Don’t care really, I’m not the audience, I never will be and I will never play it, and i will never want to play it.
So why give a rats ass? If Blizz wanna waste money using a franchise with nowhere near the popularity Pokemon and try and rehash a format that doesn’t fit the franchise on a shitty cash grab because they sold out to a cynical corporation that only cares for the bottom line, who am I to tell them not to. let em let them fall flat on there ass or succeed. Either way it ain’t my problem.
I think mobile games are trash. Most of them have an auto play function and they just have no real fee to them. Plus the fact that phones aren’t exactly great for game controls.
Lets hope They never move all the devs to mobile projects. Would be a self righteous suicide for blizzard. A filler like mobile wouldnt ne a core game like wow. The problem is that They are never planning anything new wow side except new expansion i guess. And when wow will die what the wow community what it will supposed to do?
A game like wow requires ages to be produced. This is my concern.
No! Stop! Get that thing away from me! Don’t you dare suggest a wow equivalent of DI, especially when there’s a lot of issues with the current expansion that Blizzard needs to deal with! I don’t want this game to head to the trashcan, like what is about to happen with Diablo.
If anyone hasn’t seen these highlights from MMO-Champion, I’ll copy and paste so you can see. Definitely worth discussing:
Warcraft Go?
Some Blizzard developers are genuinely excited to make mobile games.
A lot of Blizzard developers play Pokemon Go.
A natural extension of this was for the new Incubation Team to develop a Warcraft version of Pokémon Go, which is supposedly in development for smartphones now.
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.
Diablo
Diablo III had a second expansion that was canceled.
Blizzard says cancellations show commitment to quality and that they have only released about 50% of the projects that they have worked on in the past 3 decades.
Project Hades was reportedly a Diablo game in development that would be more like Dark Souls, an over the shoulder dungeon crawler that was also canceled.
Project Fenris is the current incarnation of Diablo IV and the team is optimistic about it. Their art direction is to embrace the darkness.
Project Fenris is still early in development and will likely not launch until 2020 or later.
They still claim that there was talks to announce Diablo IV at BlizzCon, but it wasn’t far enough along in time, yet one dev disputes this.
Blizzard is careful to announce games before they are ready now because of what happened with Project Titan.
Project Fenris is being worked on by a separate team from Diablo: Immortal known as Incubation.
Diablo: Immortal exists because they heard that China really wanted a Diablo mobile game.
Activision and Blizzard
Blizzard employees say one of the biggest ongoing conversations this year has been cutting costs.
Blizzard’s response for comment was “Blizzard has been and continues to be a developer-driven company. All of the games we create represent ideas our game developers themselves are passionate about. This is as true for Diablo Immortal as it was for Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, or Overwatch, or any game we’ve ever made. We believe that the best games to make are ones that our developers believe in.”
*** The perception is that Activision is starting to get more and more involved with Blizzard because 2018 had been a weak year for them.**
** * The meetings this year was the first time many employees heard things like cutting costs or showing growth.**
** * Activision wants to boost Blizzard’s content output by adding more developers and release more games on a regular schedule.**
** * Mike Morhaime stepping down was a big blow because he was seen as the Anti-CEO and just wanted to make good games and keep employees happy without worrying about profitability.**
The thing that tops it all off for me is we now have to dance like little doggies to be able to post links that otherwise we could before, oh and we cant say naughty words any more without using forum wizardry…
Keep in mind the source of the information was Kotaku, they don’t exactly have the best of reputations, anything Kotaku says I’ll take with a grain of salt because they’re on the same level as the sun newspaper.
Apparently because i play pc games,i am a gamers and phone gaming is for woman.
So i hate phones game because i hate woman,thats what some SJW have write in an article.
Also i have a nokia 3310,i have smashed so many times on the floor because i wanted an excuse to buy a new phone but it still working,i dont have phones for this.
Yea… Like a Pokemon, only with Warcraft pets so that people have even more reason to stick their noses to phones and be even more absent from the world that they allready are? No thanks.
As one developer explained, the iconic orc statue in the center of Blizzard’s campus is a Pokéstop, and staff wage war over who gets to control the landmark on a daily basis.
I loved that bit xD of the article.
I am the laziest pokemon go player myself. If it’s not something I can catch while sitting on the sofa then I sure as hell am not going out looking for them. Any WoW mobile game would be the same. There is no way I’m going roaming around to find stuff. I know many love that thang it’s just not for me.
The odd time I play a game on my mobile it’s usually because I have some time to kill. Even games I really liked to start with like the Simpson’s game I rarely touch these days.
If they had a section on the current app where I could do the pet battles that are up I might play it for a while. I’d rather see them add the social features that are missing as a priority though.
