Activision Blizzard’s Q2 2021 bookings drop 7% to $1.92B

Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat Wall Street’s and its own expectations with 19% revenue growth to $2.29 billion for the second quarter ended June 30. The earnings come the same day that the company announced that J. Allen Brack was no longer the president of Blizzard Entertainment and less than two weeks after news broke that the State of California was suing the publisher for sex discrimination.

Net bookings were $1.92 billion, down 7% compared with $2.08 billion for the second quarter of 2020. Activision Blizzard’s monthly active users were 408 million, down 4.6% from 428 million a year earlier. The bookings and earnings per share numbers were better than expectations, and the company said the numbers were strong even as countries continued to reopen in the second quarter from lockdowns.