https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/news/23790112/youre-invited-to-a-warcraft-mobile-game-reveal
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Honestly considering it’s massive massive success, I’m surprised at the lack of Pokemon GO clones.
Though most people here aren’t going to be happy at new phone games anyway which is fine, those guys aren’t the target audience anyway.
There is a Harry potter one but I guess the sheer amount of work requiring to make it work is a big barrier to entry.
It’s easier to create a gatcha game with basic base building designed around heroes than cooperate with Google to spawn stuff across the world.
It’s not necessarily obvious to me. I mean yes most mobile users do not play on PC but it’s not necessarily true the other way around. And Blizz players proved time and time again that they had money to waste (shop mounts anyone ?)
Hearthstone is at its core a mobile game, with a PC port. And so will diablo immortal next month.
HS was very popular among fans despite being a mobile game, and the odds are good that Immortal will follow suit. (I didn’t follow it too closely but the last two headlines I’ve seen were about removing any p2w from the shop & announcing that immortal will be playable on PC which sounds fairly good although feel free to correct me if I’m wrong)
Things are surprisingly looking good for Blizzard lately.
They are releasing three news PC titles (4 with classic ?) and 3 mobile games in the coming future and along with D2R they basically doubled the number of games in that IP.
And while undeserved the Microsoft buyout restored quite a bit of goodwill from the playerbase. (Announcing they would fire Bobby definitely helped)
I just hope they won’t foolishly screw it up with another “don’t you guys have phones ?” situation.
I wasn’t expecting anything but.
Still disappointed though.
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I think Blizzard’s mobile Warcraft games are about as well-kept a secret as Dragonflight was for World of Warcraft.
We know and have known for years that they’re working on their own version of Pokémon Go and that Cory Stockton who’s a massive Nintendo, Pokémon, and LEGO fan is heading the project. The guy was basically walking advertisement for the game on his twitter profile before the recent lawsuit, despite the fact that he never said a word about it.
The same goes for Clash of Clans. The RTS gaming legacy of Blizzard combined with the fan outcry for Warcraft IV and the popularity of the strategy genre on mobile? Yeah, again, known secret for years now.
I think what’s curious and interesting is to actually see what those games look like.
Because it seems to be like with Diablo Immortal.
“Yeah we’re going to develop a mobile game. That’s easier than creating a massive juggernaut game for the PC! It’ll hardly take any time to make at all”
4 years later…
“We’re starting to see light at the end of the tunnel! Soon! Oh and thank you for your patience!”
One has to fear the same thing here.
They’ll reveal the games, but they won’t have any release dates to offer, and it’ll end up being years down the road before anyone gets to play those games.
Hearthstone was perhaps the exception to the rule where they revealed it and announced the release date to be before the end of the year.
So that’s concern number 1. When are they coming out?! Because Blizzard have already spent half a decade on these games, which is absolutely absurd for a mobile release. So either those games are mind-blowingly good, or they’re the result of iteration hell with questionable results.
We’ll see.
The second concern is the gameplay.
Blizzard are known for being the company that takes a genre with potential, and then realizes that potential to its maximum. That’s the case with RTS and StarCraft, MMORPG and WoW, and CCG and Hearthstone. Blizzard tends to set a new standard for a genre with their games.
However, when you look at Pokémon Go it’s a bit hard to see how Blizzard can do a whole lot better. The Pet Battle system in WoW is already a version of the Pokémon Gameboy games.
So what can they possibly go for?!
Pokémon’s strength is the creatures themselves. Pikachu is a powerhouse of a mascot for the Pokémon franchise. The whole story universe that everyone watched when they were kids with Ash and Brock and Misty and the journey to become a Pokémon Master. Warcraft has none of that. Blizzard makes cool pets, no doubt about it. They’re visually stunning, but they don’t have any character. And Pet Battles in WoW doesn’t have anywhere near the same story depth to it that Pokémon has.
And who’s it going to be for? 30-40 year old WoW nerds? Unlikely. So it’s kids, right? But won’t they just prefer Pokémon, which is already super tailored to them, as opposed to the Warcraft franchise that they likely know very little about?
I think the Clash of Clans strategy game will be brilliant though, because Blizzard has so much experience with strategy games. And like with Hearthstone, then they have so much material in the Warcraft drawer that they can apply as they please and really make a game that’s soaked in Warcraft quality.
The third concern is connection with the IP.
Because one thing we’ve seen Hearthstone is that it removed its initial title “Heroes of Warcraft” and went from having a serious Warcraft trailer with known Warcraft characters to having a cute Pixar trailer with a little girl and a cute mouse.
Because fact of the matter seems to be that you can’t really advertise Warcraft to the masses anymore, because the younger generation doesn’t have any prior attachment to it.
So it’ll be curious to see how much Warcraft will be in these Warcraft games.
Either way I’m definitely going to watch the reveal. Not because it’s a surprise what the games are in general terms, but because the details are unknown. And the details matter a lot.
I’m looking forward to trying them both. Can’t wait for the reveal.
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I believed in you… I believed in our love…
but this? we cant see each other anymore…
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Actually that went down the drain, the developer stopped the servers in February. Also keep in mind the same company created Pokemon Go and Wizards Unite so even with their already working engine and experience they lost money on it.
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Careful walking about trying to catch em all down your neck of the woods. They drive like absolute maniacs.
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A pokemon go clone is definitely not for me. Ugh, going outside? Why do you think I play WoW?
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Oh that’s a bit surprising, but also not! I mean, like already mentioned, how can you possibly do better than Pokémon Go when you don’t have the Pokémon universe? It will always come up short. I think that’s the take-away from Pokémon Go. It’s not really a genre, it’s just…Pokémon.
But then that means it’s another game Blizzard have spent years working on just to ultimately throw in the dumpster? Great…
So the reveal is just the strategy Clash of Clans game then? Let’s hope it also doesn’t get cancelled! 
I think it’s fair to say that Blizzard’s biggest problem as a company is that their own percieved quality standards for their games is so ridiculously high that they often struggle to meet them and therefore barely ever produce any games. Which is pretty problematic if you’re a video game company who’s basis of existence is to produce games!
Haha 
we are the same! I’m like Dracula non have ever seen me in sunlight 
I managed to play Pokemon Go without leaving my house much. I’m sure you advance much faster if you venture inside the outside world though.
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