In the early morning of March 8, Blizzard announced that the mobile game of the Warcraft IP will be announced in May.
It's hard not to think of Riot President Kautik quitting Coca-Cola's board and planning to "put more time into work" before rioting is acquired.
Inadequacies and conspiracies
When Microsoft's acquisition rioted, Uncle Monster talked to everyone about The Kidick, making money is a ghost talent, and it is even if you engage in games.
Still taking the previous "no mobile phone" as an example, "Diablo: Immortal" although many media have praised and said that this is the "taste of darkness", but still can't stop the game in a way that is visible to the naked eye.
Activision and Blizzard are one company, but they are always two systems.
It was too early for Kautik to contact Activision, so he could use means to make Activision completely become a private property that matched his ideas; Blizzard, a company that had been a pillar of Vivendi in the early years, was the only profitable game company in Vivendi at that time, so Blizzard had its own pride.
If profitability is the criterion for judging the quality of a game company's work, then why do some game companies shout about it?
It is a pity that The upper class of Kautik has resources and connections, Blizzard's top level has no confrontation method except for running, and the grass-roots employees do not have any operation space that can add interest to the game except execution.
If you want to ask "COD" how to explain the annual sales of "COD", then I can only answer that "Last America 2" still buys a lot, and the games made by "psychopaths" are not the same.
I like a sentence from Yuan Highway: IP is in hand, the world I have!
Mobile game prediction
Through many inquiries and gossip, Uncle Monster learned that this "Warcraft" mobile game is likely to be a tower defense game.
Throughout "Warcraft" and "World of Warcraft", Blizzard has never taken the initiative to do tower defense games, and the tower defense that can be linked to "Warcraft", I believe that many people first think of the "Warcraft" RPG map.
One thing that has to be mentioned here is that although the Warcraft RPG maps have their own authors, the copyright of the maps is always Blizzard.
That's right, the copyright of the map you made using the "Warcraft Map Editor" automatically belongs to Blizzard, otherwise there would be no previous Blizzard suing the V Society for DOTA2 infringement.
And this time, if the Warcraft mobile game is going to be a tower defense game, then we can guess from several goals:
At present, in the RPG maps that are popular and have been famous for a long time on the official Warcraft battle platform, the maps of Terran Invincible, Knife Circle TD, Green Loop Circle, and Legion War 5 are all ranked on the top, so the possibility of taking these tower defense gameplay as the model will be relatively large.
Secondly, the above RPG maps are only more popular in China, and Blizzard more or less takes into account the global market when doing mobile games.
So, Uncle Monster remembered one of the most popular international TD maps I had played, "BurbenogTd", and "FOOTMEN", which was introduced by Chinese (Quartet, Interstellar 2 also has the same name and gameplay map); these two maps are also very likely to be taken out and refurbished into the core gameplay of the Warcraft mobile game.
（BurbenogTd）
Note: In this last paragraph, you basically can't find relevant content on the Internet, because foreign RPG maps are rarely popular and recorded in China, and the relevant information about BurbenogTd comes from the personal memory and private reserves of Uncle 4399 Monster.
Is it Thunder or God?
If this Warcraft mobile game is really a simple and easy-to-use tower defense game like the above, then I believe it has the potential to become a blockbuster game.
Because almost all Warcraft RPT TD maps have excellent social mechanics, you can't even start a game with 4 people.
From this point of view, this type of mobile game has captured the pain points of domestic players at the beginning.
But this is a game from Kautik's last term in office, and with diablo: Immortal's lessons, it's hard to say what exactly the game will be made.
Activision Blizzard was originally a cash cow for Courtick, and he wasn't happy about the company being acquired; in this case, it didn't make sense for him not to plant a thunderbolt on Microsoft.
It should be known that when Kautik got the riot from Vivendi, he relied on a trick to "hide the sky and cross the sea", first selling all the riot shares, and then taking advantage of Vivendi's intention to buy back more shares with others.
If Kautik had intended to repeat the trick, all he had to do now was turn the riot into a mess and buy it back when the time was ripe.
If so, then whether it is "Overwatch 2" or "COD" or "Warcraft" mobile games, it is very dangerous, after all, the quality of the game is not "bottomed".