Activision-Blizzard has never hidden its desire to bring all its big franchises to mobiles, to take advantage of the dynamics of this lucrative market. This is how he announced this year Warcraft Arclight Rumble, a mobile game between single and multiplayer coming to iOS and Android. At that time already, Jason Schreier mentioned the fact that another project Warcraft to the Pokemon GO had at the same time been canceled.
Blizzard also canceled a Warcraft mobile game based on geolocation a la Pokemon Go, Bloomberg earlier reported. That game, code-named Orbis, had been in development for 4+ years. Mobile games are typically made in much less time
—Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) August 3, 2022
The journalist from Bloomberg now reveals that another even more ambitious mobile title has just been dropped. This is’a MMORPG World of Warcraftwhich would not have been a direct adaptation of the cult PC game, but a spin off in another era resuming its codes. This project, dubbed Neptune was developed by NetEasea Chinese company that already has several big successes on mobiles, and its team of more than 100 employees would have been dissolved in the process, with very few proposals for internal replacement.
This abrupt cancellation would occur after 3 years of developmentwhile a financial conflict appeared between the 2 parties. Bloomberg imagine that this clash could disturb the relations of Blizzard and NetEasethe latter publishing the productions of the former in China, including World of Warcraft and Diablo Immortal. The two companies did not wish to comment on the article by Bloomberg, but given the history of Jason Schreier, we would be wrong to doubt the information. And if true, those who hoped to play wow on mobiles will be able to get dressed…
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