What is a cosmic strategy mobile game?
The above three pictures, can be seen that it is a self-propelled chess strategy gameplay and a battlefield map of the confrontation between the two armies, in the face of this game, players may feel that this is which small manufacturer came out to circle the money to do, but who can think that this is the Blizzard to launch the Warcraft IP mobile game - "Warcraft Arc Light Battle".
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When everyone thought that the Warcraft mobile game would maintain the main gameplay of the end game RPG, Blizzard made a joke to the player, saying that it was a number of Warcraft IP games, maybe the next one is a serious MMORPG, and the player expects to shrink instantly. First do not rush to this "Warcraft mobile game" to make a conclusion, after reading the specific gameplay, "Warcraft Arc Light Battle" and his predecessors in the same game, players should use a variety of companion cards to form a deck, enter the battlefield for PVE copies or PVP matches, by obtaining card upgrades to become stronger, win the victory to get rewards.
The difference is that it applies the characters and settings obtained from the Warcraft IP, such as the captain (that is, the hero in the same game, your main city) divided into five types: alliance, tribe, black stone, undead and beast, some can use a large number of spells to assist the battle, and some can quickly summon lower-cost units to quickly advance the battle line. As long as the opposing captain's health bar is cleared, it will win.
Such a "big production" mobile game was put ten years ago, coupled with exaggerated page advertising and self-confidence bursting slogans, there is no guarantee that domestic players will like it, at least European and American players still recognize this style. But now this kind of gameplay of the game has been developed by domestic and foreign manufacturers over and over again, many netizens look at it and think that "Clash Royale" out of the new map, just in response to the player's sarcastic Blizzard words "eat X can not catch up with the heat"
Such a small mobile game that lags behind the market, but also the IP of the size of Warcraft, even players who continue to support Blizzard will inevitably be disappointed. Blizzard dares to risk further collapse of the player's reputation to announce, basically there are two possibilities. Either the game has been done for a long time, because the company scandal has delayed the construction period and is only finished now; or it wants to squeeze the surplus value of the Warcraft IP again and finally make a wave.
The first is unlikely, because from the beginning of the production of the news, to the current game announcement, it is only 1 year, and it is more than enough to rush to do a small-cost mobile game, and in the conference call of Blizzard in November 2021, the official has clearly stated that in 2022, there will be a number of Warcraft mobile games that will be launched for public beta, and the construction period has not been delayed.
Want to catch a wave is the most reasonable explanation, Activision Blizzard as a listed company, in order to financial report painstakingly, "Diablo 4" this year will certainly not be born, the change of "Overwatch 2" can be seen as a large version of the 1st generation of updates, want to let players pay for the second time is not small, and the story of "World of Warcraft" can not be made up, in order to let the character into the original boss screenwriter want to blacken who will be blackened, continue can only let the IP value discount, where does the flow of water come from?
In addition to "Hearthstone", a number of Warcraft IP mobile games look very good, if they can stand the best, if not, to win in quantity can also transition 2022 to the past, "Warcraft Arc Light Battle" after the announcement, Activision Blizzard's stock price stopped falling, some rise. But players do not care about stocks, only care about whether the quality of the game has reached expectations, according to the current point of view, this batch of mobile games has not yet been launched has been abandoned by players.
I don't know if Microsoft will regret its decision to acquire Activision Blizzard when it sees the newly released Warcraft IP mobile game like this.
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