Activision Blizzard First Quarter 2021 Financial Results - Intent to Hire 2000+ Developers Over Next Two Years

Blizzard Publié 04/05/2021 à 18:11 par Archimtiros

first-quarter financial results conference callconfirming the leaked June 1st release datemobile Warcraft and unannounced initiatives

Our employees continue to demonstrate exceptional performance under challenging circumstances. That relentless drive across our franchises produced strong first quarter results that were well ahead of expectations. Our continued overperformance enables us to raise our outlook for the full year.
- Bobby Kotick, Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard

HighlightsActivision - 150 million monthly active users, up from 128 million in Q4 2020

Call of Duty franchise MAUs grew over 40%, with even higher engagement growth setting a new quarterly record. In-game Net bookings on console and PC grew more than 60%. Sledgehammer Games is currently developing the next premium update.

Black Ops Cold War premium sales well above typical first quarter levels, due to the integration with Warzone.

Call of Duty Mobile March season concluding with its highest ever player investment, and April season now the top-grossing to date at this point after launch. Mobile launch in China has brought in tens of millions of new players, doubling worldwide player investment in the first quarter.

Blizzard Entertainment - 27 million monthly active users, down from 29 million in Q4 2020

World of Warcraft has seen strong reach, engagement, and participation in value added services, along with a particularly high number of new players joining the community for the first time, boosted by initiatives to enhance the onboarding experience.

Shadowlands continues to drive strong results following its record-setting release in November, with first quarter franchise net bookings growing sharply.

Diablo II: Resurrected saw very positive feedback during early testing in April and online viewership of the alpha test was the highest ever for a Blizzard game test. It is scheduled to release later this year.

Diablo Immortal entered its second phase of testing and is on track for global release later this year.

Hearthstone: Forged in the Barrens is on track to deliver expansion-over-expansion net bookings growth for the second consecutive release.

King - 258 million monthly active users, up from 240 million in Q4 2020

King In-game net bookings have remained strong into the second quarter, in the high-teens percentage Y/Y, accelerating further relative to Q4.

Candy Crush grew in-game net bookings very strongly Y/Y and was once again the top grossing franchise in the U.S. app stores.

Farm Heroes in-game net bookings also grew sharply Y/Y.

Crash Bandicoot: On the Run! has seen over 30M downloads to-date.

Q&A

Diablo 2: Resurrected is bringing a "true classic in gaming" into the modern gaming world, brining in both new fans and returning ones.

Diablo Immortal's goal is to broaden the audience by bringing an authentic version of Diablo to mobile.

Diablo 4 will enhance the art of the action RPG genre with the introduction of the next mainline title.

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