And for good reason, GamesBeat tells us in the process that Blizzard has acquired the Proletariat studio and its hundred employees to strengthen the World of Warcraft team and in particular the Dragonflight extension which will be released later this year. In fact, Proletariat started working on World of Warcraft last May and will be fully absorbed by Blizzard in the coming months, like Vicarious Visions before it.
Ending up integrated by a big machine like Blizzard was probably not the dreamed fate for this independent studio founded in 2012, but Proletariat perhaps did not have many other solutions to save all its jobs. Blizzard, for its part, always aimed to strengthen its teams and allow its major franchises (World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch) to frequently feed its communities.
“As you probably know, World of Warcraft players have a voracious appetite for content. And what we’ve seen over the past year is that we need to increase the amount of content we can create, and how often we put it in the hands of our players.“, comments John Hight, general manager of the World of Warcraft franchise.
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