2015 was the best year for video games in history.
>>70747815
>still doesn't name anything
>>70747707
That's because Blizzard is basically the only company setting the standard. Everyone else is literally trying to make inferior ripoffs so people go what's safe. How many countless blatant WoW rip-off MMOs and MOBA ripoffs have failed in the last 5 years?
>>70747880
The fact you even had to ask the question proves my point, lad. If you want to break the cult's grip, you're going to have to do it yourself.
Back to Overtrash.
>>70747771
If we're talking the last year Bloodborne was pretty cool
>>70747919
gr8 b8 m8
>>70747913
Setting the standard in and for what?
>>70747913
This is some next level delusion.
Blizzard's last 2 releases have been completely derivative copies of previously established games/genres.
>>70746321
>Warcraft needs to make at least 675 million for a sure bet sequel.
lmao, you have no idea how movie production works, do you?
>>70747919
>STILL deflecting because he can't name anything
>>70747707
>There are so many great fucking games being released in recent times,
examples? they are all garbage, mostly, including new blizzard games.
>>70747765
Which they disabled when there were more people on battle.net1.0 than 2.0.
But wow was never on battle.net so why are you even bringing that up?
>>70747986
I was excluding Overwatch, no one thinks Blizzard invented FPS. Yeah, Hearthstone is basically MTG but can you name an actual computer game that has done it? Much less successfully?
>>70747815
For undertale fags maybe.
>>70747921
Console, dropped
>>70748065
Done what?
>>70748065
No, I was talking about Heroes of the Storm, don't go fucking ignoring that.
Hearthstone is the one Blizzard game in modern times that is actually inspired.
>>70747986
every single one of blizzard's games have been derivative copies of previously established games/genres.
>>70748081
>create an electronic card game
>inspired
>>70748065
I played an online version of MtG for a while. Was pretty cool. While it was free money for wizards of the coast, it didn't exactly set the world on fire, because they kept the same pricing scheme as they did for physical cards.
>>70747700
its different for every company. Its a lot higher in this case because legendary is owned by china.
>>70748095
yes, it's almost like there's this insane business model that a company known for producing something successful keeps producing the same type of thing. Do you see successful pizza chains suddenly decide they're going to do Chinese food?
>145 million in four days in china
wait, hold on
wasn't it 132 million yesterday? meaning it made less than 13 million? On a saturday?
>>70748217
>Do you see successful pizza chains suddenly decide they're going to do Chinese food?
I don't browse /ck/ so don't know for sure, but maybe anonymous shills attempt to force the "inspired, original" angle there as well
>>70748217
Did you even read the post it was replying to, and the one before that, before sperging out in defence of glorious Blizzard, drone?
That line of discussion was in response to someone claiming that "everyone else besides Blizzard" is making rip-offs and derivative copies of other games rather than being original.
>>70748081
lol you make it sound like other companies are creating new genres. It's 2016. Every game is a derivative of something. People might make new twists, but nothing hasn't been done before really.
>>70748217
Not chinese food specifically, but the major pizza chains in my country have branched out over the years and now focus on pasta and grilled goods like chicken wings, nuggets etc.
>>70748246
Warcraft is dropping, son.
>>70748307
>everything is derivative of something
>this, of course, means blizzard is fresh and original
i don't even
>>70748349
He's not defending blizzard anon. He's pointing out the idiocy and hypocrisy the other anon is spouting
>>70748296
literally no one claimed that. But keep backpedaling. Blizzard is just the most successful at their niche. If anything, Overwatch is the first fundamentally unoriginal genre (that they didn't either invent or do unequivocally the best) that they've entered.
>>70747501
60% drop in China.
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
WARCRAFT IS FINISHED. IT'LL BE LUCKY IF IT EVEN MAKES IT TO 400 MILLION.
FUCKING KEKE.
>>70748313
I'm just waiting for when they start stuffing crusts with fried chicken.
>>70748369
how can you claim blizzard has a "niche" when they've made a game of every possible genre?
>>70748376
It'll happen when they figure out how to keep the chicken moist and not overcooked in the crust.
>>70748369
You're not one of these idiots that believes Blizzard invented the modern-day MOBA due to the original Defence of the Ancients mod, are you?
If not, there's another you can add to your list.
>>70748396
>every possible genre
They've made a SIM? a fighting game like Mortal Kombat? A sidescroller like Mario? Sports games?
>>70748368
My mistake. I've seen blizzdrones spawn that exact argument from this line of debate.
>pay off critics so your competition has a shitty rotten tomato score
>people end up not caring for reviews when its a source material they love
>spending all that money on critics
>competitor still does well
LAFFIN. HOW PATHETIC CAN DISNEY BE!?
>>70748413
people that didn't start playing 5 games ago do, yes. Considering it was literally a Blizzard custom map using blizzard IP.
The only positive to Blizzard IMO is the fact they haven't completely sold-out and changed from their initial inceptionkeyword being completely.. Look at Bungie or Bioware for sellout companies that are completely different to their early years
>>70748430
Blackthorne is sidescroller but I think it's more metroidvania than mario.
>>70748430
>A sidescroller like Mario?
Blackthorne and lost vikings
They're probably far enough up their own ass to think their dota-clone is a fightan gaem.
You got me on sim and sports games though. But that's slim pickins.
>>70746321
>Not knowing about the 20% tax return
160*0.8+110=238m
>>70748413
aeon of strife is older, and that was from starcraft
>>70748476
it kind of has happened though. Blizzard turned pretty corporate once they were bought by Activision. That's when WoW started turning really gimmicky with WoW Pokemon bullshit, and now trying to enter the safe money market of FPS after failing in a completely different genre (Overwatch was originally supposed to be another MMO).
>>70748517
same guy and wasn't nearly as popular.
>>70748498
>>70748500
>thinks anyone alive played those games
Literally no one would even know what LV is if blizz didn't constantly shove it down people's throats with references/appearances in their current games.
>>70748519
overwatch was originally supposed to be destiny.
>>70748541
>they never make sidescroller!
>uh, yea, they made two
>LOL WHAT WHO CARES ON ONE PLAYED THOSE LOL
brilliant
>>70748556
no, it wasn't. It was called Titan and it was supposed to be an MMO. They lost faith and scrapped it but kept some of the futuristic elements that turned into the story/character premise for Overwatch, but a completely different genre.
>>70746375
it's confirmed re: duncan's twitter
>>70748541
I played Lost Vikings as a kid.
>>70748541
When the fuck did I die?
Blackthorne is my favorite Blizz game and I still have the SNES cartridge so bite me.
>>70748593
The Titan cancellation didn't happen till activision negotiated to publish destiny. They were similar enough that activision felt they would be in competition. So activision canceled titan.
>>70748580
>talking about a company cornering market(s)
>use irrelevant games from 25+ years ago that maybe 0.5% of their market has ever played
not sure if stupid or just autistic
>>70748246
>implying people in China don't work on saturdays
>>70748586
>500 to break even
>Implying it had a 340m marketing budget
>>70747771
not him, but Witcher 3 was the best thing since Morrowind
>>70748628
That's what I'm asking. do china even have a weekend?
Fucking /v/ermins are ruining this board
>>70748638
You're a fucking moron.
>>70748626
no, man. Titan was basically confirmed as an MMO almost from inception back in 2007 or 08. It didn't get cancelled until 7 years later.
>>70748638
theaters take at least half the gross, yo.
>>70748500
>Blackthorne and lost vikings
fucking synergy and synapse my nigga
>>70748671
You seem to be missing something basic about this particular line of conversation.
>>70748627
>jumping in to bat for blizzard without knowing their entire catalogue so your arguments have merit
>damage control when called out on being wrong
I think you're slightly touched
>>70748701
what, that you're being revisionist about my original point that they were different genres while you were insisting Overwatch/Titan was always an FPS?
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2010161-Are-you-surprised-how-good-the-warcraft-movie-is-doing?
>>70746321
At best the movie will make 100 million domestic, that means it needs to make like 1 billion world wide to make a profit, since foreign box office % is tiny
>>70748707
>can't follow the logic of the actual argument
>spergs because his misses the point about the fact that no one gave a shit about Blizzard when they had those games
If you don't understand how wrong of a false equivalency that is, then you're just an idiot. It's like saying Nintendo has the market in playing card games because they made one in 1975.
>>70748721
titan was originally a sci-fi MMO, which meant guns, which meant shooter.
Destiny was billed as a sci-fi MMO shooter.
What I'm saying is when activision got the bungie publishing deal, they canceled titan because they felt there was overlap and it was going nowhere.
Then when destiny failed hilariously, activision had blizzard scrape together the pieces for a tf2 clone.
>>70747097
>>70747097
Blizzdrones are like DCucks
They dont care about quality as long as they get more shit to eat
>>70746924
ur an idiot
>>70748765
The original assertion is that it is preposterous to say blizzard has any sort of "niche" when they've invaded every niche they could.
You named a couple niches they hadn't invaded and a couple they had. Examples of their forays into the latter were named.
You are now on full damage control after you were met half-way by someone with the decency to not bring up blizzard's attempts at "esports" in reference to the "sport" genre.
>>70748773
Even ignoring the fact that you think MMOs and FPS necessarily attract the same playerbase just because they're both Sci-Fi, your timeline is jumbled and directly contradicts Blizzard's own reports. If it happened as you said, why did it take SEVEN years? The development cycles between the two games weren't even close. Was Blizzard just sitting on its hands for 3-4 years to wait and see if they needed to cancel it?
>>70748855
>Was Blizzard just sitting on its hands for 3-4 years to wait and see if they needed to cancel it?
Not him, but yes, more or less.
They had more important things to focus on. Titan was a side project.
>>70748843
>blizzard has any sort of "niche" when they've invaded every niche they could.
but this was patently proven wrong. I'll repeat, it, where are their fighting games? sports? sims? no one plays Blizzard games because they made LV 30 years ago and it was irrelevant. That's hardly "invading a niche", and it's a false equivalency.
>>70748886
so Activision needed 3-4 years to decide if two sci-fi games of different genres were too similar? Couldn't they have just altered the production of one during that time?
>>70748855
titan development started before the actiblizz merger (buyout). Activision is the controlling entity in that "merger." activision jumped at the chance for some bungie money, but didn't want to fund two similar (on paper) projects that could possibly compete with one another.
>>70748912
So because blizzard hasn't invaded niches where there isn't a ton of casual money to be made (that isn't already being made), they have a niche? That is composed of RTS, FPS, RPG, MMO, and card game?
>>70748799
>Read a review on a polish imdb-like site
>OMFG MASTERPIECE 10/10 MOVIE
>check his other reviews
>He also gave 10/10 MASTERPIECE to Batman vs Superman
You have no idea how right you are
>>70748993
>So because blizzard hasn't invaded niches where there isn't a ton of casual money
Now who's backpedaling? B-but I thought they invaded every niche! That was the entire premise of your argument.
>>70749019
>they could.
:^)
>>70749019
I think you're stuck quibbling over a non-point in desperation to salvage a win after sayings something as monstrously stupid as "blizzard is niche."
>>70748833
kek
Warcraft is going to make 350 million to 450 million worldwide.
China has already played its cards and it's dropping 60% there on a fucking Saturday. I don't see how it can make 250 million over the next weeks.
wow you know what's more pathetic than blizzdrones? anti-blizzdrones
literally the sjws of having fun
>>70749087
i-it hasn't opening in australia yet!
>>70749093
>wow you know what's more pathetic than blizzdrones?
There's nothing more pathetic than blizzdrones.
Try again, blizzdrone.
>>70749093
shill harder faggot
>>70749093
>wow you know what's more pathetic than blizzdrones?
There's nothing.
>>70749019
No it wasn't.
One anon claimed a thing, then was informed they were wrong, which resulted in all this damage control and moving goalposts.
If you're going to attempt to defend something, have all the facts before you open your mouth and make a fool of yourself.
Instead of owning the fact you're partially wrong, you've gone into overdrive damage control and it doesn't help anyone or the argument.
Blizzard are unoriginal but experts at adding a personal touch to genres they expand into. This entire argument stems from the sole fact people can't comprehend this fact and insist that blizzard are pioneers in the gaming industry.
>>70749116
>>70749118
>>70749127
>>70749093
>wow you know what's more pathetic than blizzdrones?
Nothing, WoW faggots are the most pathetic cucks
There are still people that have been playing it since it came out, even though they only play it for a few months a year they are still paying to keep their accounts
There are people that have spend over $8k on WoW, a game that is barely a game, and continue to buy expansions and pay subscription fees to mash 1-9 on their keyboard and grind the same dungeons 1000 times
>>70746321
>it's a "guy without a job pretends to know Hollywood accounting" episode
>>70746151
Based review coming through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CamTk1pOxGM
>Can someone please tell me where to find a high resolution of the poster on the bottom right? I can't find it anywhere
Make it less obvious you're underage memers, /v/eddit. Its also obvious that you all came from twitch recently. Le pepe le cuck xD haHA. Fucking idiots.
>>70749211
The funniest part about it is that these people (many of which are no doubt the drones in this thread) will throw the $8000 away, and likely their childhood/adolescence, and still willingly go in to bat for Blizzard when some anonymous meanies make fun of them on the internet.
Unlike paid Marvel/Disney shills, Blizzdrones are paying Blizzard $15 a month to spend their days mindlessly defending them on the internet.
Blizzard must have some powerful fucking kool-aid.
>>70749211
>>70749333
fucking wow, brings a whole new meaning to the name WoW>8k
holy fucking shit
>>70749211
Wait, can you itemise this $8000?
>>70749333
>blizzdrone means he plays World of Warcraft
I've only ever spent money on Warcraft 2 and 3 pham
>>70748596
Based Duncan giving more vidya kino
>>70749677
the hero we need
Can someone tell me how long the Dwarves are in this? Do they just get a quick cameo?
>>70749602
hes probably going by the monthly subscription across the lifetime of wow, the cost of each of the expansions, and one of each of the cashshop items.
>>70746151
>China loves shitty movies.
Who would have thought?
>>70747815
>2015 was the best year for video games in history.
1999 will always be the best year for video games.
>>70749749
some dwarf faggot says like two lines at the beginning and that's it
>>70749749
Like 2 minutes, max.
>>70748476
>completely
They sold out to Activision almost ten years ago.
>>70749810
awww ;_;
take that movie, change all the names so it's not warcraft anymore and can't appeal on the excitation of seeing elements of your game in the movie. Then what is left?
Not much. Let's be honest on a cinematic level it's shit. It's badly paced, badly filmed, with terrible actors and a completely retarded story.
>>70749870
They've actually sold out three times in all. Once to vivendi. AGAIN to vivendi. Then to activision.
The only person who's been at blizzard the entire time is chris metzen.
Chris metzen is a millionaire as a result.
>>70750053
Aren't Morhaime and Sigaty old timers too?
>>70750038
>take that movie and remove everything that makes it good
>it's shit durr hurr
>>70750220
If all that makes this movie good is "EPIC REFERENCES LMAO" you're literally admitting it's garbage.
>>70750220
>take that movie and remove everything that makes it good
Congrats you just made my point.
How the intro to all the characters should have went
>5-10minute LOTR-esque intro explaining sargeras and how he faught with aegwynn (don't mention medivh being posessed)
>explain how he chased velen n shit to draneor, then poisoned the orcs against them via fel with guldan
>explain how the world is dying from the fel/guldan and how one orc is having second thoughts
>go from there into first opening scene
>then have WARCRAFT TITLE
>Have khadgar as main character, start at the Dalaran with the Kirin tor and have him being sent on a mission to Stormwind to oversee the meeting with the Guardian on this matter
>Khadgar meets Llane, Llane explains how he, Lothar and Medivh have known each other since being young
>Lothar meets Khadgar, doesn't like him cause doesnt like the Kirin tor meddling with their relationship with the Guardian
>Have king send Lothar and Khadgar to see Guardian, introduce him in same way they did cause I felt that was fine
Put some half decent dialogue in there and don't have such shitty editing and it would be much better.They could have made a better inclusion of the dwarves by having them deny aid to the conflict but supply them with the new tech. Oh and they never to go fucking Goldshire cause that's fucking stupid.
>>70750378
>>70750038
same can be said for lotr and any fucking adaption you retarded nigger
>>70750073
always forget about morhaim
I also always forget hes a goddamn billionaire holy fuck.
sigaty isn't a founder though.
I guess there is some modicum of justice in the world if morhaime is worth 200 times more than metzen, though.
>>70750566
LotR is a good movie.
>>70750566
lotr with all the names changed would still be a fantastic technical achievement.
Whereas warcraft was only identifiable as a blizzard property from names.
Can someone please explain to me where this 500m+ figure that the movie 'needs' is coming from?
It seems absolutely absurd that the many companies and studios that backed warcraft all agreed to invest so much capital into a videogame movie based on a franchise past its prime with no A-list actors. This doesn't seem like a decision multimillionaire businesses would agree to do.
>>70750625
>there's some good in this world mr cumberpatch and it's worth fighting for
>we swear it on the sparkles
>i am zimbabwe of the white
>>70750691
The movie costed 160$ million or something.
And the cut you get from foreign is like 25% or some shit like this, and it's pretty much confirmed it'll flop at the domestic market.
>>70749873
they appear in the council scene and near the end too, but they don't speak
>>70750566
Nope. LOTR stands as a pretty damn solid movie on its own, without having to blink all the time to the viewer : HEY IT'S IN THE GAME! SEE WHAT I DID THERE? *WINK WINK*
>>70750718
Find me a more emotional scene in this pile of shit you call a good movie.
>>70750755
Char's Counterattack is still a piece of shit though even after watching the original, Zeta and ZZ.
>>70750766
>he got emotional in lotr
it's epic, an adventure, oh boohoo frodo lost a friend, jesus have a tissue you soppy faggot
>>70750841
If you didn't cry when everyone bends the knee to the hobbits at the end of RotK you're a fucking stonecold faggot and I wish a muslim would come to your house while you're sucking yourself to murder you.
>>70746321
500 million is probably the min they need to break even. That'll still be pretty hard seeing as they couldn't even break 26 million for their first domestic opening weekend. It'll only downhill from here.
>>70750264
>he doesn't like epic references
tips
>>70746473
You're a fucking retard. If they wanted to bring in gamers they would provide better game content. >Expecting movie goers to suddenly pick up gaming if they weren't already playing.
Lol
>>70748754
>since foreign box office % is tiny
Not in China it ain't. Legendary's owned by China now.
>>70746553
You're talking as if Duncan can magically make it happen. He ain't Micheal Bay. The movie has to break even for the studio to even consider letting him make a sequel.
>>70746327
Good riddance.
So, there's a 3D showing in a couple of hours. Only about two seats are taken. I've seen it twice. Should I see it again in 3D? Is it worth it?
>>70746627
Bwahahaha. You're the fuck that is wrong with casuals.
>go see it, even if it's mediocre.
Because we want more mediocrity right anon.
>>70751095
Actually, I thought it was better in 3D, I noticed alot of details in the cgi more. And I'm normally 2D only
>>70746759
That's as fucking retarded a thought process as I've read. Kill yourself
>>70747013
>Blizzdrones on /tv/ over the past couple of weeks have seemed so mentally ill. `
well yeah. some of them have played WoW for over a DECADE now. Imagine playing a game full-time and that's your entire life. You've played one game more than some people have been alive. Dedicated to playing one of the shittiest games ever made. And that's the average Warcraft fan. Seriously, I played the game but a lot of people couldn't quit playing it.
>>70746627
Fuck off. Blizzard jews can do without my shekels. Plus yeah giving money for a bad movie is sure a good idea to have even more bad movies next.
>>70750735
Cut from China is 25%, cut from Europe is like 40%.
>>70746952
Since it cost 160 million to make and another 110 million to market and theatre chains taking half the cut of all receipt you simpleton.
>>70751206
Yeah but for some reason they need 2x ROI to consider continuing the saga, or so I've read.
>>70746321
>Warcraft needs to make at least 675 million for a sure bet sequel.
>It's never going to happen
"it's never going to happen" was the main phrase used so far against this movie in every aspect: production, CGI, atmosphere, opening weekend, overall box office.
So far it blew all of those away, so you should stop saying it. Just say some unrealistic shit like "Warcraft 50 is never going to happen" and maybe someone will believe you.
>>70747281
Right because they don't mind losing money as long as it's all for the fans. Lol, you wow retards are fucking dumb as hell.
When can we expect sexy night elves and druids?
>>70747429
Lol, your delusion is epic.
>>70751302
warcraft 3 nigga
>>70751206
Not for Legendary Pictures who are Chinese owned, they get 50-60% from China.
>>70751386
You better start shilling everywhere that this movie is bees knees so we get a trilogy.
>>70748246
That's a 4 day estimate son.
>>70747405
Pve... Why the fuck would u want a pve shooter.
>>70748638
You're fucking stupid. They don't keep every dollar that comes in at the theatre tard. They only get half of it.
>>70750691
The fact that they put 160 million into the film already tells you that they expect big returns. Google films on the 150 plus million range and see their box office returns.
Why would anyone want to go watch this? have you no shame? do you realize how much of a manchild you must be to even consider going to see this?
Daily reminder that David Bowie died after watching this movie.
>>70751979
he also died after breathing air, should we all stop breathing?
>>70751049
Please remove the DC hat, Zack has suffered enough
>>70753757
Yes please.
>>70748799
Can confirm.
Source: I'm a Blizzdrone. Watched the movie, acknowledged that it is objectively bad, still want a sequel.
When can I get off this ride?
>>70751960
It's deeper than GOT
>>70754267
To be honest I'd like a sequel too.
I thought it was awful, but the shitposting is fun.
>>70754355
So are a lot of things
With Overwatch being a bigger success than even Blizzrd counted on it's about time WoW servers were shut down.
>>70754471
This, it's like if Transformersfags fought back/existed in the first place
>>70754520
my phone can run 20 wow realms without issue. warcraft is never shutting down.
Why the fuck did this movie take so long to make?
Why the fuck wasn't there a Warcraft movie during the Burning Crusade/Lich King days when subscribers were at their peak?
