Vivendi's Revenues up 35 Percent 25

Posted by Zonk on Monday January 30, 2006 @03:49PM from the can't-imagine-why dept.

Vivendi Universal Games, the publisher for games from Blizzard Entertainment and Valve Software, posted high revenues for last year. The company showed an increase of almost 35% over 2004. From the article: "Vivendi also reported its revenues for the fourth quarter of 2005, VU Games' revenue actually dropped from 2004, down 7 percent from 264 million euros ($319 million) to 245 million euros ($296 million). The company blamed the slide on 'an exceptional quarter in 2004,' in which Half-Life 2 and World of Warcraft both debuted." Update: 01/30 21:12 GMT by Z : It helps if I pay attention to what I'm typing.

Vivendi's Revenues up 35 Percent

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Not owned... (Score:4, Informative)

by avalys ( 221114 ) writes: on Monday January 30, 2006 @03:52PM (#14601348)

Valve is not owned by Vivendi. They do have a (somewhat rocky) business relationship: Vivendi has published most of Valve's games. But Valve is independent.

Blizzard, on the other hand, is a subsidiary of Vivendi.

- Re:Not owned... (Score:3, Informative)
  
  by VGPowerlord ( 621254 ) writes:
  
  Technically, wasn't it Sierra that published most of Valve's games, back before they were swallowed by Vivendi?
  - Re:Not owned... (Score:2)
    
    by ToasterofDOOM ( 878240 ) writes:
    
    I remember some great Sierra games, but not from Valve I think. The Homeworld series was (and arguably still is) one of the best RTS series ever.
    - Re:Not owned... (Score:2)
      
      by damsa ( 840364 ) writes:
      
      Sierra published Counter Strike. I remember Sierra logo first then the Valve logo second.
      - Re:Not owned... (Score:1)
        
        by KDR_11k ( 778916 ) writes:
        
        Sierra published Half-Life itself.
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    by JimmehAH ( 817552 ) writes:
    
    They don't have an unstable business relationship with them anymore. EA are now Valve's publishers. Even for the back catalogue.
    They're still independent so no need to worry about interference from EA.
Valve isn't owned by Vivendi (Score:4, Informative)

by Tankko ( 911999 ) writes: on Monday January 30, 2006 @04:05PM (#14601496)

>> Vivendi Universal Games, owner of companies such as Blizzard Entertainment and Valve Software

Valve isn't owned by Vivendi. How can you miss something that blatant. Gads! It's starting to feel more like digg around here every day.

Heh (Score:3, Funny)

by JavaLord ( 680960 ) writes: on Monday January 30, 2006 @04:10PM (#14601551) Journal

Valve Software, posted high revenues for last year. The company showed an increase of almost 35% over 2004

Maybe with all that money they can buy a D+D book and figure out what the difference between the paladin class, and cleric class is.

- Re:Heh (Score:1)
  
  by holySherm ( 916265 ) writes:
  
  ha, i can't even get away from the paladin whining on slashdot...
  
  granted I'm also one of them who contributes to it. Melee hybrid...psshhh
Personally I'd like to see them go under... (Score:4, Interesting)

by haplo21112 ( 184264 ) writes: <haplo AT epithna DOT com> on Monday January 30, 2006 @04:17PM (#14601622) Homepage

Seriously this company has runined some the greatest game companies that have ever existed. The fact that they have not managed to destroy Blizzard is some sort of miracle fluke. Of course Blizzard of late seems to have devolved into the house of Warcraft. They have not cranked out something new in serveral years. WoW is great and all, but it is just an inflated retread of Warcraft concepts.

How about Starcraft 2. Or Diablo3 or something completely NEW! Has all the inovative talent filtered away?

- Re:Personally I'd like to see them go under... (Score:1, Informative)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  Blizzard North which created the Diablo/Starcraft series has been dissolved. Bill Roper and many of the other talents left to start their own companies or work with others (NCSofts Guild Wars has people from Bliz North).
  - - Re:BUT... (Score:2)
      
      by dhakbar ( 783117 ) writes:
      
      I don't know why you seem to think that all online gaming requires any payment beyond the original purchase of the game. In addition, I don't see why you feel that the industry should cater to you.
      
      Oh yeah, because you are a whiner.
    - Re:BUT... (Score:1)
      
      by voidphoenix ( 710468 ) writes:
      
      Technically, Guild Wars isn't an MMORPG. It's a CORPG (competitive online RPG). You might think there's no difference, but there is. In Guild Wars, all the combat maps accomodate one party of 8 players per instance. The PvP maps take 2 teams of 8, 16 people total. The only parts of GW where you have anything approaching MM interaction are the towns, which are essentially chat/trade rooms, and PvP observer mode, also basically a chat channel.
  - Blizzard North did not do Starcraft (Score:2)
    
    by AHumbleOpinion ( 546848 ) writes:
    
    Blizzard North did not do Starcraft, the folks in Southern California did that.
  - Re:Personally I'd like to see them go under... (Score:2)
    
    by narfbot ( 515956 ) writes:
    
    Arena.net, the makers of Guild Wars, was started by the three main programmers of Blizzard South. They did not originate from Blizzard North. Now they may have hired some Ex-Blizz North guys after they were dissolved, I don't know.
- Re:Personally I'd like to see them go under... (Score:1)
  
  by Dmac1985 ( 887678 ) writes:
  
  How the hell is Starcraft 2 new?
  - Re:Personally I'd like to see them go under... (Score:1)
    
    by Schitzoflink ( 949390 ) writes:
    
    The fact that it isn't out yet would make it new once they created it...
- Re:Personally I'd like to see them go under... (Score:1)
  
  by MishgoDog ( 909105 ) writes:
  
  Well.... there is Starcraft Ghost... However they also did manage to spawn off a number of (potentially) very interesting game houses when most of their staff quit in one mass exodus! flagshipstudios.com - Hellgate:London is one game I'm REALLY looking forward to! And of course a number of the Guild Wars guys are from Blizzard. P.S. WoW is a good game - not perfect, but no MMORPG (especially) is going to please everyone, so they're not a total loss. But I just kicked my WoW addiction! I've been clean for
  - Re:Personally I'd like to see them go under... (Score:1)
    
    by Schitzoflink ( 949390 ) writes:
    
    Will Ghost ever come out? And when it does...how much of a run and gun shooter will it be...will all the initial stealth be cut out?
    
    The only problem with the splintering of old good game studios is that the new studios don't have the same level of talent and even if they do they are now owned by some parent company who has no idea how to make decent games. I remember when games were at least 25 hours GP...now there are games that are listed as 15 hour games.../end rant
- Re:Personally I'd like to see them go under... (Score:2)
  
  by JavaLord ( 680960 ) writes:
  
  or something completely NEW!
  
  Diablocraft?
- Re:Personally I'd like to see them go under... (Score:1)
  
  by Coltman ( 623132 ) writes:
  
  As an observation, yes all their talent has filtered away. They can be found at ArenaNet.
  
  http://www.arena.net/about/team.html [arena.net]
  
  The way I see it, Guild Wars has the gameplay I would have expected for a Diablo 3.
VU killed of Dynamix and Papyrus (Score:1)

by Rifter13 ( 773076 ) writes:

They have even destroyed the once great Sierra name. VU has hurt the gaming market for many years. They have bought out some of the best game makers, and then destroyed them through layoffs and "restructuring".
*Claps* (Score:2)

by SphericalCrusher ( 739397 ) writes:

And they wanted to get rid of their games section...

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Blizzard North did not do Starcraft (Score:2)

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