Net revenue and net bookings were both down year-over-year at Activision Blizzard, but the company says that the quarter still outperformed its expectations.<\/p>\n
Net revenue for Q2 2019 came in at $1.396 billion overall, down from last year\u2019s $1.641 billion but still above the $1.315 billion prediction it previously published for this quarter. Overall, $1.09 billion of that net revenue came from digital sources.<\/p>\n
In its Q2 report, Activision Blizzard calls out some of its flagship franchises at Activision, Blizzard, and King alike for year-over-year or quarter-over-quarter boosts in engagement and active user. Likewise the money those players spent on in-game transactions made up a significant portion of the company\u2019s earnings.<\/p>\n
Activision Blizzard as a whole saw $800 million in net bookings from in-game transactions, while Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 <\/em>specifically saw a year-over-year increase in net bookings from in-game items when compared against its predecessor, Call of Duty: WWII<\/em>.<\/p>\n King\u2019s Candy Crush<\/em> franchise specifically continues to grow in terms of monthly active users year-over-year, and was responsible for 258 million of Activision Blizzard\u2019s entire 327 million monthly active users this quarter.<\/p>\n Just at Blizzard, Hearthstone<\/em> MAUs are up quarter-over-quarter and World of Warcraft <\/em>subscribers have increased since May following announcements of new content, while Overwatch<\/em> monthly active users remained \u201crelatively stable\u201d quarter-over-quarter.<\/p>\n Taking a closer look at those earlier net revenue figures, actual product sales only accounted for $359 million net revenue for the quarter. Other revenue sources, which Activision Blizzard lists as World of Warcraft<\/em> subscriptions, licensing royalties, downloadable content, microtransactions, and other miscellaneous revenues were responsible for the remaining $1.037 billion of this quarter\u2019s net revenue.<\/p>\n After subtracting costs, expenses, and tax expense, net income comes in at $328 million for the quarter, and at $774 million for the first half of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Net revenue and net bookings were both down year-over-year at Activision Blizzard, but the company says that the quarter still outperformed its expectations. Net revenue for Q2 2019 came in at $1.396 billion overall, down from last year\u2019s $1.641 billion but still above the $1.315 billion prediction it previously published for this quarter. Overall, $1.09 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}