Patch 9.0.2 Hotfixes - February 22, 2021,Warcraft Mobile Game Tweet

[Enter Name Here]

it will be most likely a MP game of sorts to encourage buying stuff out of jealousy - you won't have that with SP games. clash of clans in a warcraft skin?

or even something bigger like a battle royale *shrugs*

[Dalheim]

Mobile game = puke. I will note support finncaly reterded developers. Sub canceled.

If they were ''Financially retarded'', they wouldnt do mobile games at all. It's a huge gain for them, since mobile games are huge - especially in China.

[Cazze]

Might be the issue honestly. The Warcraft IP doesn't appeal to general audiences like they want it to, but it appeals to MMO lovers. If they focused less on dumbing down their game and making worthless phone shit, they would probably turn a larger profit than they do appealing to people who will never play it.

A large majorit of mobile games have the wow aestetic ripped off. There is for a large genral appeal.

[erifwodahs]

Might be the issue honestly. The Warcraft IP doesn't appeal to general audiences like they want it to, but it appeals to MMO lovers. If they focused less on dumbing down their game and making worthless phone shit, they would probably turn a larger profit than they do appealing to people who will never play it.

Whole wow community is so fractioned that appealing to the "MMO lovers" is impossible. Also look at some guys here - "you develop a game for a different platform? - UNSUB!", which they won't do ofc. but still, trying to appeal to such players sounds more like a relationship with abusive and envious partner rather than working with fans.

[MrFawlty]

You are free to see it this way.

But if that is the case, why does Diablo Immortal (or any mobile announcement) still gets shit? Just like @mojusk so aptly put into one gif

Yeah, its almost like most people who play Wow are PC owners.

[Resheph]

So, being a gamer all my life that plays several MMO's as well as some other types of games including quite a few mobile games that I like when taking a break during a walk or when traveling by train, I am looking forward to a Warcraft inspired mobile game. Should be great fun.

[Snowfunk]

Zoomerkiddies and edgelords gonna reee.

[Doffen]

Nice! Immortal and now this. Just a shame one is at least 1 year and the other 3 years away from launch. How long does it take to make a mobile game!?

Inc Smash Bros game for WoW :>

[Kallisto]

The only reason people flipped shit over Immortal was since people expected a D4 announcement instead.

Which if they spent 5 minutes reading official bliz social media they would have known no D4 announcement was imminent because even before the tickets went on sale Blizzard were crystal clear there was no D4 announcement incoming

[DarkAmbient]

Not interested in a mobile game at all. But is that guy allowed to say what he said?

[Djuntas]

haha, what - Surely he just lost his job now. Never seen such a leak before.

[Absintheminded]

Battle pets I bet

[Arikara]

What, they killed Starcraft and HotS but have no qualms about wasting budget on another mobile fiasco?

[SoLoR1]

You all have phones right?!

[ONCHEhap]

What, they killed Starcraft and HotS but have no qualms about wasting budget on another mobile fiasco?

it's not wasted budget sadly.
The mobile market is by far and large the biggest source of profits in the video game industry.

Mobile gaming in China alone was 60% of all video game profits in the world last time I checked,and it's been in a constant rise

[Angelica Angelus]

It's cringe, I admit. And this is coming from someone who plays multiple mobile gachas.

[Kathranis]

Battle pets I bet

More likely just a spinoff Warcraft game given that he calls it a "Warcraft mobile game" and not a "WoW mobile game."

[Osmeric]

If a mobile game is profitable it doesn't divert net assets from WoW, it just expands the business. There isn't some fixed size pool of developers they have to allocate to the projects. They can hire, or fire, as necessary.

WoW's problems are internal to WoW, and to its relationship to the evolving market. At worst, development of mobile games is a symptom of those problems, not a cause.

[Blackmist]

Wow, can't wait to play a crap version of Warcraft on a 4 inch screen that takes too long to load, drains batteries despite being a potato era game, and keeps making you target the wrong stuff with your sausage fingers.

[Biggles Worth]

Erm...nope. People went apeshit and stark raving mad about the announcement of Diablo Immortal (and not only about the "Don't you have phones" part). And people in this thread allegedly have quit WoW about the announcement of a Warcraft mobile thread. They claim to have done so in this thread.

Actually hilariously pathetic. Imagine getting up, reading about all the shit that goes on in the world, coming to MMO-C, reading about an mobile WoW game and getting so enraged that you log into your account and cancel the sub.

It is like never buying another iPhone because Apple announced they would also offer a streaming service or something.

They mainly went apeshit over Immortal because people were expecting and wanting Diablo 4 and they just basically got like a Diablo 3 but on your phone instead. Wow has been on a constant 2ish year expansion cycle. They know it's coming and what they'll get when it comes, there's no secrets there.