![]() Besides it would break the immersion and polish that Blizzard strives for in addition to competing directly with. So how about MS displaying adverts in-game in a hypothetical MSN WoW framework? Uh huh, Blizzard would get such a QQ storm that the forums would crash. Blizzard would not do this as it will compete with. Somehow Microsoft would want someone to pay for MSN support within WoW. Sure MSN users can avoid the adverts by using alternate IM clients (such as Pidgin, Trillian, Miranda IM, Kopete or Empathy for us Gnome users) or using 3d party plug-ins to nuke the adverts in the MSN Client (which breaks the MSN EULA/TOS) however those users who avoid adverts are a mere fraction of MSN users. Microsoft has nothing to gain from such an arrangement and actually, it's a strong disincentive. Where Microsoft does make money is in the advertising within the Messenger client.īy trying support 11+ million WoW players using the MSN protocol in the WoW client and using the MSN Messenger framework, Microsoft gets a bunch of users, additional strain on the network, however ZERO eyeballs for the adverts. Why? Microsoft does not make money from MSN Messenger itself, it's free to use for chatting and such. ![]() However on the MSN side, there would not be extra business for Microsoft even if many people "switched" to MSN Messenger. In addition, extra business for Microsoft? Microsoft does do business with Blizzard however it's in the form of Massive which supplies the banner adverts on Blizzard's sites. There are many people who simply do not like Microsoft and will not EVER sign up for a Live account. If that was the case, Xfire would be MUCH bigger than it is now, same with Playxpert and other similar applications. I seriously doubt that people would switch to MSN just be able to chat in WoW. But I think that's only a minor issue and it can be solved in a hundred ways or more. BUT if blizzard implements them, then maybe the user will have to choose wich program he wants to use, before he logs in. But if they only implement msn, then a lot of players would switch from the alternatives to msn and that means a huge business to msn. About the icq/aol problem: I don't think that blizzard would implement all of them if they wanted that.
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