>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-03/blizzard-netease-scrap-warcraft-game-after-financing-dispute
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Blizzard cancelled WoW MMO spin-off after 3+ years of dev time
isnt that a good thing?
no, based Chinese would handle WoW better than gay and cringe Blizz
Yes.
gaming is healing
>there was apparently a WoW2
>it was phoneshit
pic related
I feel it's more like a necrotic tumor is sloughing off.
>WoW 2 existed
>Nah, let's have trans dragons instead
LMAO
>WoW 2
>mobile
thank god it got canceled, hopefully Blizzard shuts its doors in 5 years
Project Titan was WoW 2, but Blizzard realized they could milk WoW for eternity.
From what I remember, Project Titan had been in development for several years until they canned it.
No, they just realized Titan was dogshit and turned it into Overwatch instead.
>several years
That's a gigantic understatement. That shit was in development for like over a decade.
I desperately wish we got wow2.
>Project Titan was WoW 2
False.
Project Titan became Overwatch. All the characters from Overwatch were prototypes for classes in Titan, which was originally going to be a sci-fi style MMO, but due to all sorts of reasons that was crapped and it turned into the FPS game you all know now.
>mobile
good riddance
3 years is nothing nowadays, might have been 10% of the final product.
I always wondered why there was no console port though.
Always wanted to see old WoW on consoles.
Is this Titan all over again?
>WOW mobile is now overwatch mobile
just imagine
Good news
>NetEase
>mobile MMORPG
good riddance
>Netease
these are good news. If you still care about wow and blizzard
Good
Holy light shinin I'm puttin crisco on get my sizzle goin
so basically wow was shit because they diverted resources from it to this crappy mobile game?
No, WoW is shit because you trannies kept playing after 2010, instead of cancelling your subscription, you addicted pieces of shit.
>mop was 3 years ago
What happens when WoW eventually dies? Another MMO? Warcraft Immortal?
>What happens when WoW eventually dies?
no refunds
Blizzard Multiverse crossover game where StarCraft, Warcraft and Diablo are crammed into some GaaS monstrosity
that would make sense if it wasn't for the lore of wow being "last planet shit"
>the lore of wow
the lore of WoW is so ridiculously convoluted and nonsensical I don't think they or anyone else gives a shit, apart from that red shirt wearing autist. every single expansion and big patch is just 'an even bigger evil is pulling the strings somewhere'
They could try to do a Blizzard Warriors that would be fun if managed properly but i have little hope .
Blizzard doesn't even know SC exists at this point, they let Metzen operate without a leash and he made an SC2 that was "SW prequel"-level bad, there's not going to be an SC3.
They already made Heroes of the Storm.
>Blizzard are so far in the shit they're trying to cash in on the Valheim train with a survival game
totally forgot that thing exists
will be cancelled soon
>another mine wood to mine stone to mine iron to mine better iron to mine gems game
STOP!!
It could be fricking kino if Blizzard actually has the balls to make a game like RUST. Just imagine RUST, but with Blizzard polish and the capability to have like 1000 people per server.
You're on serious copium if you believe that Blizzard is capable of producing good products anymore.
>Blizzard polish
the company has been defunct for a long time
>defunct
What do you think that word means, exactly?
>defunct
It's the correct usage - the problem is you're thinking just because the company is named Blizzard it means it's the same Blizzard that made WoW. It isn't. Anyone of note has long left Blizzard and it's ran by diversity hires and fricking morons and has coasted on the success of their predecessors. It's Blizzard in name only
>the problem is you're thinking just because the company is named Blizzard it means it's the same Blizzard that made WoW. It isn't.
That's not how companies work.
t. israelite with zero creativity who can only buy things
No one cares for your israeli semantics and technicalities- everyone else knew what the guy meant you autist
>b-but that's n-not
No one cares, we know what he meant. Go back to plebbit
>No one cares for your israeli semantics and technicalities
There's nothing "israeli" about it, that's just what the words mean.
the israelite never could understand anything but shekels
Languages are a israeli conspiracy too.
Only a israelite is autistic enough to pick apart colloquially used words. There's a reason only you were autistic enough to play the "t-technically!" card
>colloquially used
I've never heard them colloquially used that way in my life other than in melodramatic Ganker posts.
>I've never heard them colloquially used that way
>other than in melodramatic Ganker posts
Do you even think before you type?
Which part did you find difficult?
Blizzard makes shit games now, but you can't deny that their games are always very well polished and feel great. Their movement is always snappy, the UI stuff is always good, the art is always spot on, the music is always amazing, the sound effects are always top tier, etc.
>but you can't deny that their games are always very well polished and feel great.
Are you a time traveler? What fricking decade do you think you're in?
Try reading the 2nd half of my post and you'll see exactly what I mean. You can't deny those points. Like I said, the overall games are shit, but the backend systems and details to things are always great.
it's 2022.
What makes the gameplay dogshit?
Too bad that the story and gameplay are dogshit.
Warcraft 3 Reforged
That shit was outsourced to a Malaysian company. Just compare it to HotS to see what I mean. Dogshit game, but amazing attention to detail in so many ways.
>I-IT W-WAS Outsourced
Just take the L and stfu. Blizzard is shit and has been shit for the better part of a fricking decade.
>i-it doesn't count!
It was a project with a dedicated team inside the company, them outsourcing models doesn't change the buggy mess with cut features they tried to pass of as a release.
Blizzard hasn't released a stable product since OW.
Actually, I will correct myself here. Broodwar remaster was stable and did what it was supposed to do without destroying the base game.
That was the last time blizzard did something correctly.
HotS art team have (or had) Samwise and his boys.
tfw Samwise is one of the only remaining old guards at Blizzard. The only other one I think of is Allen Adham who came back in like 2018 and then was made some sort of executive leader/SVP to focus on monetization or some shit like that.
I think glenn stafford still works there too. I still listen to his w2 tracks to this day
Glenn Stafford, Derek Duke and Jason Hayes. 3 OG dudes who all worked on music and are still at Blizzard. That's pretty neat. Blizzard's music has always been really good.
Nobody is left at Blizzard but useless middlemen, chinese do everything
HOTS was not polished at all, I enjoyed it for what it was, but it's engine was dogshit and it's exactly why it didn't have a widespread appeal
They should have used Diablo 3's engine for it instead of Starcraft 2
Because League players didn't want to swap MOBA's after they sunk countless hours and dollars into the game.
It's been really funny seeing what they were wasting their time for the last 7~ years
All these shit projects surfacing are if anything interesting
Anon, their games have been releasing with multiple bugs and shit servers
Blizzard hasn't released a game in 6 years. All their talent has fricking left the building
Please, tell me more about the eternal staying power of the three "B"'s.
Polish deez nuts, b***h
>. Their movement is always snappy,
Wow characters move when you press buttons
>UI
it's trash
>Art
Garbage, just look at wow
>Music
boring as shit
>blizzard polish
Anon...
>Blizzard polish
hello, time traveller
things have changed a bit in the future
"blizzard polish" hasn't really been a thing for well over a decade now
enjoy your trip!
nu-Blizz servers can't handle 50 players in the same layer without lag. You're moronic.
>Blizzard polish
doesnt mean shit nowadays
>blizzard was the good guy all along
>Blizzard polish
L M A O
Thanks for the laugh anon
SC2 is more polished than any other RTS.
WoW is more polished than any other MMO.
D3 is more polished than any other ARPG.
Hearthstone is more polished than any other card game.
Overwatch is more polished than most other FPS games, except for maybe CS:GO/CoD/Apex/Valorant.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Great argument.
https://voca.ro/1hHrF5ZWB7Bb
autism
It was a funny joke, anon
thank you for the comedy, i needed that
You're right from user experience viewpoint
SC2 isn't even an RTS anymore, it's a MOBA with extra steps.
The competitive RTS mode is virtually dead and Blizz deliberately smothered it to push their MTX-riddled co-op hero mode.
You would have to be incredibly, almost willfully ignorant to say something so astoundingly uneducated
-SC2 is SC1 with worse music
-WoW has been shit since the first expansion
-D3 was garbage
-Hearthstone has a number of bugs and lag and bullshit, and takes an unacceptable amount of resources off your computer for a card game (spying software and shit). Also, it's a fricking CARD GAME, with fricking jpegs and fricking cards. God help us if blizzard couldn't have a minimum level of polish on that.
-Overwatch : I don't know, I don't play non binary games, they hurt my eyes and soul cuz everything is fugly.Let's just say I'll press x to doubt.
>SC1 with worse music
SC2 has no unit selection limit and as a result it massively streamlined build orders with no mid-game or late-game nuance beyond deathballs
The campaign is also irredeemable dogshit, unlike SC1 where even if you're not into competitive RTS you can still get something out of the singleplayer mode
Wait, Overwatch is a non-binary video game? Whoa, the future is here!
You know what I mean american representative woke diversity lgbtqkljksdhgflsdfyhgk++++ shite. For some reason each time they do that they on top of it make a point to have the designs be terrible. But yea i'm not really into playing shy chubby disney girls with glasses in my shooter games or anything else that looks like a cashier, maybe I'm conditioned by the patriarchy.
The absolute polish of SC2 of frying graphics cards on the title screen.
The absolute polish of getting stuck in a tree in WoW after they updated siege engine models.
The absolute polish of not being able to play D3 on launch because it was always online.
The absolute polish of having to restart Hearthstone so it stops running at 1 FPS.
>Overwatch
Whoops didn't realize that this was bait.
>WoW is more polished than any other MMO.
>they can't release an update without breaking the game
lol they added m+ cancer to raids and called it another difficulty level?
they'd need more than just balls, they'd need a time machine to go back to when they actually had real talent working there
>to when they actually had real talent working there
>real talent
Like who?
I don't know, I'm not a blizzard insider. All I know is that they led the industry with some groundbreaking games in the past and now they've gotten to the point where a fricking mobile game is their biggest and possibly only recent financial success
>and possibly only recent financial success
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201208005691/en/World-of-Warcraft%C2%AE-Shadowlands-Becomes-Fastest-Selling-PC-Game-of-All-Time
>Blizzard polish
it's over
>Blizzard polish
Don't ask questions, just grind numbers so your number output gets bigger.
> Blizzard polish
This isn’t the 2000s anonymous, all the decent hard working nerd devs left or got pushed out.
nerd devs care very little about polish
> Blizzard polish
Polish in what? Terrible art direction? Terrible balancing? Stats, itemization? I recently played HotS and the often control often don't even work, you press and click and nothing happens, this shit apparently been a thing for years. Also it's way easier to polish games when they are straightforward. Survivial games are often sandboxy which is much harder to "polish"
Also Blizzard was dead when they made Diablo 3, and didnt produce anything worth of attention since wow vanilla. Why the frick would anyone expect anything for blizzard in 2022?
ohhh man a fricking Blizzard polish homosexual haven't seen one of your kind in ages was starting to think you went extinct
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>blizzard polish
excellent bait
Are blizzcucks the saddest type of fanboy?
They hated him because he spoke the truth.
I can't imagine WoW with 1000 per server.
Valheim is fun, atmospheric and comfy which is more than can be said for anything that's come of blizzard in the last 10 years, debatably since Wrath.
You jest but there was a point where Blizzard actually considered this ideia.
They made even a map about game areas.
>What happens when WoW eventually dies?
I bet some people would commit suicide. There are addicts who put in ten thousands of hours into this game.
The age of the MMO is over, it's been largely replaced by social media and mobile gaming.
I would be very surprised of Riot's MMO isn't going to be wildly successful.
Unironically, the day WoW dies is the same day where normies find the metaverse. It might not be the zuckverse, but the day is coming when some immersive virtual world captures a mainstream audience as much as WoW did, and all MMOs currently will also die out in its wake.
Immersive? It is one of the least immersive MMO ever made. Even MMO before it were more immersive.
More immersive then, but its all relative.WoW was far more immersive than a MUD from a graphics perspective. VR is more immersive likewise. Point is, graphics will matter for a mainstream audience and that audience will create the demand for metaverse which at this point seem way better poised for monetization. Once the demand for metaverse is real, then why bother maintaining old MMOs?
>Once the demand for metaverse is real, then why bother maintaining old MMOs?
Why wouldn't they maintain them if they still make money?
Just put it on gamepass
The best thing Blizzard could ever do, is realize Wowa wowcra has much more potential as single player games, than an MMO. Hell, it doesn't even need to be an RTS. All they need to do is an RPG, maybe a CRPG, plenty of options out there.
Making an MMO is what killed and stagnated the Warcraft story.
>game breaking record revenue thanks to whales buying cosmetics (to show to other players) and tokens (to sell for gold to other players)
>"this has much more potential as single player game!"
wew lad
Just add gacha with lewd elves
We'll see. WotLK classic is in like a month. Then another 3 until everyone gets bored and the series is dead forever.
chink shovelware, not for whites anyway
>OH NONONONONONONONONO WOW SISTERS
Please refrain from publicly announcing your cum-gargling marathons.
no bump contributed
After seeing how Blizzard + NetEase handled Diablo Immortal, I am 99% sure that this game was cancelled because either side wanted to israelite it up harder and the other side didn't want to make another Diablo Immortal situation.
Which one is which? I doubt the chinks are avoiding israeliteing things harder
and nothing of value was lost
they probably saw the 34k report and cancelled the game instantly
>they probably saw the 34k report
QRD? Don't fricking tell me there's only 34k concurrent for WoW. That'd be EoS.
>3 years
How tragic that they lost 3 months of work.
how will they ever cope with the loss of those 3 days of work
You can crop out the twitter turd dispenser next time, OP
frick you guys, immortal on mobile is kino even though i didnt spend a cent on it
It's pretty much worse than D3 in almost every single way.
Bobby Kotick, is that you?
>kino
You have to be 18 to use this site, you're a grown adult, use your fricking words
If you are bugchaser cancer induced anal sex , from all the gift giving you ve been doing , because cancer and aids are not kino you dumb piece of shit
now for regular WoW to shut down forever. and then a blizzard shut down. and then execution of all blue hairs in activision
>netease
Literally who cares
MICROSOFT FRICKING SAVE US
next cancel WoW itself
>cancelled a mobile WoW spin-off game that's been in dev for 3+ years
>NetEase has disbanded a dev team of 100 people
What happened to the team? Were they fired or moved to other projects?
It's netease, they're probably back in the ccp hacking/shitposting central until the next time they need developers.
MMO on mobile is not real gaming
>mobile
So nothing of value was lost?
I don't know why you guys are obsessed with this company.
They've made nothing but bad games since WoW vanilla.
It's like Bioware.
okay but they are still releasing a mobile game
>mobile game
"oh no"
You deserve this for loving WoW so much.
Fat american addicts playing WoW (Ganker is filled of them) are the reason why Blizz turned to shit.
Blizzard turned to shit as soon as Activision came in and changed the philosophy of the company. Instead of making games out of love, they started making games purely for profit. It all happened around 2010 when they started making weird ass changes in WotLK like rehashing Naxx, VoA free epics, LFG system, half-assed TotC, etc. and started the WoW cash shop there as well.
Blizzard was well on the path before they got bought out by activision. The amount of braindrain in the company was unprecedented in the industry and all the good and bad engineers and designers spread throughout like chinaflu.
>Hellgate: London
That game was so cool. What a wasted potential that turned out to be.
blizzard must die so that gaming may live
fair trade
the cringe arclight thing? if so good
No, it was WoW 2
I'm guessing cancelled on MS' behalf.
lmao this game probably had worse pay to win than diablo. Too much bad press and the game probably sucks. Still making millions off diablo.
>mobile
100% it was cancelled because they knew they would lose way too much goodwill, something they hardly even have anyone. I'm sure it was as bad as Diablo Immortal when it came to monetization as well which is another reason it was shelved. What a shit fricking company
So the future of wow was a fricking mobile game? I fricking knew it.
Didn't Diablo Immortal scam a ton of people? Why would they not want to scam even more?
stuck in development hell? emergency infusion of devs to prop up their new cash cow? or maybe they think new games will eat diablo immortal's lunch or something
>Immortal in devlopemnt for years
>Kills Dialbo
>Mobile WoW in devloment for years
>gets disbanded
Are they learning?
A TOAST TO THE DEATH OF WORLO WARCAR
>spend 4+ fricking years reskinning an existing phone ARPG
>spend 3+ years failing to reskin another phone game with a warcraft theme
How is blizzard so fricking bad at mobile?
I bet if hearthstone wasn't made in unity it would have never left PC.
It was probably even more microtransaction heavy than Diablo Immoral
Didnt they acquire 100 employees recently?
Wonder if its related
They got 100 developers from that Spellbreak game. They're all gonna work on WoW to speed up patches. They seem intent on trying to keep WoW above 1 million subs.
>mobile spin-off
Get fricked, get fricking fricked. There goes your diablo immortal revenue gays
Diablo Immortal released in China ~10 days ago. I wonder if it got received so extremely poorly that they just ended up cancelling this game and deal with NetEase.
Some leaks would be nice. I'm interested to see how would it look and play.
Those sorts of canned projects only get leaks years after
Maybe some angsty fueled dev is willing to leak something for us but you're probably right.
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>Blizzard board of directors expects war in South china sea
Or Disblo immortal isn't doing well
>Netease
>Mobile
Who cares.
Gee, it's almost like you can't develop a new game when all your developers have been replaced by diversity hires...
Wait, NetEase has replaced their staff with diversity hires? I never saw a Chinese company doing that before.
Blizzard definitely can't, and netease realized this and demanded more pay for hauling their ass, which microsoft said no and just washed away the whole thing
I was just mocking your lack or reading comprehension, but seem that you're completely moronic. Sad.
There's no need for projection anon, blizzard was not in a bargaining position to shoot down netease and their demand for higher pay, especially after netease is the reason why blizzard was earning profit last quarter with Diablo Immortal.
When netease argued that blizzard needs to pay them due to their good performance on Diablo Immortal, Microsoft was the one who stopped the deal, probably wanting to restructure blizzard into making their own hits again rather than the outsourcing gamble that can damage their IP's like with reforged.
This is why microsoft brought the spellbreak team over to blizzard, but has them on their east coast office in a different location, Microsoft wants to use blizzards IP's but knows the California location has a severe lack of talent, so they are just going through contract motions so they can cut the fat and replace a lot of untalented blizz devs without PR fallout.
>different time period
What does it mean?
Like, Azeroth but in the victorian era?
There are multiple lore relevant time periods, like the war of the ancients time period, or the orcs vs humans time period that the movie covered.
They could have also made warcraft 3 into an mmo, which would have been interesting, night elves weren't friendly with the dwarves and humans, and the undead weren't part of the horde.
nice
Hope the workers are safe and can freely infect other products!
The best thing MS could do to Blizzard would be to burn it to the ground.
They could see how much worse they could make it by putting 343 in charge.
But why even? In this day and age, you can release literally half a mobile game while everyone screams and shits on you and you'll still make millions off it. Close it down in a year and you'll have made a shitton of money for nothing. It's not like they have any reputation left to risk.
Blizzard IP is not at all like Sports IP.
Anno-type game but in a Warcraft setting.
wait
wait are we going to pretend to be upset over losing mobile wow?