An excerpt from Kotaku’s recent article, The Past, Present, And Future Of Diablo (cannot paste links, so you’ll have to Google):
bla bla bla Diablo III failed but then recovered but then Blizzard canceled the second addin and canceling it was a mistake bla bla Diablo 4 is in the works but they are not committed to it so they announced what they were committed to = Diablo Immortal and this too was a big mistake…
bla bla however the team feels great about mobile game in general aaaaaaaaand:
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For example, developers told me, quite a few people at Blizzard play Pokémon Go , the massively popular mobile game that lets you use your phone’s camera to catch wild creatures. As one developer explained, the iconic orc statue in the center of Blizzard’s campus is a Pokémon Gym, and staff wage war over who gets to control the landmark on a daily basis.
The natural extension of that was for one of Blizzard’s incubation teams to develop a Warcraft version of Pokémon Go , which is in development for smartphones now. Surely it occurred to the decision-makers at Blizzard that this Warcraft spinoff could be a massive revenue generator, but the game is also in production because lead designer Cory Stockton (formerly of World of Warcraft ) is a huge fan of Pokémon. (People who have played the Warcraft mobile game say it’s also got a lot more to it than Pokémon Go , including single-player mechanics.)
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So, we are getting a mobile game about pets. And it is related to Warcraft.
I think this might be WoW pet battles - perhaps you can play that part of the game even without paying for WoW (that would line up with what they’d generally want to do with the game at this stage). Otherwise what else could that even be? It’s pets and it’s about Warcraft. Seems wasteful to do one more version of pets parallel to the pet battle system they already have, no?
What do you think?