even if they generate a shitton of money, they will stop development if that profit is a small % of what they could get if they're working on something else (that is, something that is not wow retail)
why having a team working on wow expansion X to get 20 mil, if they can make those people work on game X and get 200 mil?
if mobile games are always x5 more profitable than wow, and a trend, then no reason to bother with wow
So much this. I barely can’t remember any names for hubs or cities or villages from BfA or Shadowlands whereas I can recall every flight point or hub in each of the Classic zones. And no, this has nothing to do with flying, but with how… I don’t know, unimpressive or uninteresting the new continents just have been. Particularly in Shadowlands I remember nothing although I read every quest once on my main character. I just recall nothing, no important NPCs and no hub names. I just couldn’t care enough to really remember all of this stuff. In expansions like Legion, TBC or Wrath this was completely different. In Legion especially I wanted to interact with the world. In BfA and Shadowlands I was happy when I was done with the zones and hadn’t had to return. This is the exact opposite of good game design.
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And you bought that story? That a company large enough to have corporate mandated hiring quotas had only a single (apparently fresh out of college) woman apply to this job posting? That was more believable than a disgruntled manager bitter about getting overruled on a hiring decision stepped out of line to tell you something that wasn't quite true? Yeah, ok.
It's always the same story; this manager just HAS to quietly tell you this thing they're not supposed to say, that someone with absolutely no qualifications or experience was the ONLY viable candidate they got and this was the ONLY position that could be filled by X type of candidate but they still went through all the trouble of interviewing these other apparently "perfect" candidates who they weren't allowed to hire.
Can it happen? Sure, anything can happen. But the situation you describe is pretty outlandish and if true would be exceedingly rare. A company that doesn't understand how to use diversity hiring strategies properly, a single position to fill a quota, the only candidate that fits that quota also happens to be extremely unqualified, and of course the requisite manager to give you the inside scoop.
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What else do they have that generate more money or have the potential for it? Theres no IP coming from Blizzard that generates anything remotely close to wow. At best we are looking at some half assed mobile game as a new IP from them.
If you look outside of just Blizzard, the only other juggernaut in the ActiBlizz portfolio is CoD and probably Candycrush. But we are talking about Blizzard here, and they aint got anything else big. Not now, not coming in the next couple of years.
Also, last time Blizzard took a chance it was with Overwatch. It has gotten a mixed review and aint that popular now(I really like it still). Besides that, its been the same old and safe IPs the last decades.
To your last question - why risk millions of dollars on a game that might flop from the beginning when you can shuffle out wow xpacs and make millions on a steady basis?
And yes, why should any game company even bother with making anything else than mobile games? as you said, that makes most money. Why are we not seeing that then?
Seems to me you just want to wow to shut down, go bust and never be playable again. You might dislike the game and you might like something new(as do I), but fact is they are raking in the big bucks with this game. So far anyway, and nothing suggests they wont in the future either.
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Personally, i enjoy reading comments like
9.3 will happen, 10.0 won't be revealed until Blizzconline 2022, and won't launch until Q1 2023.
Book it.It's like reading one of those expansion leaks that actually turned out to be real deal and everyone called it fake, except in reverse.I do hold a belief that we'll get a 9.3.
I, for one, am grateful for this bump, solely for entertainment value.
It is the right decision to keep the two years interval for each expansion release.
Over 6 months of recycled "season 4" will be suiciding.
I honestly wish there would be a 9.3 just to tie in Azeroth and our transition back to it. But I'd be lying if I didn't just want it for the option of new Allied Races to be added as an explanation of how the Horde and Alliance were able to fend off the unchained scourge.
There is nothin to predict. They said 9.2.5 is the last one. Just realese season 4 as 9.2.5 and small prelaunch patch before 10.0