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Blizzard shifted most of development teams to Mobile game production. Many new Mobile titles incomin
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It is like 1 or 2 or the board just told everyone to go all in on mobile.Then it is very likely their team/s have little experiences in the mobile field,so again a business decision more than ...hey let's do something great for mobile.
If Blizzard wanted to make a great mobile title,they wouldn't just rehash their current IP's to sell it on name and not on merit.They would also take the time to announce one title at a time and learn from the mistakes.
Seeing a bug in Hearthtone "Warlock hero upgrade",a VERY important one has been there for 6 months,says Blizzard doesn't care much about fixing or learning from mistakes,they simply release products as fast as possible.Their Beta's are also like many devs FAKE,a simple couple months but not much gets fixed if anything,more like an advertising phase.
Geesh i just look at Hearthstone yet again,they went with a very cheap engine Unity that also to this day plays laggy with every single game i play on Unity.So what are they going to use again Unity because it is a cheap option?Yes i understand it is more about their slack coding team and networking team but still i have NEVER had a smooth running game on Unity.
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Personally i expect a low end game ,nothing like SE and Nexxon bringing out a high end FFXi on mobile but more the same old cheap moba's and HOTS's/Diablo's ARPG's,you knwo easy to make and easy run games that take little effort.
If they announced say Wow for Mobile,now THAT would be interesting news that i would follow but again i would need to see change..promising ideas..etc etc.
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My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB:
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After all Blizzard is still a company and thus the end goal is making more money, mobile is getting big... Heck some of the new ipads rivals a basic mid-range laptop and the new pro will rival a high end one (of the specs turns out true) in pretty much everything but graphics.
Sure we are a bit out from running the latest CoD on a phone but as a platform mobile stand to kill the console market and push the low to mid range computers to the side.
As such, it is stupid to not invest in mobile as a market, and i´d hate to try and defend staying out to shareholders... "well you see good sir/madam... Nostalgia is keeping med from making this very important move because it impacts my engorged ego." =P
I do not like it but.. I did not care much for the console market either, i still saw the worth in investing in to that.
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Even if it isn't "most", "many" means they took many people from other development teams to work on mobile gaming instead.
And with how poorly received BFA is, it perfectly explains why it hasn't been well received since they took "many" of the "best" devs from WoW and probably other teams too.
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The one thing that is weird to me, if they are moving their developers to mobile games, why is Diablo Infinite being sourced out to NetEase? I'm hoping their own mobile games are actually good, I would gladly play an actual game on the mobile phone, rather than some gatcha auto playing crap.
Even moderate success there will probably make WoW's entire revenue look like chump change...
Tactile response is completely missing, and there's likited screen space because of how both UI and controls have to take up part of it, not to mention the rest of the player's finger/thumb that isn't actually touching the screen.. I don't see that scheme destroying the PC and console markets.
I dont' think it matters if Blizzard make mobile or not. People always think Dev targeting other audience hinders their current audience. I dont' think it is related. If there is an audience Blizzard will make PC games. If it is not profitable, they just stop.
It's partially funny because for almost 10 years the MMO genre has either been asking or looking for who or what was going to take down WoW and Blizzard to knock them out from the #1 spot. I don't know if anyone really believed that Blizz would end up taking themselves out in the end, but here we are folks.
So sad to see the death of two very well fleshed out IPs with such rich lore behind them. There was so much quality money to be made in comics, movies, tv shows, and other media outlets for both IPs, but instead they went for the easy money....who can blame them. The problem is that anything that comes easily doesn't last very long.
Mobile will be the future of gaming for me when you can plug an Oculus Rift into it like that one scene from one of the .hack anime series. The girl is in the park and she pulls out her phone and simply presses something on the side of her face and vr goggles swoosh across her eyes and she logs in to "The World". Do that and I'm all for mobile...til then no thanks.
yes we've established they don't quite understand the internet(same as most people).
i doubt that people serious about making awesome games(mobile games will never be that) would commit to just churning out what amounts to crap.
I had fun once, it was terrible.
I'm not an IT Specialist, Game Developer, or Clairvoyant in real life, but like others on here, I play one on the internet.