In the early morning of March 8, the official Twitter account of World of Warcraft released a roadmap for the major events of the Warcraft IP this year, including the release of the Hearthstone expansion pack on March 15, the Opening of the World of Warcraft Arena World Championship on March 18, and the Release of the World of Warcraft expansion pack on April 19. The most eye-catching is the announcement of a new mobile game for Warcraft in May.
Blizzard did not disclose more information about the Warcraft mobile game, but some analysts said that in previous years, most of the Blizzard new games will be exposed at the end of the year at the Blizzcon carnival, and this year's choice to break the news of the new tour in May is likely to be because of the emphasis on the domestic market, choosing to jointly release the new product with NetEase, a domestic publisher with more experience in the field of mobile game distribution, so the Warcraft mobile game is likely to choose to be announced at the NetEase 520 Enthusiast Conference.
Another big trump card of NetEase's 22-year 520 conference is "Against the Water Cold Mobile Game", and it is reported that this flagship martial arts mobile game that supports ray tracing will also be officially announced in the middle of the year. At that time, the "Warcraft" mobile game or will form an MMO double king explosion with NetEase's self-developed "Against the Water Cold Mobile Game" to debut at the NetEase 520 conference, and NetEase will also take this opportunity to further improve its layout in the advantages of MMO.
According to official information, "Against the Water Cold Mobile Game" is a "3D action adventure martial arts mobile game with a grand open world, although adapted from the same name duanyou, but because of the higher degree of freedom, more imagination, more intense sense of jianghu, martial arts fighting more bloody, more social connections of the unique game fun and experience and is completely different from the duanyou, but what will never change is the delicate and exquisite excellent picture, the vivid and vivid scenery of the jianghu, the real and perceptible atmosphere of the city and the atmosphere of the jianghu." "At the moment, the game has a high rating of 9.1 on Tap, and the player expectations are quite high.
Recently, the global MMO market has obvious signs of recovery, "The Lost Ark" released by Amazon in February this year, although it has been launched in South Korea for 18 years, the peak number of online users on Steam reached 1.32 million after it was launched in Europe and the United States, becoming the second highest game in Steam history. As the launch of new MMO titles slows down, so does the demand for high-quality MMORPGs from players around the world, and with the improvement of mobile device performance and support for next-generation effects, the end-of-hand change of classic games is more exciting than ever. This year may be the year when the MMO market ushered in an inflection point of recovery.