WOW GOLD-Later Activision-Blizzard

I sit here at work and as I often do, my mind wonders here and there, to and fro. Often as I do, I think of the current MMO that I play: World of Warcraft. Now, over the last 2 years that I have paid attention to the actual numbers that Vivendi (and later Activision-Blizzard) have released, concerning their cash flow of World of Warcraft, in 2007, WoW grossed 1.1 Billion US Dollars and profited 520 Million US Dollars. In 2008, WoW pulled in roughly the same, another 1 Billion Dollars and profited roughly 500 Million US Dollars. Now, before you say anything else, this is money in their bank accounts, everyone has been paid, all is good in life about WoW Gold.

The initial development of WoW Gold was roughly 5 years to give us the original "Vanilla WoW". Now, one thing to remember that during this time, much content that was later released as "Content Patches", was essentially finished, but not polished. By polished, that would include models being finished/approved, events scripted/tested, boss loot finalized/approved, storylines & quests (if any) fleshed out/approved about WoW Gold.