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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for hand-written delivery of previous leads! CTOnews.com November 12 Former Blizzard employee and now independent developer Jason Hall shared some interesting stories about his work in the gaming industry on YouTube, some of them eye-opening.

Hall said in one of his videos that he worked two years overtime on StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, which brought Blizzard less revenue than a mount in World of Warcraft. "A $15 microtrade horse makes more money than StarCraft II,"Hall said.

Hall did not specify which mount it was, but based on the Wings of Liberty's release date (July 27, 2010), it is likely to be the infamous Celestial Steed, also known as the Shining Pony, launched in April 2010.

The mount was priced at $25 (CTOnews.com notes: currently around 183 yuan) instead of $15 when it was released, causing a stir and controversy among the World of Warcraft player community. Within three hours of the launch, the line for purchase was seven hours long, with 140,000 people in line, bringing in millions of dollars in revenue, not to mention the money earned afterwards.

"That's the whole story, bro,"Hall said."You want to know why these companies do microtransactions? Because some fool keeps buying them. "

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty sold 1.5 million copies in its first two days of release and topped 6 million by the end of 2012. In 2017, Wings of Liberty became a free-to-play game, and the game's lifetime revenue remains unknown.

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